Bessemer Venture Partners

Venture Capital

One of the oldest venture capital firms in the US, with investments in LinkedIn, Shopify, and Twilio.

Profile

Headquarters
San Francisco, US
Investments
57
Companies
25

Capital

Total Deployed
$5.4B
Lead Rounds
25

Portfolio

25 companies
Pinterest $1.5B
Public San Francisco, US

Visual discovery and bookmarking platform where users find and save ideas for recipes, home decor, fashion, travel, and more through image-based 'Pins' organized on boards, serving over 450 million monthly active users.

Canva $1.1B
Private Sydney, AU

Online graphic design platform that makes design accessible to everyone, offering an intuitive drag-and-drop editor with AI-powered Magic Studio tools used over 5 billion times.

ClickHouse $1.1B
Private San Francisco, US

Open-source columnar database management system designed for real-time analytics and AI workloads. Originally developed at Yandex and open-sourced in 2016, it became an independent company in 2021.

Toast $900M
Public Boston, US

Cloud-based restaurant management platform providing point-of-sale, digital ordering, payroll, and team management solutions. Serves over 120,000 restaurant locations across the US. Founded in Boston in 2012, Toast went public in September 2021.

Claroty $882M
Private New York, US

Claroty provides industrial cybersecurity and operational technology (OT) security solutions, protecting critical infrastructure across manufacturing, healthcare, and energy sectors.

Box $552M
Public Redwood City, United States

Box is a cloud content management and file sharing platform for businesses. The company helps organizations securely manage, share, and collaborate on content across their enterprise, serving over 100,000 businesses worldwide.

Rain $339M
Private New York, US

Rain is a global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, providing infrastructure to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly via Visa rails across 150+ countries.

Twilio $233M
Public San Francisco, United States

Cloud communications platform that provides programmable APIs for voice, SMS, video, and email, enabling developers to embed communication capabilities directly into their applications. Twilio powers customer engagement for hundreds of thousands of businesses worldwide.

Netlify $202M
Private San Francisco, United States

Netlify is a web development platform that provides hosting, continuous deployment, and serverless backend services for modern web projects. The company pioneered the Jamstack architecture, enabling developers to build faster, more secure websites.

PagerDuty $174M
Public San Francisco, US

Cloud-based incident management and digital operations platform that helps IT teams detect, triage, and resolve infrastructure and application issues in real time through intelligent alerting, on-call scheduling, and automated response orchestration.

Teleport $169M
Private Oakland, United States

Teleport is the infrastructure identity company, providing on-demand, least-privileged access to infrastructure on a foundation of cryptographic identity and zero trust. The platform integrates access management, zero trust networking, and identity security into a single solution, replacing passwords and secrets with true identity for engineers and services. Previously known as Gravitational, the company was founded by the Mailgun team (YC W11, acquired by Rackspace).

Rigetti Computing $155M
Public Berkeley, US

Rigetti Computing is a full-stack quantum computing company that designs and fabricates superconducting quantum processors, integrates them into quantum computers, and delivers access through its Quantum Cloud Services platform. The company operates the world's first dedicated quantum chip foundry.

Weave $146M
Public Lehi, US

All-in-one customer communication and payments platform for small and medium-sized healthcare businesses, serving dental, optometry, veterinary, and medical practices.

Shopify $122M
Public Ottawa, CA

E-commerce platform enabling businesses to create online stores, manage inventory, process payments, and sell across multiple channels including web, mobile, social media, and physical retail via Shopify POS, powering millions of merchants worldwide.

LinkedIn $103M
Acquired Sunnyvale, US

Professional networking platform connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. Offers tools for job searching, recruiting, content sharing, and business networking.

Truebill $84M
Acquired Silver Spring, US

Personal finance app that helps users manage subscriptions, negotiate bills, track spending, and automate savings. Founded by three brothers, it was acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion in 2021 and rebranded as Rocket Money in 2022.

ChipAgents $74M
Private San Jose, United States

ChipAgents (Alpha Design AI) is an agentic AI platform for semiconductor chip design and verification. The platform deploys coordinated AI agents that plan, reason, execute, and continuously improve across complex silicon programs, helping RTL design and verification engineers accelerate workflows by up to 10x. The company serves 80 leading semiconductor firms with multi-year licensing agreements.

ZyG $58M
Private Tel Aviv, Israel

AI-powered agentic operating system for direct-to-consumer brands. Automates customer interactions across messaging platforms including WhatsApp, Instagram, and email with autonomous AI agents. Founded by eight ironSource veterans after the company's $4.4B acquisition by Unity.

Coactive AI $44M
Private San Jose, California, United States

AI-powered platform that helps enterprises unlock insights from unstructured image and video data. Coactive's multimodal application platform enables users to search, organize, analyze, and generate metadata from visual content without requiring metadata or manual tagging.

Clever $43M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Single sign-on platform for K-12 education giving students, teachers, and staff secure access to digital learning applications through one personalized portal. Built a standardized API enabling school data systems to sync with edtech applications automatically. Used by 89,000 schools and 65% of U.S. K-12 districts.

Twitch $43M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Live streaming platform for gamers and creators, originally launched as Justin.tv in 2007. Spun off its gaming vertical as Twitch.tv in June 2011, becoming the world's leading live video platform for gaming content before Amazon's acquisition.

Avantos $35M
Private New York, US

AI-native operating system for financial institutions, designed to systematize client data, onboarding, and servicing at scale. The platform unifies fragmented financial technology stacks into a single intelligent layer, integrating with CRMs, custodians, portfolio management tools, and underwriting systems.

NODA AI $28M
Private Austin, US

AI-native defense company developing AI-powered orchestration for autonomous systems. Creates the cognitive layer enabling autonomous defense systems to work together across different vendors and platforms. Builds novel algorithmic weapons and tactics orchestration for all-domain, cross-vendor systems serving Department of War and UK Ministry of Defense.

OMGPop $17M
Acquired New York, United States

Social gaming company best known for Draw Something, a viral mobile drawing game that reached 50M downloads in 50 days and was downloaded over 200M times. Originally launched as iminlikewithyou in 2006, combining social networking with Flash-based browser games. Produced 37 games on a real-time multiplayer platform. Acquired by Zynga for $180M ($210M with earnout) in March 2012, then shut down in June 2013.

Zapier $3M
Private San Francisco, US

Workflow automation platform that connects over 7,000 apps, enabling users and businesses to automate repetitive tasks without code. One of the most capital-efficient companies in tech history, reaching a $5B valuation on just $2.7M in primary funding.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.