Bessemer Venture Partners

They will pay attention to who did you raise your money from.

So it's one thing when you try to hire like a very... write computer scientists and you say, hey, I've raised a bunch of money from like Bessemer Venture Capital or Sequoia or Kleiner Perkins or whatever.

And completely different story if you say that I just like inherited a million dollars or something like that.

It's just a completely different credibility that comes with that.

$5.75 billion.

That is how much Bessemer Venture Partners just raised across their two new funds, a $4 billion fund and a $1.75 billion seed fund.

My word, they really took it literally when I said you need a billion dollars to do seed.

Well, I saw this and I thought, we've got to have Samir on the show.

Samir is one of the leaders at Bessemer today.

He led investments in Legora and Fireworks, two 20VC companies as well, which is awesome to work with them on.

And he's one of the best growth investors in the market today.

Anthropic at the time was one of, I don't know, there were probably half a dozen or more other labs that were trying to also build intelligence.

yeah there's a bigger there's a bigger question here that i feel like i constantly humbled by um which is what actually is a venture company um one of my uh favorite examples of this is did you did you know that dick's sporting goods was a venture-backed company no really yeah Yeah.

If you look at the wins from Bessemer Venture Partners.

By the way, Bessemer, amazing vertical software investor.

Bessemer Venture Partners did the early funding of Dick's Sporting Goods.

And what a win.

That's a big company.

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Bessemer Venture Partners, we have about 400 portfolio companies.

Many of them are, um, in the tech space, so we have very early stage, like two people in the company, to large companies where investor like in Anthropic.

But, um, the...

Bloomberg Businessweek says the speed and scale of flag football's recent growth have come in large part at the behest of the NFL.

Along with financial partners like Ariel Investments, Sixth Street, and Bessemer Venture Partners, the league has publicly pledged one hundred and ninety-two million dollars toward the sport since the end of twenty twenty-five, much of it earmarked for the development of a men's and women's pro league that is supposed to launch next year.

Churchill Downs says tickets for the one hundred and fifty-third running of the Kentucky Derby are now on sale.

And that's the Bloomberg Business of Sports Report.

An ignition test showed flame stability, and a fully operational engine core test is planned for two thousand and twenty-six at a facility at the Colorado Air and Space Port.

In December two thousand and twenty-five, Boom closed a dollar three hundred million round led by Darsana Capital Partners with Altimeter Capital, ARK Invest, Bessemer Venture Partners, Robin Hood Ventures, and Y Combinator and introduced Superpower, a forty-two-megawatt natural gas turbine.

Crusoe ordered twenty-nine units, and Boom states that Superpower revenue is meant to finance Overture certification and delivery.

In three decades of counseling technology companies in Silicon Valley, I have read many financing documents in which a hardware milestone releases the next tranche of capital.

We

raised a $250 million Series E round, which was led by Andreessen Horowitz and participated in by Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as previous investors, Sapphire Ventures and Navitas Capital.

Our company has been doubling consistently year over year for the last four years, and we passed $100 million annual recurring revenue early this year.

I met my co-founder in college.

Ampersand is a developer platform that helps AI agents connect to enterprise software like Salesforce and HubSpot.

And yesterday, they just announced their 15 million Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners.

So, Ayan, welcome to MTS.

Hey, thanks.