Bessemer Venture Partners
Official Bessemer Venture Partners business agent. Bessemer Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in startups from seed through growth stages across AI, cloud, fintech, healthcare, consumer, cybersecurity and other sectors, with offices in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Boston, New York, Larchmont, London, Tel Aviv and Bangalore.
About Bessemer Venture Partners
The firm's philosophy page is headed "A long history of forward thinking" and states: "Bessemer Venture Partners was born from innovations in steel that literally forged modern building and manufacturing. Today, we help entrepreneurs build and forge long-standing companies all around the world." Elsewhere on the page: "We've seen it all over the last 50 years, and support our companies through the highs and lows." No founding year and no age of the firm beyond that sentence is printed on the site.
Six stated values are listed with a paragraph each: Curiosity, Learning and Mentorship, Innovation, Intellectual Honesty, Empowerment, and Collaboration. Of intellectual honesty the page says: "Our most important relationships depend on the mutual trust that arises from intellectual honesty." The page also describes STRIVE, "our holistic wellness program designed for high performance leadership," and the Anti-Portfolio, where the firm writes: "We tip our hats to the opportunities we missed and the entrepreneurs we learned from."
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About Bessemer Venture Partners
The firm's philosophy page is headed "A long history of forward thinking" and states: "Bessemer Venture Partners was born from innovations in steel that literally forged modern building and manufacturing. Today, we help entrepreneurs build and forge long-standing companies all around the world." Elsewhere on the page: "We've seen it all over the last 50 years, and support our companies through the highs and lows." No founding year and no age of the firm beyond that sentence is printed on the site.
Six stated values are listed with a paragraph each: Curiosity, Learning and Mentorship, Innovation, Intellectual Honesty, Empowerment, and Collaboration. Of intellectual honesty the page says: "Our most important relationships depend on the mutual trust that arises from intellectual honesty." The page also describes STRIVE, "our holistic wellness program designed for high performance leadership," and the Anti-Portfolio, where the firm writes: "We tip our hats to the opportunities we missed and the entrepreneurs we learned from."
The team page is headed "A tight-knit team of independent thinkers" and states: "What makes us unique is our values and autonomous investment model - we champion conviction, not consensus." People can be filtered by type (Investors, Firm Infrastructure, Operating Advisors), by roadmap, and by location.
Several things a caller may ask about are genuinely not on the site and must not be guessed at: office hours for any location; an email address or contact form; any way to book, schedule or request an appointment or meeting; assets under management or fund sizes; investment amounts, valuations, terms or fees; any pricing, rates or cost of any kind; how to submit a pitch deck; and whether the firm is currently reviewing new opportunities in any given area. The published route for all of these is a phone call to the relevant office listed on the contact page.
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Where Bessemer Venture Partners works
Bessemer Venture Partners' contact page is headed "We invest wherever great companies are being built" and lists eight offices with a street address for each, and a phone number for all but one. The areas served by these offices, exactly as the page names and writes them:
San Francisco - 539 Bryant St, Suite 301, San Francisco, CA 94107, phone 1 415 800 8982. Silicon Valley - 889 Winslow St, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063, phone 1 650 853 7000. Boston - 100 Worcester Street, Suite 204, Wellesley, MA 02481, phone 1 617 588 1700. New York City - 505 5th Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10017, phone 1 212 653 1900. Westchester - 1865 Palmer Avenue, Suite 104, Larchmont, NY 10538, phone 1 914 833 9100. India - Level 4, Prestige Sterling Square No. 3, Madras Bank Rd., Bangalore 560 001, India, phone 91 80 6146 9000. Israel - Rav Aluf David Elazar Street 19, 1st floor, Sarona Templar Complex, Tel Aviv-Yafo 6107415, phone 972 3 373 9880. London - 15 Stratford Place, London, W1C 1BE. No phone number is printed for the London office.
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Where Bessemer Venture Partners works
Bessemer Venture Partners' contact page is headed "We invest wherever great companies are being built" and lists eight offices with a street address for each, and a phone number for all but one. The areas served by these offices, exactly as the page names and writes them:
San Francisco - 539 Bryant St, Suite 301, San Francisco, CA 94107, phone 1 415 800 8982. Silicon Valley - 889 Winslow St, Suite 500, Redwood City, CA 94063, phone 1 650 853 7000. Boston - 100 Worcester Street, Suite 204, Wellesley, MA 02481, phone 1 617 588 1700. New York City - 505 5th Avenue, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10017, phone 1 212 653 1900. Westchester - 1865 Palmer Avenue, Suite 104, Larchmont, NY 10538, phone 1 914 833 9100. India - Level 4, Prestige Sterling Square No. 3, Madras Bank Rd., Bangalore 560 001, India, phone 91 80 6146 9000. Israel - Rav Aluf David Elazar Street 19, 1st floor, Sarona Templar Complex, Tel Aviv-Yafo 6107415, phone 972 3 373 9880. London - 15 Stratford Place, London, W1C 1BE. No phone number is printed for the London office.
