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Bessemer Venture Partners
States it has invested before product market fit, before traction, and in some cases before a single line of code, and that early-stage founders receive the same support as later-stage companies with no tiered access.
Criteria: States that 62 percent of its investments are pre-revenue at the time of initial investment, footnoted as of 30 September 2025. Publishes sector roadmaps across AI, biotech, cloud, consumer, cybersecurity, crypto, data, deep tech and defence, developer tools, fintech, healthcare, marketplaces and vertical software, plus its actual Series A investment memos for Auth0, Pinterest, Shopify, Fiverr and Rocket Lab, and the Twilio seed memo. Bessemer Beam, a pre-incubator for academics moving from research to AI startups, states it takes no equity and is open by application. Founders Garage is by partner nomination only.
What this means for your pitchRead the roadmap for your sector, then the published memo closest to your company. You will learn the exact benchmarks and objections the partnership uses internally, which almost no other firm makes available.
Bessemer, early stageChecked 16 August 2026
From Bessemer Venture Partners's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
Bessemer co-led Twin1's $20 million seed round alongside Tribeca Venture Partners and Aramco Ventures. Twin1 gives knowledge workers digital twins, AI models of their expertise that answer questions inside Slack, Teams, and email while following each worker's privacy preferences.
Bessemer led Flagler Health's $50 million Series B. Flagler builds AI software that automates clinical workflows, patient management, and billing for musculoskeletal care practices, and the firm states the platform is deployed across thousands of providers in over 36 states.
Bessemer led Onyx Security's $113 million Series B. Onyx builds a control plane that lets enterprises discover AI agents across their infrastructure, govern their permissions, and enforce security on their actions in real time.
Bessemer announced a $350 million fund for India, its second dedicated India fund, investing in AI enabled services, SaaS, fintech, digital health, consumer brands, and cybersecurity. The firm states that more than 80 percent of its India investments over the prior five years were at Series A or earlier.