Bain Capital Ventures Last updated March 16, 2025 American venture capital division within Bain Capital
Bain Capital Ventures LLC Company type Limited liability company 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 .baincapitalventures .com
Previous logo 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 .
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 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.
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] It invest in the US unit of Japanese national company 7 Eleven by taking a stake in its US Convenience business in case it sells it or list it in the public markets.
Noted Exits:
DocuSign : IPO valuation of $629 million in 2018 [ 22] LinkedIn : IPO valuation of $7.8 billion in 2011 [ 23] Twilio : IPO valuation of $150 million in 2016 [ 24] Rent the Runway : IPO valuation of $357 million in 2021 [ 25] Flywire: IPO valuation of $3.5 billion in 2021 [ 26] Avidxchange: IPO valuation of $4.6 billion in 2021 [ 27] Notable people Ajay Agarwal Scott Friend Matt Harris Aaref Hilaly Sarah Hinkfuss Merritt Hummer Christina Melas-Kyriazi Saanya Ojha Enrique Salem Slater Stitch Kevin Zhang Tina Dimitrova Source: [ 28]
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