Steve Kraus

Steve Kraus is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he focuses exclusively on healthcare and health tech investments. Before joining the prominent venture capital firm, he worked as a management consultant for healthcare clients at Bain & Company, served at a growth-stage private equity firm, and operated as a journalist and political speechwriter. He currently holds board director positions at ten different portfolio companies, including Bright Health Group, while serving on the investment committees for BCBS Massachusetts and other regional healthcare organizations. Additionally, he acts as an advisor to the Center for Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and has analyzed hundreds of venture-backed healthtech startups to identify benchmarks for building $100 million businesses. Kraus leverages his diverse background in consulting, media, and politics to identify and scale high-growth digital health enterprises.