The startup playbooks of the past are being rewritten. Compute replaces code as the unit of cost. Margins compress, velocity accelerates, and growth outpaces every known benchmark. The AI supernovas driving this new economy are shipping faster, solving once intractable problems, and building the future before our very eyes. As investors, we’re backing founders at the earliest stages to help them turn an idea into reality in this new landscape.
We’re just getting started, and we launched two new funds in 2025, closing $1 billion for BVP Forge II and $350 million for our second India fund. We’re energized about what’s ahead as we build alongside founders who are reimagining what’s possible across industries, markets, and borders.
Forge ahead.
When we launched The Cloud 100 with Forbes in 2016, the goal was simple: celebrate the world’s leading private cloud companies. A decade later, the 2025 event marked its 10th anniversary, honoring cloud and AI pioneers like NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, who have set the stage for AI’s massive next chapter.
This year’s Cloud 100 cohort marked a historic milestone, surpassing $1 trillion in value for the first time in 10 years, as the race for AI talent and growth defines cloud leadership amid record-breaking 2025 valuations.
In a decade, The Cloud 100 grew from $99B to $1.1T — proof of the cloud’s compounding power, and just a preview of how AI will shape the next generation of software leaders.
Three years after the AI Big Bang, early galaxies are forming in the Cloud AI universe, with plenty of “dark matter” still swirling.
At Bessemer, we take pride in supporting visionary founders long before they find product-market fit or traction, which is why we launched two incubators this year: Founders Garage and Bessemer Beam. We provide hands-on support throughout the founder journey to help transform bold ideas into category-defining companies.
Founders Garage brings together the next generation of AI founders in a collaborative San Francisco workspace. Created in partnership with Twilio Founder Jeff Lawson, we accept a new cohort of builders each quarter to join the community.
Bessemer Beam is a pre-incubator startup launchpad designed for academics with groundbreaking ideas who are ready to take the leap from research to building companies. Beam helps visionary thinkers transform bold concepts into viable AI startups.
This year’s Seed Summit brought together some of the brightest minds in early-stage investing, capturing the energy and ambition driving the next frontier of innovation.
A series for entrepreneurs, developers, and technical leaders building with AI. Co-hosts Talia Goldberg and Bhavik Nagda go behind the scenes with prominent AI engineers and founders to showcase how cutting-edge products are built — diving into best practices, breaking down real-world tactics, and discussing the frontier of what’s possible.
Daniel Perez and Gabriel Mecklenburg built Hinge Health on a bold vision: to approach musculoskeletal care through relentless product innovation and patient-first values.
Hinge Health pioneers the world's most patient-centered digital hospital, starting with musculoskeletal health. Hinge Health went public in May 2025 (NYSE: HNGE).
Urban Company (fka UrbanClap) is a mobile-based local services marketplace in India. Urban Company became a publicly listed company on the National Stock Exchange (NSE: URBANCO) in September 2025.
SmarterDx ensures complete documentation and coding of diagnoses that impact hospital revenue and quality using EMR data and proprietary clinical AI. New Mountain Capital acquired SmarterDx in May 2025.
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. StubHub went public in September 2025 (NYSE: STUB).
Melio Payments is a B2B payments experience, offering small businesses an easy-to-use tool for paying suppliers and controlling cash flow. In June 2025, Melio Payments was acquired by Xero Limited.
How robotics, edge computing, and AI are transforming physical automation — and the investment opportunities we see ahead. See how we’re redefining the infrastructure layer for robotics with Foxglove.
An overview of our emerging investments aimed to protect democratic values and sovereignty in Europe through technology and innovation. Learn more about how the future of defense is software-defined autonomy with Auterion.
We’re moving beyond the modern data stack as a new architectural revolution sweeps the infrastructure landscape, ushering in unprecedented interoperability for enterprises in an AI age.
The built world drives nearly a quarter of U.S. GDP and yet remains one of the least digitized sectors. Multimodal AI is enabling the next wave of innovation in how we design, build, and operate it.
