Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is one of the oldest and largest venture capital firms in the world, founded in 1911 out of the fortune of steel magnate Henry Phipps and headquartered in San Francisco, California. With more than $20 billion in assets under management and investment teams in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv, Bessemer invests globally across seed, early, and growth stages, and runs a dedicated private equity buyout arm, BVP Forge. The firm invests across artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud and infrastructure, developer tools, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare and biotech, consumer, marketplaces, vertical software, data, deep tech and defense, and crypto/web3. Bessemer has backed transformative companies including Shopify, Twilio, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, Toast, ServiceTitan, PagerDuty, Auth0, Box, and Canva, and is known for publishing its "Anti- Portfolio" of missed opportunities, its Atlas research roadmaps, and its cloud/state-of-the-industry benchmark reports. Investing out of its 12th early-stage fund (a $3.85B vehicle), Bessemer was ranked among the largest venture firms by five-year fundraising. This profile tracks Bessemer's identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.
Bessemer Venture Partners has 517 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 203 (39%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 314 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Twilio, Anthropic, Ada, SendGrid, LaunchDarkly.
Portfolio on the Network
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
Exemplar22Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
The 457 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by
Bessemer Venture Partners, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from
the catalog — nothing here is written.
A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the
“Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own
coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.
What this cohort publishes
Artifact
This cohort
Catalog
Difference
MCP server (any)
19%
15%
+4
MCP server (first-party)
19%
13%
+6
Agent Skills
0%
0%
0
OAuth scopes
14%
12%
+2
Security
98%
98%
0
Arazzo workflows
4%
2%
+2
Governance rules
16%
18%
-2
mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.
This roster declares 517 members; 512
resolve to a provider in the catalog and 457 carry a score
(89%). The figures above describe the scored members only. Coverage caveat. 396 of 457 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of
2 November 2026, across 37080
providers, using the same computation served by the
APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of
5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.
aid: bessemer-venture-partners
name: Bessemer Venture Partners
description: >-
Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) is one of the oldest and largest venture
capital firms in the world, founded in 1911 out of the fortune of steel
magnate Henry Phipps and headquartered in San Francisco, California. With more
than $20 billion in assets under management and investment teams in San
Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv,
Bessemer invests globally across seed, early, and growth stages, and runs a
dedicated private equity buyout arm, BVP Forge. The firm invests across
artificial intelligence and machine learning, cloud and infrastructure,
developer tools, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare and biotech, consumer,
marketplaces, vertical software, data, deep tech and defense, and crypto/web3.
Bessemer has backed transformative companies including Shopify, Twilio,
Pinterest, LinkedIn, Yelp, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, Toast, ServiceTitan,
PagerDuty, Auth0, Box, and Canva, and is known for publishing its "Anti-
Portfolio" of missed opportunities, its Atlas research roadmaps, and its
cloud/state-of-the-industry benchmark reports. Investing out of its 12th
early-stage fund (a $3.85B vehicle), Bessemer was ranked among the largest
venture firms by five-year fundraising. This profile tracks Bessemer's
identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
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x-category: Venture Capital
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tags:
- Venture Capital
- Seed
- Early Stage
- Growth Equity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud
- Developer Tools
- Cybersecurity
- Fintech
- Healthcare
- United States
- Global
url: >-
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bessemer-venture-partners/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
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- type: Website
url: https://www.bvp.com/
- type: Portfolio
url: https://www.bvp.com/companies
- type: Portfolio
url: portfolio/bessemer-venture-partners-portfolio.yml
- type: Team
url: https://www.bvp.com/team
- type: Team
url: team/bessemer-venture-partners-team.yml
- type: InvestmentThesis
url: https://www.bvp.com/atlas
- type: Blog
url: https://www.bvp.com/atlas
- type: Podcast
url: https://www.bvp.com/podcasts
- type: Jobs
url: https://jobs.bvp.com/
- type: Contact
url: https://www.bvp.com/contact
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bessemer-venture-partners
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/BessemerVP
- type: Crunchbase
url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bessemer-venture-partners
- type: Features
data:
- "Stage: Seed, Early, Growth (plus BVP Forge private equity buyout)"
- "Sectors: AI & ML, cloud, developer tools, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare, biotech, consumer, marketplaces, vertical software, data, deep tech & defense, crypto/web3"
- "Geography: Global (US, Europe, Israel, India)"
- "AUM: $20B+ (self-reported)"
- "Founded: 1911"
- "HQ: San Francisco, CA"
- "Offices: San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, Tel Aviv"
- "Current fund: 12th early-stage fund, $3.85B (2022); BVP Forge, $780M (2022)"
sources:
- https://www.bvp.com/about
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_Venture_Partners
updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
url: http://apisjson.org
- FN: Bessemer Venture Partners
url: https://www.bvp.com/
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