Bessemer Venture Partners is a San Francisco-based venture capital company with investments in companies ranging from seed-stage to growth. The company has over $4 billion invested in the companies in its portfolio. It has other offices in places such as New York City, Boston, Israel, and India.
As of 2019, the company has raised ten venture capital funds, four of which were over $1 billion. It is known for backing seed-stage, Series A, and Series B companies. Bessemer Venture Partners state that they intentionally invest early in a company so that they can see it through its growth stage.
Notable investments that the company have made include Pinterest, LinkedIn, Blue Apron, Shopify, and Fiverr.
The company has created a fellowship program for college students. The Bessemer Fellowship Program places qualified college students with growing technology companies in the Bay Area. The students work at said company for eight to 12 weeks where they can learn skills and the operations that take place in start-up companies.
Timeline
Funded Companies
Symantec is a Mountain View, California-based cybersecurity company providing security, storage, and systems management solutions for consumers and enterprises.
A software company offering a suite of business intelligence and analytics products and services.
Skype is a communications company, a subsidiary of Microsoft, and developer of video chat and voice calls over the internet founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis and Toivo Annus.
HashiCorp is a software company providing tools for developers and security professionals to provision, secure and run infrastructure for distributed application for organizations.
Kajeet is a McLean, Virginia-based wireless communications and telecommunications company delivering products and solutions for secured and controlled wireless connections.
VLocity was a San Francisco-based developer of cloud CRM apps founded in 2014 by James Ramsey, Mark Armenante, Craig Ramsey, David Schmaier, Jeff Amann and Young Sohn.
A cloud communications platform for building SMS, Voice & Messaging applications on an API built for a global scale that was founded in 2008 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Distil Networks was an American cybersecurity company founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
A company operating an online marketplace for products such as mobile devices, electronics, apparel and accessories.
Twitch is a live streaming video platform and community for gamers.
Spire Global Inc. is a space to cloud data analytics company utilizing satellites to provide maritime, aviation, and weather tracking.
A cloud content management company. It was founded in 2005 and has headquarters located in Redwood City, California.
A software company offering a platform for data analysts and data engineers to transform data into actionable business insights.
Rigetti Quantum Computing is a quantum computing company that was founded by Chad Rigetti.
Shopify is an Ottawa-based cloud-based, multi-channel commerce platform designed for small and medium-sized businesses, founded in 2004 by Tobias Lütke.
ScaleFactor is an Austin, Texas-based SaaS company offering services in bookkeeping and accounting.
Canva is a company operating as an online graphic design platform. It provides users with a drag-and-drop design tool and a library of stock photographs, graphic elements and fonts.
An American global semiconductor and telecommunications company.
Fabric Insurance is a Brooklyn-based digital insurance broker.
A New York City-based educational technology and artificial intelligence company founded in 2008 by Jose Ferreira.
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform for software development.
K Health is an AI-powered health app that empowers consumers with health information based on the experiences of others.
Pinterest is a photo sharing, publishing website, social media web and mobile application company.
Auth0 is an authentication and authorization service for application developers.
Decibel Therapeutics conducts inner ear research to deliver medicines for hearing and balance.
Associated investment funds
People
Ambar Bhattacharyya
Employee
Andrew Hedin
Employee
Andrew Walsh
Employee
Aneesha Raghunathan
Employee
Anna Khan
Employee
Ashley Elsner
Employee
Babak Nivi
Employee
Ben Donald
Employee
Ben Mathews
Employee
Brian Feinstein
Employee
Brian Truong
Employee
Byron Deeter
Employee
Chris Dixon
Employee
Chris Farmer
Employee
Christopher Perusse
Employee
David Cowan
Employee
David Wehrs
Employee
Ethan Kurzweil
Employee
Fred Shilmover
Employee
Gabrielle Preiser
Employee
Jason Putorti
Employee
Jeff Epstein
Employee
Jeremy Levine
Employee
Justin Label
Employee
Kent Bennett
Employee
Further reading
Bessemer Venture Partners has a brand new $1.85B fund
Kate Clark
Web
October 25, 2018
Documentaries, videos and podcasts
State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners