2025 Year in Review

To our founders, leaders, partners, & friends,

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. 

Ten years of The Cloud 100

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.

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The Cloud 100 Benchmarks Report 2025

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.

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The compounding power of cloud

Cloud built the foundation. AI is now rewriting the rules.

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.

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The State of AI 2025

Three years after the AI Big Bang, early galaxies are forming in the Cloud AI universe, with plenty of “dark matter” still swirling.

From Seed to IPO

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.

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Founders Garage

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.

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Bessemer Beam

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.

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Seed Summit 2025

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.

Celebrating IPOs and M&As

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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).

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Intelligent robotics: the new era of physical AI

How robotics, edge computing, and AI are transforming physical automation — and the investment opportunities we see ahead.

Redefining the infrastructure layer for robotics:

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Roadmap: Data 3.0 in the Lakehouse Era

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.

Moving beyond the modern data stack: