Bessemer Fellowship Program

Connecting university students to great tech companies

The Bessemer Fellowship Program is currently being reimagined as part of our evolving Talent-related initiatives. While we are pausing the program in its current form, we remain committed to helping exceptional students connect with meaningful opportunities across our portfolio. We encourage interested candidates to explore hundreds of open roles on our Careers page, where you can search by role and filter for internships.

Technical students who want hands-on experience working with hundreds of pioneering startups will find the Bessemer Analyst Program offers unique exposure to the tech ecosystem—participants collaborate directly with world-class founders and Bessemer partners and gain deep insight into business models, product strategy, engineering, and data science, whether or not their career interests are focused on venture capital. We encourage anyone with a passion for startups and innovation to learn more and apply here.

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Eligibility

A Bessemer Fellow is a special appointment for high-performing undergraduate students interested in pursuing an engineering, product, or data science internship at a start-up company in Bessemer’s portfolio. The program is for students who have demonstrated excellence in their academic or professional pursuits and are passionate about contributing to Bessemer’s robust entrepreneurship ecosystem.

The Bessemer Fellowship Program will appoint up to 10 fellows for Summer 2025. Applications are accepted for undergraduate students planning to graduate in the Spring/Summer of 2026 or 2027. Please email fellowship@bvp.com with questions about our program.

Note: This is not an analyst or venture capital internship, but instead an opportunity to work at one of the companies that Bessemer has funded. If you are looking for an internship to learn more about the world of venture capital investing, please consider applying to Bessemer’s Analyst Program.

 

Bessemer’s Previous Cohorts

Get to know our cohorts and learn about what changes they wish to see in tech by 2030.

 

Portfolio Companies

Here are a few of the companies that have hosted a Bessemer Fellow. To learn more about them, please visit our companies page:

 

About Bessemer

Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 150 IPOs and 350 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their earliest days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, RocketLab, Wix, Fiverr, Toast and ServiceTitan, and the firm has $19 billion of assets under management. Bessemer has investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv.

Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio).