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Today, (BVP) it has successfully closed $1.85 billion in commitments for its tenth flagship venture fund (which we’ll refer to here as “BVP X”).

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BVP X is Bessemer’s largest fund to date. In the chart below, we’ve plotted the size of the firm’s four prior funds.

Fund size data for BVP V and earlier funds was not available through 附近上门 or standard online regulatory filings search.

The firm began raising the fund just a couple months ago. for BVP X was filed on August 10th, just 77 days ago. It indicated that no capital had yet been raised for the new investment fund at that point.

Another Day, Another Billion-Dollar VC Fund

In an ironic linguistic twist, that’s faster than , which also raised $1.8 billion announced in July. It took that firm 106 days to close out its third growth fund and its twelfth flagship venture fund.

These aren’t the only two VC firms to raise ten figures or more for a single fund this year. Heck, it鈥檚 the second one this week. On Tuesday, Thrive Capital announced it raised $1 billion for two funds in its seventh series of flagship investment vehicles..

Beyond these examples, 附近上门 News identified announced in 2018 that top out at $1 billion or more. In the table below we’ve highlighted a selection of them.

Bessemer鈥檚 Investments

Many of the largest funds raised this year were raised by firms with global scope. In its announcement, BVP says that 30 percent of its portfolio companies are headquartered outside the U.S. BVP says that “The firm will keep its global focus with BVP X and [will] continue to bring this global exposure and experience to its portfolio companies.”

Bessemer Venture Partners is a multi-stage investor that writes a wide range of check sizes, 鈥渇rom $50,000 to $100 million,鈥� the firm said in its press release.

Over the course of 2018, BVP led a number of very large venture capital deals. Bessemer鈥檚 biggest lead rounds this year include:

• A round led by marketing automation startup .
• investment in esports team .
• Leading healthcare analytics company round.

BVP鈥檚 Exits

Bessemer Venture Partners says it鈥檚 advised 122 companies 鈥渇rom their early days to their public debuts.鈥� 附近上门 data shows a total of for the firm, which also includes acquisitions of its portfolio companies.

A few of those notable exits include video game streaming platform , which was in 2014 for $970 million, , which was acquired by LinkedIn (another former BVP company), earlier this month. , , , and also enjoyed early support from BVP during their time as private companies.

With billions of dollars under management and a decades-long track record, BVP is one of the more entrenched incumbents in the industry. With another $1.85 billion to dole out, the firm will likely remain a competitive influencer in the global venture capital ecosystem.

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