Bain Capital Ventures

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Bain Capital Ventures LLC
Company type Limited liability company
Industry Financial services, Investment management
Founded2001
Headquarters New York, New York, San Francisco, California, Palo Alto, California
Key people
Partners: Ajay Agarwal, Scott Friend, Matt Harris, Aaref Hilaly, Sarah Hinkfuss, Merritt Hummer, Christina Melas-Kyriazi, Saanya Ojha, Enrique Salem, Slater Stitch, Kevin Zhang
Products Venture capital
AUM $10 billion
Number of employees
30+
Parent Bain Capital
Website www.baincapitalventures.com
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Bain Capital Ventures LLC is the venture capital division within Bain Capital, which has approximately $160 billion of assets under management worldwide. The firm's early-stage investments have included Attentive, Bloomreach, Billtrust, [1] Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Justworks, [2] Turbonomic, [3] Rent the Runway, [4] Twilio, [5] Rapid7, and Redis. Bain Capital Ventures manages $10 billion of committed capital, has over 400 active portfolio companies, and has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, and San Francisco.

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Investments

Bain Capital Ventures has raised slightly over $10 billion of investor capital since 2001 across ten core investment funds and three co-investment funds. [6] The firm is currently investing its tenth fund, Bain Capital Venture Fund X, which raised $1.4 billion from investors. [7] The following is a summary of Bain Capital Venture's private equity funds raised from its inception through 2023: [8]

Fund Vintage Year Committed Capital ($m)
Bain Capital Venture Fund I2001$250
Bain Capital Venture Fund II2005$250
Bain Capital Venture Fund III2007$500
Bain Capital Venture Fund IV2009$525
Bain Capital Venture Fund V2012$660
Bain Capital Venture Fund VI2014$650, $200 [9]
Bain Capital Venture Fund VII2016$600
Bain Capital Venture Fund VIII2019$650, $250 [10]
Bain Capital Venture IX2021$950, $350 [11]
Bain Capital Ventures Fund X2023$1440, $480 [12]

Some of the company's notable investments have included: Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Rapid7, and Redis.

Investments

Bain Capital Ventures works with seed, early and growth-stage investments. [13] Its seed and early stage investments include Soona, [14] Momento, [15] Hightouch, [16] and Zenlytic. [17] Examples of growth stage investments include Docker, [18] Tecton, [19] GoCardless, [20] and Signifyd. [21]

Noted Exits:

Notable people

Source: [28]

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