Venture Capital
Bessemer Venture Partners
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.
519 portfolio companies
519 publish APIs here
13 properties
Portfolio Strength
across 518 profiled portfolio companies on the network
47
top-rated API companies
13 exemplar · 34 strong
100
agent-ready companies
8 agent-native · 92 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite
emerging
24.0
Agent-Readiness
human-only
13.0
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 519 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 519 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Zapier, SendGrid, Fal.ai, Anthropic, Storwize.
Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their
API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.
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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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- Cloud
- Developer Tools
- Cybersecurity
- Fintech
- Healthcare
- United States
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- type: Podcast
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url: https://jobs.bvp.com/
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- "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
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