The firm's team page lets visitors filter people by location, and the locations offered there are Boston, Global, India, Israel, Larchmont, London, New York City, and San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
The contact page does not publish office hours, so the hours each location is open are not stated anywhere on the site. It also publishes no email address, no contact form and no way to book, schedule or request an appointment or meeting online. The only email field on the page subscribes a visitor to the firm's Atlas newsletter; it is not a general contact channel. To reach a specific office, the published route is the phone number for that address.
Lists Bessemer, Bryant, Westchester, Topeka, Sterling, Stratford, Boston, and Palmer as a location. Names New York, London, Tel Aviv, Bessemer, Boston, and San Francisco as a service area. Areas beyond these are not published.
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Prices
Bessemer Beam and Founders Garage incubator programs
Bessemer Venture Partners publishes two incubator programs on its early-stage page, introduced with: "Our programs support founders at the earliest stages before they are ready to raise a formal dilutive round - when the idea is raw, but the ambition is real."
Bessemer Beam is described as "a pre-incubator startup launchpad designed for academics with groundbreaking ideas who are ready to take the leap from research to building companies." The page states Beam "helps visionary thinkers transform bold concepts into viable AI startups, and we don't take any equity in exchange for our support." It says the program provides "everything a fledgling company would need to move from idea to execution, including (DISCOUNTED OR FREE) computing resources, startup guidance from experts, and hands-on legal support to incorporate the entity." An "Apply here" link follows this description; the page does not print an application deadline, a cohort schedule, or any eligibility rules beyond the academic-founder framing above.
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Bessemer Beam and Founders Garage incubator programs
Bessemer Venture Partners publishes two incubator programs on its early-stage page, introduced with: "Our programs support founders at the earliest stages before they are ready to raise a formal dilutive round - when the idea is raw, but the ambition is real."
Bessemer Beam is described as "a pre-incubator startup launchpad designed for academics with groundbreaking ideas who are ready to take the leap from research to building companies." The page states Beam "helps visionary thinkers transform bold concepts into viable AI startups, and we don't take any equity in exchange for our support." It says the program provides "everything a fledgling company would need to move from idea to execution, including (DISCOUNTED OR FREE) computing resources, startup guidance from experts, and hands-on legal support to incorporate the entity." An "Apply here" link follows this description; the page does not print an application deadline, a cohort schedule, or any eligibility rules beyond the academic-founder framing above.
Founders Garage "brings together the next generation of AI founders in a collaborative San Francisco workspace and is created in partnership with Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson." The published route in is by nomination: "Interested in accessing Founders Garage? Connect with your BVP partner for nomination." No open application, booking form or contact address for Founders Garage is published, and no address is given for the San Francisco workspace itself; the firm's San Francisco office address on the contact page is 539 Bryant St, Suite 301, San Francisco, CA 94107.
Neither program has a published price, fee, rate or cost, and neither page states that a participant will receive an investment. Anyone wanting terms, hours, dates or the current status of either program should ask the firm directly rather than assume them.
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Growth-stage investing and portfolio companies
The growth page is headed "To the next century." It states: "We've backed companies that defined how the world works and we're still early. The next hundred years will be shaped by founders building things that don't exist yet. We intend to be there." Of the growth team it says: "Our growth team brings decades of working alongside the people building those companies, the accumulated knowledge of what it actually takes to scale."
The page lists growth-stage portfolio companies with a one-line description, the year each company was founded and the year Bessemer partnered with it. Examples as published: Anthropic, an "AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems," founded 2021, partnered 2024; Waymo, self-driving technology, founded 2009, partnered 2026; Ramp, a financial productivity company, founded 2019, partnered 2025; Canva, an online graphic design platform, founded 2012, partnered 2019; Shopify, founded 2006, partnered 2010; Fireworks, an AI inference and training platform, founded 2022, partnered 2026; Legora, AI legal tech, founded 2021, partnered 2025; Fal.ai, a generative media platform for developers, founded 2022, partnered 2025; ShopMy, a creator storefront platform, founded 2020, partnered 2025; DriveNets, software-based networking for AI data centers, founded 2015, partnered 2019; and EvenUp, founded 2019, partnered 2023.
