Eric Benhamou
Eric Benhamou has over 40 years of experience in the IT industry, including 16 years of active venture capital experience. He founded Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) in 2004 and made active investments in early stage information technology Silicon Valley firms focused on global enterprise and telecommunications markets. In fund I, he lead investments in Swan Labs […]
Eric Buatois
Eric Buatois has 15 years of active venture capital experience, first at Sofinnova Ventures as a General Partner from 2001 until 2013 managing several funds of 250M$ and then General Partner at BGV since 2013. He is a lead investor who truly enjoys building global companies and has demonstrated experience in executing spin-offs from large […]
Anik Bose
Anik Bose has 15 years of active venture capital and corporate development experience, with particular emphasis on transaction structuring and strategic planning, including 7 years as SVP, Corporate Development at 3Com Corporation, and 10 years as General Partner at BGV. In his role as SVP, Corporate Development at 3Com he played a significant role in […]
Yashwanth Hemaraj
Yash Hemaraj is a Partner at BGV. At BGV, Yash has led/co-led several investments for BGV including Folloze, Tagnos, Macrometa, Totango and 6dbytes and assisted on Blue Cedar, Kaptivo, Drishti and Spikes/Cyberinc. He also co-founded and heads the Arka Venture Labs, an accelerator platform for India-based B2B companies to scale up globally. Yash focuses on […]
Sarah Benhamou
Sarah is part of the investment team of BGV. She is actively identifying high-quality ventures in the Europe-Israel region. Prior to BGV, Sarah gained experience with the French venture capital fund Breega. She participated in several investment opportunities in the digital sector,including deals in fintech/insurtech and big data services. Previously, she has held financial positions […]
Patrick Nicolet
Patrick Nicolet is the Founder and Managing Partner of Line Break Capital Ltd, a technology brokering company specialized in distributed computing that was launched on January 1st, 2021. Prior to that, he spent over twenty years working at Cap Gemini — including seven as a Group Executive Board member — assuming several global leadership positions. […]
Ron Sege
Ron Sege is an Operating Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV). Ron has more than 37 years of operating experience with disruptive offerings in the Enterprise IT market, in established public companies and venture-backed startups. Ron has extensive cross-border management experience, managing operations in China, UK, Continental Europe and Israel. Ron specializes in go-to-market strategy […]
Masaru Sakamoto
Masaru (Mas) Sakamoto has been with BGV since 2018 and currently serves asOperating Partner. He is a seasoned professional with a diverse background in internationalbusiness development, strategic planning, venture capital investment, newbusiness incubation, and cross-border operations. Mas has had a long-standingassociation with NEC Corporation, where he served in various leadership roles,including Group Vice President of […]