Bain Capital Ventures
The venture arm of Bain Capital. Portfolio includes GoTo, Redis, and Clari, focusing on enterprise software and growth-stage investments.
Typical check size
$1M-$10M (stage-based estimate)
Founded
1984
Headquarters
590 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10022
AUM
N/A
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Bain Capital Ventures as an investor (26 total).
- Adaptive Security AI-native platform simulating deepfake voice, SMS, and email attacks to train employees against social engineering.
- Adaptive Security AI-native platform to prevent social-engineering attacks — deepfakes, vishing, and smishing.
- Cognition Autonomous AI software engineer Devin — agents that code, debug, and ship production software for enterprises.
- Compound Ethereum lending protocol — algorithmic money markets with COMP governance token.
- Decagon Enterprise AI agents automating customer support across chat, voice, and ops.
- dYdX Decentralized perpetuals exchange on dYdX Chain appchain.
- Freenome AI-driven multi-cancer early detection from a routine blood draw.
- Hera AI-powered senior care coordination platform expanding across U.S. states.
- Kinter Agentic AI accountants automating expense-side accounting close inside ERPs.
- Krea Unified GenAI creative platform for real-time image and video generation.
- Lime Shared electric scooters and bikes for urban micromobility in 50+ cities.
- Lumilens Optical interconnect platform connecting AI GPUs at hyperscaler scale.
- Method Embedded API linking consumer debt accounts for repayment and balance transfers.
- Mintlify AI-powered developer documentation platform for API and product docs.
- Mixpanel Product analytics platform for event-based user behavior and funnel analysis.
- Modal Labs NYC serverless cloud for AI workloads — GPUs, sandboxes, batch jobs, and inference without managing clusters.
- Moov Open-source financial infrastructure APIs for embedding payments and money movement.
- Optimizely Enterprise A/B testing and experimentation platform; acquired by Episerver in 2020, now the combined company brand.
- Pylon Agentic B2B customer-support platform unifying Slack, Teams, email, and AI agents.
- Relay Payments platform for SMBs replacing bank wires with tracked, compliant transfers.
- Reserv AI-native insurance claims TPA — automating P&C claims handling at scale.
- Signifyd Commerce protection platform guaranteeing retailers against fraud and chargebacks.
- Straiker Agentic security platform that discovers, adversarially tests, and runtime-protects enterprise AI agents.
- Topography Health Managed marketplace helping community physicians run clinical trials with ops support.
+2 more in the directory graph (browse related articles below or the startups index).
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FAQs about Bain Capital Ventures
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