Bessemer Venture Partners Portfolio Scraper

Premium VC portfolio data from one of the most respected venture firms in the world. Extracts Bessemer's full portfolio of 500+ companies with their proprietary Roadmap sector taxonomy — the same classification BVP analysts use internally to map markets (Cloud, Cybersecurity, Healthcare, Consumer, Fintech, Vertical Software, Developer, AI & ML, Marketplaces, Biotech, India).

Why this dataset commands a premium

Bessemer's Roadmap classification is a recognized industry framework cited in market maps, sector reports, and corporate strategy decks. Unlike generic startup databases, this scraper pulls the raw taxonomy directly from BVP's authoritative source — paired with partner attribution, partnered year, founded year, IPO ticker, and acquirer where applicable.

This is strictly richer data than the YC Companies feed. YC tells you what got funded; Bessemer tells you which sector thesis each deal belongs to and which partner sponsored it.

What you get per company

Field	Description
name	Company display name
roadmap_sectors	List of Bessemer Roadmap categories (e.g., ["AI & ML", "Healthcare"])
investors	Bessemer partners on the deal (e.g., ["Steve Kraus", "Sameer Dholakia"])
partnered_year	Year Bessemer first invested
founded_year	Company founding year
status	One of active, ipo, acquired, acquired_post_ipo, exited
ticker	Stock ticker if public (e.g., "NASDAQ:TWOU")
acquirer	Acquirer company name if acquired
exit_details	Raw "enduring" string from BVP (e.g., "NASDAQ: XLRN / ACQUIRED BY: MERCK")
website	Company website URL
description	One-paragraph intro from BVP
profile_url	Direct link to the BVP company page

Input

{
  "roadmapFilter": "Healthcare",
  "statusFilter": "all",
  "yearFromTo": {"from": 2018, "to": 2024},
  "maxResults": 100
}

• roadmapFilter — optional substring match against Bessemer Roadmap sectors. Examples: Cloud, Cybersecurity, AI & ML, Healthcare, Fintech, Vertical software, Developer, Marketplaces, Consumer, Biotech, India.
• stageFilter — accepted for forward compatibility but ignored. Bessemer does not publish per-deal stage on the public index.
• statusFilter — all (default), active (currently private), or exited (IPO'd or acquired).
• yearFromTo — {"from": 2020, "to": 2024} filters by partnered year.
• maxResults — 1 to 1000. Bessemer publishes ~500 companies total.

Use cases

• VC competitive intelligence — Map which sectors a top-tier firm is actively backing, which partners specialize where, and how their thesis evolves year over year.
• Sector landscape mapping — Pull every BVP company tagged Cybersecurity to build a category map cross-referenced with funding rounds elsewhere.
• M&A target sourcing — Filter to status=active in a specific Roadmap to surface category leaders backed by a top-tier investor.
• Partner outreach — Get the partner name for any portfolio company before warm-intro outreach.

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

Event	Price	Notes
Per portfolio company	$0.50	Charged for every dataset item returned
Actor start	$0.00005	One-time per run

The Bessemer index lives in a single HTML payload — one HTTP request returns the entire portfolio. You pay only for what you extract.

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Combine them via the NexGenData VC Intelligence MCP for a unified portfolio-comparison layer.

Data source & freshness

• Source: https://www.bvp.com/companies (server-rendered HTML, no JS required)
• Freshness: Bessemer updates the page when new deals close or exits happen. Run the actor weekly for fresh data.
• Reliability: Single-page extraction; no anti-bot challenges observed via Apify residential proxy.

Note on stage data

Bessemer does NOT publish per-deal stage (Seed / Series A / B / Growth) on the public /companies index. The stageFilter input is accepted but does not constrain results. If stage data is critical, combine with the Crunchbase Funding Scraper for the same company set.