Bessemer Venture Partners raises $5.75bn to back AI-native companies

Bessemer Venture Partners has secured $5.75 billion in fresh capital, which it intends to deploy into artificial intelligence companies, marking one of the largest dedicated fundraises of its kind in the venture capital industry.

The firm is directing its attention specifically toward AI-native companies — businesses built from the ground up around artificial intelligence rather than those that have adopted it incrementally. Bessemer believes such companies are growing at a pace that surpasses any previous technology wave on record.

The raise underscores how aggressively institutional investors are positioning themselves around AI as competition among venture firms to back the next generation of transformative technology companies intensifies.