Talia Goldberg is a partner in Bessemer’s San Francisco office and invests across software and consumer. She supports teams that leverage AI to create new categories and progress the way we live and work. She looks for founders building radically better products with unique distribution models.
Talia joined Bessemer in 2013 and later became the youngest elected partner in firm history. She is partner to DeepL, Discord, Fal AI, Intercom, Kindred, Lithic, Papaya Global, Perplexity, Rupa Health, ServiceTitan, Shippo, Stubhub, Supermaven (now Cursor), Syndio, Teachable, and Toss, among others. Learn more on her blog and hear from many of the entrepreneurs she has backed by listening to This is Series A. She was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital.
Talia graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. She grew up in Portland, Oregon, which she insists is home to the best ice cream and pizza in America.
Talia believes that technology is the engine for human progress. That’s what she loves the most about working in venture capital — it fuels this engine by empowering and supporting ambitious entrepreneurs to build the future.
“The world is shaped by small teams of extremely ambitious people who move fast and think differently. Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels…”
Startups are inherently underdogs. Talia is attracted to entrepreneurs that challenge the status quo. Startups like Perplexity and DeepL exemplify this, taking on behemoths like Google by reimagining search and translation. The question “Won’t [insert large company] eventually do this?” isn’t a deterrent. What matters is execution.
Everything big starts small. Technology creates new markets and transforms existing ones. When Talia first learned about Rupa Health, it was dismissed by most as “niche.” But Talia believed in the founder’s vision: that personalized and root cause medicine isn’t a small trend, it is the future of health and wellness, propelled by advances in diagnostics, telemedicine, and AI.
The best ideas often sound absurd at first. To foster conversation around what the next decade will bring and engage in discussions that challenge the status quo, Talia has made it a tradition to host gatherings where guests share their most unconventional, far-fetched, downright crazy ideas.
When Talia first discovered ServiceTitan in 2013, the Glendale-based company was a tiny startup selling software to plumbers. Watching ServiceTitan become a market leading company powering essential industries has been one of her most rewarding experiences.
Talia isn’t a fair weather fan. She is there when things get messy. When a company faces obstacles, needs to land a crucial hire, or whatever it may be, she rolls up her sleeves alongside the team.
DeepL is a translation platform that offers artificial intelligence systems for different languages and communication.
Discord is a voice, video and text communication service used by over a hundred million people to hang out and talk with their friends and communities.
Intercom develops customer messaging apps for sales, marketing, and support, connected on one platform.
Designed for developers, Lithic makes it simple to create payment cards to enable and control spending.
MakersPlace is the premier market to discover, collect, and invest in truly rare and authentic digital artworks, by the world's leading artists and creators.
Papaya Global is reinventing global payroll, payments, and workforce management.
Perplexity AI is an AI-chat-based conversational search engine that delivers answers to questions using language models.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas. In April of 2019, Pinterest went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: PINS).
Rupa Health makes root cause medicine accessible to all, starting with a specialty lab ordering and diagnostics platform. Rupa Health was acquired by Fullscript in October 2024.
ServiceTitan provides a mobile, cloud-based management platform for home services businesses. ServiceTitan went public in December 2024 (NASDAQ: TTAN).
Shippo helps businesses navigate the complexities of shipping.
Bessemer originally invested in Viagogo in 2012 and then helped finance the company’s acquisition of StubHub from eBay in 2020. The combined company is the leading global event ticketing marketplace on the Internet.
Teachable is an edtech platform that allows anyone to create and sell online courses. Teachable was acquired by Hotmart in 2020.
