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What does Bessemer Venture Partners invest in?
Bessemer Venture Partners invests most often at Series B and Series A (46% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as B2b2c, Wellbeing and Digital-health.
Bessemer Venture Partners highlights
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139 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series B and Series A: 46% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 78 rounds, median $8.0M
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83 exits from the portfolio
What they do
Global in reach and decentralized by design, Bessemer Venture Partners backs founders in any sector, from seed to growth and beyond, with any check size.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $200K – $100M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries BGrowthPre-IPO
- Sectors
- B2b2cWellbeingDigital-health
- Based in
- San Francisco, United States
- Cold pitches
- Not stated
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first1,034 appearances
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115 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
Named by the firm itself, on a filing, its Form ADV or its company registration18 named
ARAdam Ralph FisherDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
ARAlex Robert FerraraDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
BRBrian R. FeinsteinDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
BBByron Bauer DeeterDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
BBByron BeeterExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
DJDavid Jordan CowanDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
EFEthan F. KurzweilDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
JBJacob BukhsbaumChief Compliance Officer and CounseliForm ADV
JSJeremy Seth LevineDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
RKRichard Kent BennettDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
RKRichard Kent Bennett Jr.Director of the general partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
RPRobert Paul GoodmanDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
SRSameer R. DholakiaExecutive Officer, PromoteriFiling they signed
S(Sandra (nmn) GrippoDirector and Chief Operating Officer of the general partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
SFSandy F. GrippoCFO of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
SBSara ByrneChief Financial Officer of the general partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
SSScott Sherman RingGeneral Counsel and Chief Strategy Officer of the general partner of the General PartneriFiling they signed
SHStephen H.C. KrausDirector of the general partner of the General Partner.iFiling they signed
We also hold 76 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What the register says
From the firm's own filings with the SEC, which it must file accurately by law
$20Bassets it managesOct 2026
8+funds on filenumbered funds in its name
Registeredinvestment adviserfull reporting to the SEC
- Legal name
- DEER Management Co. LLC
- SEC number
- CRD 159279
Funds on its Form ADV
30 private funds, $18B in gross assets · filed Jun 2024
Venture 26Private equity 4
- Bessemer Venture Partners XII Institutional L.P.Venture144 investors$2.8B
- Bessemer Venture Partners IX L.P.Venture77 investors$1.9B
- Bessemer Venture Partners VIII Institutional L.P.Venture43 investors$1.7B
- Bessemer Venture Partners IX Institutional L.P.Venture40 investors$1.6B
- Bessemer Venture Partners XI Institutional L.P.Venture137 investors$1.4B
- Bessemer Venture Partners VIII L.P.Venture81 investors$1.4B
- Bessemer Venture Partners X L.P.Venture62 investors$1.4B
- Bessemer Venture Partners X Institutional L.P.Venture51 investors$1.3B
- Bessemer Venture Partners XI L.P.Venture62 investors$917M
- Bessemer Venture Partners XII L.P.Venture1 investor$876M
And 20 more on the filing.
Who backs their funds
2 LPs on record in Bessemer Venture Partners's funds
- Committed
- $200M
- Funds
- 3
- Vintages
- 2023 to 2024
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: the pension's own report, latest Mar 2026.
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS)2 funds$150M
Fund Vintage Committed Bessemer Venture Partners XII Institutional 2024 $115M BVP Forge Institutional 2023 $35M - California State Teachers Retirement System2 funds$50M
Fund Vintage Committed Bessemer Venture Partners XII 2024 $30M BVP Forge Institutional 2023 $20M
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
0 of 2 we have independently watched raise
BVP ForgeCloud Index
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed83 in all
Affirmed NetworksBought by Microsoft$1.4BMar 2020
Millennial MediaBought by AOL$238MSept 2015
TaxiForSure.comBought by Ola$200MMar 2015
XtimeBought by Cox Automotive$325MNov 2014
SilverskyBought by BAE Systems$233MOct 2014
Mojave NetworksBought by SophosUndisclosedOct 2014
HadaptBought by TeradataUndisclosedJul 2014
TileraBought by EZChip$130MJul 2014
Grow MobileBought by Perion$42MJun 2014
DropcamBought by Nest Labs$555MJun 2014
Summit MicroelectronicsBought by Qualcomm IncorporatedUndisclosedJun 2014
VotizenBought by BrigadeUndisclosedJun 2014
Skybox ImagingBought by Google$500MJun 2014
Defense.NetBought by F5 NetworksUndisclosedMay 2014
The latest 20 here. An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.