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Bessemer

Venture capitalSan Francisco & Menlo Park, US
The downtown San Francisco skyline from Potrero Hill
Bessemer is based in San Francisco & Menlo Park, US. Pictured: San Francisco.San Francisco — photo by Andreas Praefcke, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Type
Venture capital
Headquarters
San Francisco & Menlo Park, US
Founded
1911 (first tech investment in 1974)

About

Bessemer Venture Partners traces its roots to 1911, making it one of the oldest venture firms in the world; today it is a generalist, multi-stage investor across software, fintech and healthcare.

Companies backed on our watchlist

Before you read anything into this

Profiling Bessemer here is informational, not a recommendation. Almost all venture funds only accept institutional or high-net-worth limited partners with minimums far beyond most individual investors — see our guide to venture funds for how that actually works.

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What a venture fund is, and why you probably cannot invest in one

A venture fund raises a pool of capital from limited partners — pension funds, endowments, family offices, sometimes wealthy individuals — and invests it in startups over roughly a decade. The managers earn a management fee on the committed capital plus a share of the profits, typically around 20%, once the fund returns its investors' money. Minimum commitments almost always run into the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars, and most funds are closed to new investors between fundraises.

That matters for how you read this profile. Seeing a well-known fund in a company's round tells you a professional investor did diligence and accepted the price — useful information. It does not give you a way to participate on the same terms. The realistic routes for an individual are the ones covered elsewhere on this site: authorised crowdfunding platforms, syndicates, or a direct angel cheque.

Frequently asked questions

Can I invest alongside Bessemer?
Almost certainly not directly. Funds like this generally raise from institutional and high-net-worth limited partners under private-placement rules, not the general public. The realistic routes into early-stage deals are regulated equity crowdfunding, a syndicate, or a retail-accessible venture fund — see our guide to the four routes.
Does Bessemer backing a company mean it's a good investment?
No. A fund backing a round is a signal about that fund's own thesis, not an endorsement we make. We have not done diligence on either the fund or the companies it backs.
Where does this information come from?
Compiled from public reporting (fund websites, Crunchbase, PitchBook, press coverage) as of the review date above. Fund details — AUM, focus, active funds — change; verify anything load-bearing against the fund's own site.