Bvp APIbvp.com ↗
Access BVP portfolio companies, team profiles, roadmaps, anti-portfolio stories, and Atlas insights via 11 structured endpoints.
What is the Bvp API?
The BVP API provides structured access to Bessemer Venture Partners' public data across 11 endpoints, covering portfolio companies, team member profiles, investment roadmaps, anti-portfolio entries, and content from their Atlas section. The get_portfolio_companies endpoint returns company objects with fields including name, description, status, website, investors, year_founded, year_partnered, and roadmaps, with optional filtering by keyword or roadmap category.
curl -X GET 'https://api.parse.bot/scraper/38e9d9d6-def4-4a80-b3b8-0289d0c9829e/get_portfolio_companies?query=cloud&roadmap=AI' \ -H 'X-API-Key: $PARSE_API_KEY'
Retrieve the full list of BVP portfolio companies (about 530) in two round trips: the portfolio listing plus the team roster used to resolve investor profile URLs. Optional client-side filters: a search keyword matched against the company name, and a roadmap/sector name matched against each company's sector tags. Returns all companies when no filters are provided; an empty items array is a valid result when nothing matches. Each company has name, slug (input to get_company_detail), url, status ('active', 'public', 'acquired' or empty), investors (name and profile url, url empty when the investor is not on the current team roster), roadmaps/sectors (sector labels), sector_slugs, location, stages, stock_ticker and logo. The listing no longer carries description, website, year_founded or year_partnered, so those fields are always empty strings here; get_company_detail returns them.
| Param | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Search keyword to filter companies by name (case-insensitive substring match). |
| roadmap | string | Roadmap/sector name to filter by (case-insensitive; matches when the value contains a company's sector label or vice versa, or equals its sector slug). Sector labels observed: AI, Biotech, Consumer, Crypto, Cybersecurity, Data & Cloud, Deep Tech & Defense, Developer, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare, Infrastructure, Marketplaces, Physical AI & Robotics, Vertical. |
{
"type": "object",
"fields": {
"items": "array of company objects with name, slug, url, description (always empty in the listing), status, website (always empty in the listing), investors (array of {name, url}), year_founded and year_partnered (always empty in the listing), roadmaps and sectors (sector labels), sector_slugs, location, stages (array such as 'seed', 'growth'), stock_ticker, logo (image URL)"
},
"sample": {
"data": {
"items": [
{
"url": "https://www.bvp.com/portfolio/cloudinary",
"logo": "https://cdn.sanity.io/files/2e9xvz8g/production/93bd747b08d510082583816109414b3f0581d073.svg",
"name": "Cloudinary",
"slug": "cloudinary",
"stages": [
"seed"
],
"status": "active",
"sectors": [
"Developer",
"AI"
],
"website": "",
"location": "",
"roadmaps": [
"Developer",
"AI"
],
"investors": [
{
"url": "https://www.bvp.com/team/john-doe",
"name": "John Doe"
},
{
"url": "https://www.bvp.com/team/jane-doe",
"name": "Jane Doe"
}
],
"description": "",
"sector_slugs": [
"developer",
"ai"
],
"stock_ticker": "",
"year_founded": "",
"year_partnered": ""
}
]
},
"status": "success"
}
}About the Bvp API
Portfolio Company Data
The get_portfolio_companies endpoint returns the full BVP portfolio with two optional filters: query (case-insensitive substring match against name or description) and roadmap (matches against a company's roadmap tags). For a more targeted search, search_portfolio_companies accepts a required query string, and filter_companies_by_roadmap accepts a required roadmap string — known values include AI & ML, Biotech, Cloud, Cybersecurity, and Data. Each company object in these responses includes investors, year_founded, year_partnered, and roadmaps arrays. For richer detail on a single company, get_company_detail takes a company_slug (e.g. shopify, twilio) and returns expanded fields when the company has a full detail page.
Team and Roadmap Endpoints
get_team_members returns the full BVP team roster with name, title, slug, url, and photo for each member. Passing a member_slug to get_team_member_detail returns bio, social_links, roadmaps (focus areas), and portfolio_highlights for that person. Roadmap structure is available through list_roadmaps, which returns all sector categories with name, url, and slug. Passing a slug such as ai, consumer, or cybersecurity to get_roadmap_page returns a title, description, and the companies array associated with that roadmap landing page — note that only roadmaps with dedicated landing pages return a populated companies list.
