Bessemer Venture Partners

Bessemer Venture Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the world, with roots dating back to 1911 and the Carnegie steel fortune. The firm manages over $20 billion and has backed more than 200 IPOs including Shopify, Twilio, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Wix. Bessemer backed Perplexity and maintains an active AI investment practice spanning enterprise applications, developer tools, and infrastructure. The firm is famous for its cloud computing investment thesis and annual State of the Cloud report, and has expanded its AI practice to identify the next generation of category-defining companies leveraging large language models and generative AI.