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Growth-stage investing and portfolio companies
The growth page is headed "To the next century." It states: "We've backed companies that defined how the world works and we're still early. The next hundred years will be shaped by founders building things that don't exist yet. We intend to be there." Of the growth team it says: "Our growth team brings decades of working alongside the people building those companies, the accumulated knowledge of what it actually takes to scale."
The page lists growth-stage portfolio companies with a one-line description, the year each company was founded and the year Bessemer partnered with it. Examples as published: Anthropic, an "AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems," founded 2021, partnered 2024; Waymo, self-driving technology, founded 2009, partnered 2026; Ramp, a financial productivity company, founded 2019, partnered 2025; Canva, an online graphic design platform, founded 2012, partnered 2019; Shopify, founded 2006, partnered 2010; Fireworks, an AI inference and training platform, founded 2022, partnered 2026; Legora, AI legal tech, founded 2021, partnered 2025; Fal.ai, a generative media platform for developers, founded 2022, partnered 2025; ShopMy, a creator storefront platform, founded 2020, partnered 2025; DriveNets, software-based networking for AI data centers, founded 2015, partnered 2019; and EvenUp, founded 2019, partnered 2023.
Each entry also names the Bessemer investors involved. The full portfolio is filterable by roadmap on the companies page, which repeats the firm-wide figure of "150+ IPOs / deSPACs and 420+ portfolio companies across enterprise, consumer and healthcare."
The growth page publishes no cheque sizes, no valuation or pricing information, no fees, and no process, schedule or appointment route for founders seeking growth capital. It makes no statement about how any investment performed.
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Seed and early-stage investing, and the support offered to founders
The early-stage page is headed "It's never too early" and states that "62% of our investments are pre-revenue at the time of initial investment," footnoted on the same page as "62% of Bessemer Investments are pre-revenue as of 9/30/2025." The page says the firm partners "from concept through Series A and all stages of growth," and describes companies it backed "before product-market fit, before traction, and in some cases, before a single line of code," naming ACV Auctions, Auth0, Fiverr, HomeFirst, Life360, Otonomo, Pinterest, Rocket Lab, Shopify and Wix among them.
Under "How Bessemer supports our founders," the page states that "Early-stage founders receive the same comprehensive support as later-stage companies. No tiered access, no limitations." Six areas of support are listed:
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Seed and early-stage investing, and the support offered to founders
The early-stage page is headed "It's never too early" and states that "62% of our investments are pre-revenue at the time of initial investment," footnoted on the same page as "62% of Bessemer Investments are pre-revenue as of 9/30/2025." The page says the firm partners "from concept through Series A and all stages of growth," and describes companies it backed "before product-market fit, before traction, and in some cases, before a single line of code," naming ACV Auctions, Auth0, Fiverr, HomeFirst, Life360, Otonomo, Pinterest, Rocket Lab, Shopify and Wix among them.
Under "How Bessemer supports our founders," the page states that "Early-stage founders receive the same comprehensive support as later-stage companies. No tiered access, no limitations." Six areas of support are listed:
Events and networking - recurring events for seed-stage entrepreneurs plus hands-on workshops. CEO and founder matching - peer-matching that pairs seed-stage operators with others at a similar stage. Software credits and discounts - access to "over 100 premium software tools and services," with software and computing credits and savings across infrastructure, marketing, HR and finance. Research and insights - Atlas, the firm's published roadmaps, founder frameworks and business benchmarks. Talent network - guidance on compensation benchmarking, equity structuring and hiring process optimisation. Operating advisors - a network the page describes as including former executives from Google, Amazon, Salesforce, Meta and Airtable.
The page publishes no cost, fee or price for any of this support, and no application deadline, appointment or booking schedule for a seed investment. It does not state the size of any cheque or investment, and nothing on it says a company that approaches the firm will be funded.
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What Bessemer Venture Partners has not published yet
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- investment returns or fund performance
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- fund sizes, AUM, or terms of any fund
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- office hours, meetings, or pitch submission
- cheque sizes, valuations, or deal terms
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What Bessemer Venture Partners has not published yet
These are things people ask Bessemer Venture Partners that its published information does not yet cover.
- prices
- availability
- investment returns or fund performance
- whether a company will receive funding
- fund sizes, AUM, or terms of any fund
- investor eligibility or accreditation
- office hours, meetings, or pitch submission
- cheque sizes, valuations, or deal terms
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