Seed through growth \u00b7 US, Israel, India
Bessemer Venture Partners pitch deck — what they look for.
Cloud and SaaS-focused fund; publishes the "State of the Cloud" annually.
What Bessemer Venture Partners actually looks for
"Good cohorts" — Bessemer’s memos repeatedly cite cohort retention as the single best predictor of durable SaaS.
Net dollar retention >120% is the magic number Bessemer publishes; design your traction slide around it.
A clear vertical or horizontal wedge — Bessemer’s thesis docs map cleanly to tagged opportunities.
How to format the deck for Bessemer Venture Partners
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Add a NDR / GDR slide explicitly — don’t make Bessemer partners do the math.
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Map your company onto one of Bessemer’s "thesis-driven" frames (e.g. Vertical Saas, Developer Cloud, Healthcare Cloud).
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Open the deck with one customer logo + quote from a real CIO/CTO if you have one.
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