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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name: Bessemer Venture Partners
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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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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
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created: '2026-07-17'
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common:
- 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/