Toast

VC firm founded in 2012 that makes concentrated, long-term investments in technology-enabled businesses globally.

With more than 135 IPOs and 200 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr and Toast and has more than $20 billion of assets under management.

Aims to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes our partners and portfolio companies proud, as they build a unique, global investment platform.

Invests across all stages in companies building technologies modernizing our large old-world, physical industries.

Led by investors including Thomas Lehrman, Teamworthy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise software and software-enabled services businesses.

Kent is a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge office. Before his career in venture capital, Kent was a creative executive for an entertainment production company, where he developed and sold original material including a network television pilot and a feature film. He began his career with Bain & Co., where he worked on projects in industries spanning IT, retail, consumer products, healthcare, and biotech. Kent earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and graduated summa cum laude in systems engineering from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar.