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Bessemer Venture Partners pitch deck — what they look for.

Cloud and SaaS-focused fund; publishes the "State of the Cloud" annually.

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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

  1. 1

    Add a NDR / GDR slide explicitly — don’t make Bessemer partners do the math.

  2. 2

    Map your company onto one of Bessemer’s "thesis-driven" frames (e.g. Vertical Saas, Developer Cloud, Healthcare Cloud).

  3. 3

    Open the deck with one customer logo + quote from a real CIO/CTO if you have one.

Source: www.bvp.com/atlas

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