The apprenticeship model
The Analyst Program
At Bessemer, we believe venture capital thrives in an apprenticeship model. For almost twenty years, we've been fortunate enough to bring on three to four bright, ambitious, and aspiring investors each year to join the program as a foray into their careers.
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While there are skills and lessons you can learn in school, many elements of venture capital are uniquely learned on the job by engaging with entrepreneurs and experienced investors.
Analysts typically join our selective, two-year program directly from their undergraduate studies or soon after. The program is based in our New York office, but analysts will collaborate on projects with Bessemer partners across the globe and work with emerging founders and exceptional operators.
Our partners and the broader investing team provide hands-on training to gain the foundational skills for your investing career, mentorship on the art of the industry, and invaluable experience. Our analysts are critical, valuable members of the team; they participate in our weekly partnership meetings and make a tremendous impact on the firm.
About the program
Analysts are oftentimes the first touchpoint startup founders have with Bessemer. They play a role that requires an enterprising spirit, empathy, and a deep understanding of what makes a business work under the hood.
A day in the life of an analyst
Your daily schedule and responsibilities include sourcing new investment opportunities, conducting in-depth research on diligence, roadmap, and deal-making processes, and working alongside Bessemer team members to help our portfolio companies flourish. The skills and experience you gain in this program are foundational to your career. Whether you pursue additional opportunities at Bessemer or elsewhere, your Bessemer analyst experience will be formative and open endless possibilities.
How to apply for next year
Summer Analyst opportunities
Our 2027 Summer Analyst application is now closed. Create a job alert on Greenhouse to be notified when we launch our 2028 Summer Analyst recruiting process. We'll welcome applications from undergraduate and five-year master's program students expecting to graduate between December 2028 and June 2029 who are excited about venture capital, startups, and technology.
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Full-time Analyst opportunities
Applications for our 2027 Full-Time Analyst Program are now open. We’re seeking talented students graduating with a bachelor’s degree (or from a combined Bachelor’s/Master’s program) between December 2026 and June 2027. Applications are due by September 20, 2026, though we encourage candidates to apply as soon as possible with a thoughtful application to help ensure an interview slot is available. We look forward to meeting outstanding candidates in this cycle.
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Are you hosting an event or part of a campus organization or early-career club interested in partnering with Bessemer? We'd love to connect. Submit a request using the form below. For application-process questions, contact recruiting@bvp.com.
Submit a partnership requestSourcing Hall of Fame
Twitch: Mackey Craven created an Alexa Tracker which helped him source Twitch, the live streaming platform. By 2014, Twitch was acquired by Amazon for $970 million.
Truebill: In 2019, Alexandra Sukin sold Kent Bennett on a meeting with founders Haroon and Yahya Mokhtarzada. Bessemer invested in Truebill's Series C and D before the company was acquired by Rocket Companies for $1.275 billion in December 2021.
MindBody: Believing that vertical software could enable small to mid size businesses in the health and wellness space, Brian Feinstein went down the INC 5000. We first invested in 2010; by 2018, MindBody was acquired by Vista Equity.
Diapers.com: In 2007, Mitchell Green tracked the founding team over the course of nine months. The parent company changed its name to Quidsi and sold to Amazon for more than half a billion dollars in 2010.
Wikia/Fandom: Mitchell Green cold emailed Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia fame about a dozen times before the founder agreed to host a meeting in St. Petersburg. In 2006, Bessemer led the $4 million early-stage investment.
Where are they now?
When you join Bessemer’s Analyst Program you become part a close-knit community of investors, experts, and operators who are on the cutting edge of technology and are shaping category-defining companies.
Former analysts have gone on to take senior roles at Bessemer, join later-stage firms in venture and private equity, start their own funds, join or found startups, and even win two Olympic gold medals.
Brian Feinstein
Partner at Bessemer
"Bessemer's analyst program was the perfect training for a career in venture capital. The opportunity to meet with hundreds of startups across a variety of stages and sectors provided an extraordinary breadth of knowledge and pattern recognition. This was the foundation upon which the rest of my career at Bessemer was built."
Talia Goldberg
Partner at Bessemer
"My time in the program helped me develop foundational investor skills from sourcing to diligence to supporting portfolio companies. But most importantly, it helped me hone my intuition. The funny thing about venture capital is that it is full of paradoxes."
Kristen Faulkner
Olympic Gold Medalist, Team USA
"A lot of what I learned to do is how to take calculated risks, how to assess risk. If there's high risk but the reward is high, it might be worth it. What is the risk-reward of being patient versus being aggressive? That's something I definitely take with me."
Aman Kandola
Co-Founder of Tether Data
"The program is a great opportunity to gain a holistic education on the fundamentals of tech startups — things like team building, product strategy, and go-to-market approaches. Having since moved into an operating role at a portfolio company, I've found that examining top performing startups as an analyst has given me insight on best practices across a range of business functions."
Emily Lu
Product Manager at Basis
"As a Bessemer analyst, I learned how to distill large amounts of information quickly, ask the right questions, and form educated opinions. These are skills that I rely on today as a product manager — to be roadmap-driven, drill down to what really matters, and make decisions with discipline."
Josh Benamram
Founder, Databand.ai (acquired by IBM)
"The Bessemer Analyst Program was the perfect launchpad for my career in the startup world. I learned the fundamentals of what makes companies valuable and how to think strategically about growth. What makes BVP unique is a track record and culture with a lineage that dates back to the very inception of venture capital."
Jenny Gao
Chief of Staff to the COO at Shopify
"There is truly no better place to gain this hands-on experience than at Bessemer — I had immense ownership and autonomy in my work while also getting mentored by and working closely with some of the best partners in the venture world. It's the 'intangibles' I gained at Bessemer — the hustle, the judgment, the first principles thinking — that have continued to serve me really well."
Sarah Tavel
Venture Partner at Benchmark
"Young people interested in VC: If Bessemer offers you a job, take it."
