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VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI

Publisher description: The VC firm says that AI-native companies are growing faster than any technology, ever.

TechCrunch | Sep 23, 2026 | Julie Bort

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Bessemer Venture Partners announced on Wednesday that it has raised $5. 75 billion across two new funds to accelerate its investment across all parts of the AI stack. The firm, which has backed companies such as Anthropic, Cognition, Legora, Perplexity, Ramp, Shopify and Waymo, dedicated $1. 75 billion for seed and early-stage investing and the remaining $4 billion for growth startups. So far, the firm has invested $3 billion into AI-related startups, it says, including those focused on compute, infrastructure, foundation models, dev tools, app-layer startups, and agentic tech.

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