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Ferrara rejoins Bessemer Venture Partners
January 17, 2013: 12:21 PM ET
In venture capital, you can go home again.
FORTUNE -- Alex Ferrara has agreed to rejoin Bessemer Venture Partners, Fortune has learned. He will work as a partner focused on tech opportunities, out of the venture capital firm's Larchmont, N.Y. office.
Ferrara previously worked at BVP between April 2005 and February 2011, later joining Millennium Technology Value Partners as a partner. He quietly parted ways with Millennium at the end of last year, after his primary, early-stage investing experience didn't quite translate to Millennium's secondaries-focused and late-stage business.
While with Bessemer the first time around, Ferrara's deals included Shopify, SelectMinds, OMGPop (acquired by Zynga) and Yodle.
Bessemer currently is investing out of a $1.6 billion fund raised in 2010.
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