Bessemer Venture Partners closes on $3.3 billion across two funds
Another VC firm has closed on some significant funding for investments — underscoring both the long-term confidence investors continue to have for backing startups in the tech sector, and the amount of money swimming around in venture at the moment.
Bessemer Venture Partners announced Thursday the close of two new funds totaling $3.3 billion, money that it will be using to back early-stage startups as well as growth rounds for more mature companies.
The Redwood City-based firm closed BVP XI with $2.475 billion and BVP Century II with $825 million in total commitments.
With BVP XI, Bessemer plans to focus on early-stage companies spanning enterprise, consumer, healthcare and frontier technologies. Its Century II fund, meanwhile, will be aimed at backing growth-stage companies that Bessemer said it believes “will define the next century,” and will include both follow-on rounds for existing portfolio companies and investments in new ones.