# Bogomil Balkansky

> Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the world's most storied venture capital firms, where he focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure, developer tools, DevOps, observability, and enterprise SaaS. Born in Bulgaria after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he studied mathematics at Cornell University before earning an MBA from Stanford GSB. He spent eight years at VMware growing server virtualization revenue 10x and expanding the customer base from 5,000 to 300,000, was an early employee at Bebop (acquired by Google for $397M), then led go-to-market for Google Cloud's Recruiting Solutions. He joined Sequoia in 2020 and has backed companies including Vanta, Wiz, Temporal, Chainguard, Pydantic, and Mutiny. Known for his intuition-driven investment style and deep connections across the Bulgarian and Silicon Valley tech ecosystems.

- **Role:** Partner at Sequoia Capital
- **Organizations:** Sequoia Capital, VMware, Google, Bebop, McKinsey & Company, Siebel Systems, CrossWeave
- **From:** Bulgaria
- **Nationality:** Bulgarian-American
- **Education:** Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics, Cornell University, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Grew VMware server virtualization product revenue 10x over 8 years, Expanded VMware customer base from 5,000 to 300,000 customers, Early employee at Bebop, acquired by Google for $397 million

## Career timeline

- **1990s** — Left Bulgaria after the fall of the Berlin Wall to study in the United States
- **Late 1990s** — Began career at McKinsey & Company as a management consultant
- **Early 2000s** — Joined Siebel Systems in product management, working on pioneering CRM software
- **Early 2000s** — Worked at CrossWeave, an application integration startup
- **2006-2014** — Senior Vice President at VMware; grew server virtualization revenue 10x, expanded customer base from 5,000 to 300,000
- **2014-2015** — Early employee at Bebop.co startup
- **2015** — Bebop acquired by Google for $397 million
- **2015-2018** — Vice President at Google leading go-to-market for Recruiting Solutions in Google Cloud
- **2020** — Joined Sequoia Capital as Partner
- **2020-present** — Backed portfolio companies including Vanta, Wiz, Temporal, Chainguard, Pydantic, Mutiny, and Cyera Security

## Achievements

- Grew VMware server virtualization product revenue 10x over 8 years
- Expanded VMware customer base from 5,000 to 300,000 customers
- Early employee at Bebop, acquired by Google for $397 million
- Partner at Sequoia Capital, one of the world's top venture firms
- Backed 17+ active portfolio companies including unicorns Wiz and Vanta
- Founded and hosts Sequoia Open Source Fellows program
- Board member of Telerik, Bulgaria's most successful IT company
- Recognized as one of Silicon Valley's most influential Bulgarians

## Latest updates

- **2026-01** — Commented on Sequoia's seed funding for Sandstone, an AI legal technology startup, noting legal tech is shaping up to be a very large software market
- **2025-10** — Announced Sequoia's latest seed and venture funds, highlighting AI's transformation of security and DevOps
- **2025-06** — Co-authored article with Charlie Curnin about Sequoia's partnership with Traversal AI, focusing on developer tools and observability
- **2025-05** — Portfolio company Quantive (formerly Gtmhub) exited

## Links

- Website: https://sequoiacap.com/people/bogomil-balkansky/
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/balkansky
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/BogieBalkansky
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bbalkansky/

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Last updated: 2026-05-09