Bessemer Venture Partners

Firm assets $20.2B (Form ADV regulatory AUM, 2025-12, SEC Form ADV (filed May 2026)): all strategies, not money invested in space.

Counted rounds

Led

3 as participant

Companies

Disclosed round value

$623M

4 of 4 rounds disclosed; whole rounds, not this investor's share

First deal

2017-08-17

Spire Global

Latest deal

2026-09-08

The Exploration Company

Bessemer Venture Partners appears on 4 counted private space funding rounds in our records, into 4 companies: recorded as lead on 1 and as a participant on 3.

The earliest is Spire Global on 17 August 2017; the latest is The Exploration Company on 8 September 2026.

4 of the 4 rounds disclosed a size, together $623M. That is the size of the rounds Bessemer Venture Partners took part in, not the amount Bessemer Venture Partners invested: we hold no per-investor allocations and do not estimate them.

The investor most often on the same counted rounds as Bessemer Venture Partners is DCVC, on 2 rounds.

2 other recorded transactions naming Bessemer Venture Partners are not counted in this portfolio; each is listed separately with the class that keeps it out (offerings by listed companies: 1, IPOs and listings: 1).

Portfolio: counted rounds

Private funding rounds into space companies that name Bessemer Venture Partners as lead or participant, newest first, each with its source. Round size is the whole round; a blank size was never disclosed and is not estimated.

Bessemer Venture Partners counted rounds. 4 rows.
Date	Company	Stage	Role	Round size	Source
2026-09-08	The Exploration Company	Series C	Lead	$450M	European Spaceflight (opens the source for this round)
2020-05-18	Rocket LabRecorded as Series E-1	Series D and later	Participant	$20.5M	SEC EDGAR (Vector / Rocket Lab Form 424B3) (opens the source for this round)
2018-12-01	Planet LabsRecorded as Series D	Series D and later	Participant	$90.6M	SEC EDGAR (dMY IV / Planet Form S-4/A) (opens the source for this round)
2017-08-17	Spire Global	Series C	Participant	$61.4M	SEC EDGAR (NavSight / Spire Form S-4/A) (opens the source for this round)

Rounds come from company announcements, regulatory filings and press reports. Amounts, valuations and investors are as reported and may be incomplete or later revised. Not investment advice, and not an offer or solicitation for any security. Full disclaimer

By stage, sector and year

Stage
Stage	Rounds
Series C	2
Series D and later	2

Sector of the company
Sector	Rounds
Analytics	2
Infrastructure	1
Launch	1

Year
Year	Rounds
2026	1
2020	1
2018	1

Co-investors

Investors named on the same counted rounds, by the number of rounds shared.

Showing the 10 most frequent of 13 co-investors. The full list is part of a SpaceNexus Research seat.

Not counted in this portfolio

Other recorded transactions that name Bessemer Venture Partners. Each class below is kept out of every figure on this page by the same rule our quarterly funding editions use; they are listed so nothing is hidden.

Follow-on, at-the-market and other offerings by listed companies: 1
IPOs, direct listings and SPAC mergers: 1

Bessemer Venture Partners transactions not counted. 2 rows.
Date	Company	Class	Role	Round size	Source
2024-06-25	Rocket LabRecorded as Follow-on Offering	Follow-on, at-the-market and other offerings by listed companies	Lead	$246M	No source link on record
2021-03-01	Spire GlobalRecorded as SPAC Merger	IPOs, direct listings and SPAC mergers	Participant	$245M	No source link on record

How this page is built

Computed from the SpaceNexus funding record: every figure is a count, a sum or a date over our own rows, and every sentence is a fixed template filled from them. Nothing on this page is written or estimated by a model.
A round counts when it is a published private funding round into a space company, the rule behind our quarterly funding editions and the Most Active Space Investors release.
Investor names are read from each round's recorded lead and investor fields by fixed rules: co-leads written “A / B” or “A; B” are split, hand-checked spelling variants are merged and fund vehicles are credited to the firm that manages them. The wording as recorded is shown beside any row where it differs.
Only 468 of the 626 counted rounds in our records name any investor, so this is what our records show, not a complete list of Bessemer Venture Partners's investments.
Pages join search engines once an investor appears on at least 2 counted rounds.
No investor pays to appear here or to change what is shown.

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Portfolio: counted rounds

By stage, sector and year

Co-investors

Not counted in this portfolio

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