Anti-Portfolio and Content
get_anti_portfolio returns BVP's publicly documented list of companies they passed on, where each entry contains a description field telling the story of the missed investment. The name, status, website, and investors fields are typically empty for these entries. get_discover_content surfaces recent articles and reports from the BVP Atlas section, with each item carrying title, url, date, and excerpt.
Seed Program
get_seed_program_info returns structured data about BVP's early-stage investment program: a title, a description containing program statistics, and an early_investments array highlighting seed-stage companies that reached public markets.
The Bvp API is a managed, monitored endpoint for bvp.com — not a raw scraper you maintain. Every endpoint is automatically health-checked on a schedule, and when bvp.com changes and a check fails, the API is automatically queued for repair and re-verified. It is built to keep working as the site underneath it changes.
This isn't an official bvp.com API — it's an independent, maintained REST wrapper over public data. Where the source has no official API (or only a limited one), Parse gives you a stable contract over a source that never promised one, and keeps it current. Need a new endpoint or field? You can revise it yourself in plain English and the agent rebuilds it against the live site in minutes — contributing the change back to the shared API is free.
Will this API break when the source site changes?+
Is this an official API from the source site?+
Can I fix or extend this API myself if I need a new endpoint or field?+
What happens if I call an endpoint that has an issue?+
- Map BVP's investment thesis by pulling all companies for a given roadmap category like
AI & MLorCybersecurityviafilter_companies_by_roadmap. - Build a timeline of BVP investments by sorting portfolio company objects on
year_partneredoryear_founded. - Research a specific partner's focus areas and portfolio highlights using
get_team_member_detailwith their slug. - Pull anti-portfolio entries from
get_anti_portfolioto analyze patterns in passed investment opportunities. - Track BVP's published insights and reports by polling
get_discover_contentfor new items bydate. - Identify seed-stage exits by parsing the
early_investmentsarray returned byget_seed_program_info. - Cross-reference investor names from the
investorsfield across multiple portfolio companies to identify partner deal patterns.
| Tier | Price | Credits/month | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 200 | 5 req/min |
| Hobby | $30/mo | 1,000 | 20 req/min |
| Developer | $100/mo | 5,000 | 100 req/min |
| Team | $300/mo | 20,000 | 300 req/min |
| Company | $1,000/mo | 100,000 | 500 req/min |
Each endpoint has a fixed posted price per successful call — most fall between 1 and 10 credits — shown on this API's page before you run it. Exceeding the rate limit returns a 429 response. Authenticate with the X-API-Key header.
Does Bessemer Venture Partners offer an official developer API?+
What does `get_company_detail` return compared to `get_portfolio_companies`?+
get_portfolio_companies returns a uniform set of fields for every company in the portfolio. get_company_detail takes a company_slug and fetches the individual company page, which can return additional or expanded fields when a full detail page exists. For companies whose pages use a different layout, the response falls back to name, description, and slug only.Are company funding amounts, valuations, or deal terms available?+
name, description, status, website, investors, year_founded, year_partnered, roadmaps) and team/roadmap context, but does not expose funding rounds, valuations, or deal terms. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to add an endpoint targeting any additional structured data BVP makes public.How does roadmap filtering work, and which roadmap slugs are valid for `get_roadmap_page`?+
filter_companies_by_roadmap uses a case-insensitive substring match against the roadmaps array on each company object, so partial strings work. get_roadmap_page requires an exact slug for a landing page that exists on the site — documented examples include ai, consumer, cybersecurity, crypto-and-web3, data, and deep-tech-defense. Roadmaps without dedicated landing pages will not return a populated companies array. Use list_roadmaps to retrieve all available slugs.Do anti-portfolio entries include company names or website URLs?+
get_anti_portfolio response returns entry objects where the description field contains the narrative of the missed investment, but name, website, investors, and similar fields are typically empty. The stories are identified by their descriptions rather than structured metadata. You can fork this API on Parse and revise it to extract any additional structured fields BVP adds to those entries over time.