Bessemer Venture Partners
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Bessemer Venture Partners backs entrepreneurs building transformative technology companies across AI, cloud, cybersecurity, fintech, healthtech, and consumer sectors. They focus on early‑stage to growth opportunities, leveraging deep domain expertise and a global network to help founders scale from seed to IPO. Their thesis emphasizes long‑lasting, category‑defining businesses that can forge new markets or dominate existing ones.
San Francisco, United StatesFounded 1911250+≈ $20B AUM
Where they invest
Geography
Portfolio footprintHover a country to explore
- United States of America
- 69.5%
- United Kingdom
- 4.6%
- Canada
- 3.1%
- Germany
- 3.1%
- Israel
- 2.3%
- Other
- 10.3%
Darker countries represent a larger share of the portfolio.
What they back
Industries
- Enterprise Software
- 58.8%
- Artificial Intelligence
- 45.8%
- Data & Analytics
- 38.9%
- Financial Technology
- 15.3%
- Developer Tools
- 14.5%
- Applications
- 12.2%
% of all portfolio companies. Industry categories can overlap.
Stages
Stage indicator
Stage agnostic
Stages · 29 deals
- Pre-Seed
- 1 (3%)
- Seed
- 5 (17%)
- Series A
- 6 (21%)
- Series B
- 7 (24%)
- Series C+
- 10 (34%)
- Unknown / other
- 0 (0%)
Fund details
Funds
BVP XII
Vintage 2022 • $3.9B
BVP Forge I
Vintage 2022 • $780M
BVP Forge II
Vintage 2025 • $1B
India Fund II
Vintage 2025 • $350M