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. And in the spirit of this momentum, we launched two new funds in 2025, closing $1 billion for BVP Forge II and $350 million for our second India fund.
We’re just getting started, and 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. We provide hands-on support 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.
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.
How robotics, edge computing, and AI are transforming physical automation — and the investment opportunities we see ahead.
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.
