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Company type | Limited liability company |
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Industry | Financial services, Investment management |
Founded | 2001 |
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 |
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.
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) |
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Bain Capital Venture Fund I | 2001 | $250 |
Bain Capital Venture Fund II | 2005 | $250 |
Bain Capital Venture Fund III | 2007 | $500 |
Bain Capital Venture Fund IV | 2009 | $525 |
Bain Capital Venture Fund V | 2012 | $660 |
Bain Capital Venture Fund VI | 2014 | $650, $200 [9] |
Bain Capital Venture Fund VII | 2016 | $600 |
Bain Capital Venture Fund VIII | 2019 | $650, $250 [10] |
Bain Capital Venture IX | 2021 | $950, $350 [11] |
Bain Capital Ventures Fund X | 2023 | $1440, $480 [12] |
Some of the company's notable investments have included: Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Rapid7, and Redis.
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:
Source: [28]
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