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Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Bessemer Venture Partners
Location Menlo Park, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
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David Cowan joined Bessemer Venture Partners As a partner in 1992.venture capitalist with Bessemer Venture Partners in Silicon Valley, David Cowan (@davidcowan) has led early stage investments in Twitch, LinkedIn, Skybox, Twilio, Blue Nile, and 20 other startups that went IPO. Cowan also co-founded three cybersecurity companies: VeriSign, Good
Technology (fka Visto), and Defense.Net. The Forbes Midas List of the top venture capitalists has included Cowan 13 times, ranking him as high as #6. Cowan wrote, directed, and performed in the acapella stage musical Lies in the Attic, which enjoyed a commercially successful run in San Jose in early 2016. He earned his BS (in C.S. and math) and his MBA degrees from Harvard University.
