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Bessemer Venture Partners

Venture Capital

Founded 1911, now $20B+ AUM. 420+ portfolio cos, 150+ IPOs/deSPACs, 69 unicorns. Notable: Shopify, Twilio, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Toast, Twitch, DocuSign, Wix. 51 partners, 230+ team. US-based HQ + offices London, Bangalore, Tel Aviv. Partner-led, no CEO; apprenticeship model. Active in defense tech, healthcare AI, web3. $825M Century II growth fund (2021); $1B BVP Forge II (2025).

Check Size
£750K - £187.5M

Investment Thesis

Seed to growth via multi-stage portfolio. Cloud infrastructure, vertical SaaS, consumer internet, fintech, biotech, healthcare AI. Avg. check: $1-5M (seed), $15.9M (Series A), $34.3M (Series B). Global: US, UK, India, Israel. Partner-led conviction model, decentralized decision-making. Avoids: saturated consumer apps without defensibility. Strong AI/developer platform foresight.

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