Bessemer Advantage
Bessemer Advantage
Our unique capabilities and structure allow us to bring the following advantages to our partnerships:
- Advantages for Owners
- Advantages for Management Teams
- Advantages for Employees & Communities
- Advantages for Intermediaries
Advantages for Owners
Advantages for Owners
- No fees of any kind to Bessemer from our portfolio companies.
- Longer-term orientation and focus by Bessemer on creating sustainable growth and value through collaborative partnerships.
- Creative transaction structures to meet potentially disparate objectives of sellers, management, and other stakeholders.
- Opportunity for owners / founders to determine level of ongoing involvement and ownership.
Advantages for Management Teams
Advantages for Management Teams
- No fees of any kind to Bessemer from our portfolio companies.
- Exit decisions based on value maximization instead of fund lifecycle.
- Day to day operating decisions entrusted to management.
- Value-added, experienced thought partner and sounding board.
- Full resources of our firm and network are available to our companies to utilize as appropriate.
- Capital to support strategic initiatives throughout the full investment period.
- Prudent use of financial leverage to preserve operating flexibility.
Advantages for Employees & Communities
Advantages for Employees & Communities
- Primary focus on growth, rather than cost reduction
- Emphasis on being outstanding stewards of companies and their employees
- Creating and preserving career opportunities for employees
- Investing in communities and building longstanding business relationships
Advantages for Intermediaries
Advantages for Intermediaries
- Seek to pay buy-side advisory fees in virtually all our acquisitions.
- Decisive with an emphasis on candid, timely feedback.
- Engage with conviction by focusing on targeted industries and business models that leverage our collective experience.
- Experienced in competitive processes.
- Flexible capital base allows for tailored transaction structures to meet your client’s objectives.
- Complete transactions in a highly expeditious manner while ensuring transparency to all parties involved.
FLEXIBLE AND LONGER-TERM APPROACH
Bessemer Investors’ long-term capital base enables us to tailor our investment approach to align interests, and optimize outcomes. Our capital has no contractual expiration and we do not need to fundraise, so we will seek to monetize each investment at the optimal point in its lifecycle. Exit timing is solely driven by value maximization for all stakeholders. This allows us to focus on long-term value creation by supporting strategic initiatives and investing additional capital at any time during the holding period.
Rapid Decision-Making and Transparency
We evaluate opportunities quickly and discretely. We focus on situations and sectors where we have prior experience or those that leverage our unique capabilities. This enables us to act with conviction. Our team rapidly executes transactions while prioritizing certainty and transparency. We are accustomed to navigating competitive processes.
Legacy of Investing with Integrity
The Bessemer values of integrity, transparency, responsibility, and proper stewardship have been at the core of more than a century of successful investing. We are committed to furthering this legacy by emphasizing these same values in our dialogue with owners, management teams, company employees and every other party with whom we interact.
Connectivity with the Bessemer Network
Our connection to related Bessemer Securities investment vehicles creates advantages for us and our partners, including:
- Broader and deeper market coverage
- Unique business development opportunities
- Shared knowledge and best practices