Bessemer Fellowship Program
Connecting university students to great tech companies
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Our 2025 Fellowship application is now closed – please check back in 2025 for updates.
Eligibility
A Bessemer Fellow is a special appointment for high-performing undergraduate students interested in pursuing an engineering, product, or data science internship at a start-up company in Bessemer’s portfolio. The program is for students who have demonstrated excellence in their academic or professional pursuits and are passionate about contributing to Bessemer’s robust entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The Bessemer Fellowship Program will appoint up to 10 fellows for Summer 2025. Applications are accepted for undergraduate students planning to graduate in the Spring/Summer of 2026 or 2027. We are particularly focused on working with students from underrepresented backgrounds. Please email fellowship@bvp.com with questions about our program.
Note: This is not an analyst or venture capital internship, but instead an opportunity to work at one of the companies that Bessemer has funded. If you are looking for an internship to learn more about the world of venture capital investing, please consider applying to Bessemer’s Analyst Program.
Bessemer’s Previous Cohorts
Get to know our cohorts and learn about what changes they wish to see in tech by 2030.
- 2020 Fellowship cohort
- 2021 Fellowship cohort
- 2022 Fellowship cohort
- 2023 Fellowship cohort
- 2024 Fellowship cohort
Portfolio Companies
Here are a few of the companies that have hosted a Bessemer Fellow. To learn more about them, please visit our companies page:
About Bessemer
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations to build and forge long-standing companies. With more than 145 IPOs and 300 portfolio companies in the enterprise, consumer, and healthcare spaces, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from their early days through every stage of growth. Bessemer’s global portfolio has included Pinterest, Shopify, Twilio, Yelp, LinkedIn, PagerDuty, DocuSign, Wix, Fiverr, and Toast and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer has teams of investors and partners located in Tel Aviv, Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, London, Hong Kong, Boston, and Bangalore.
Born from innovations in steel more than a century ago, Bessemer’s storied history has afforded its partners the opportunity to celebrate and scrutinize its best investment decisions (see Memos) and also learn from its mistakes (see Anti-Portfolio).