Bain Capital Ventures
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, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Rapid7, and Redis. Bain Capital Ventures manages $10 billion of committed capital, has over 400 active portfolio companies, and has offices in Boston, New York City, Palo Alto, and San Francisco.
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Type | Limited liability company |
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Industry | Financial services, Investment management |
Founded | 2001 |
Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, New York, New York, San Francisco, California, Palo Alto, California |
Key people | Partners: Ajay Agarwal, Scott Friend, Matt Harris, Aaref Hilaly, Sarah Hinkfuss, Christina Melas-Kyriazi, Enrique Salem, Kevin Zhang |
Products | Venture capital |
AUM | $10 billion |
Number of employees | 30+ |
Parent | Bain Capital |
Website | www |

Investments
Bain Capital Ventures has raised slightly over $10 billion of investor capital since 2001 across nine core investment funds and three co-investment funds. The firm is currently investing its ninth fund, Bain Capital Venture Fund 2021, which raised $950 million from investors. The following is a summary of Bain Capital Venture's private equity funds raised from its inception through the end of 2021:[1]
Fund | Vintage Year | Committed Capital ($m) |
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Bain Capital Venture Fund | 2001 | $250 |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2005 | 2005 | $250 |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2007 | 2007 | $500 |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2009 | 2009 | $525 |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2012 | 2012 | $660 |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2014 | 2014 | $650, $200[2] |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2016 | 2016 | $600 |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2019 | 2019 | $650, $250 [3] |
Bain Capital Venture Partners 2021 | 2021 | $950, $350 [4] |
Some of the company's notable investments have included: Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Moveworks, Rapid7, and Redis.
Notable people
- Ajay Agarwal
- Scott Friend
- Matt Harris
- Aaref Hilaly
- Sarah Hinkfuss
- Merritt Hummer
- Christina Melas-Kyriazi
- Enrique Salem
- Kevin Zhang
References
- Data collected from Preqin, a private equity database system
- Shieber, Jonathan (18 June 2014). "Bain Capital Ventures Raises $850 Million In Two New Funds". TechCrunch. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
- "Bain Capital Ventures has a fresh $1B to invest in startups". 14 November 2018.
- "Bain Capital Ventures raised $1.3 billion to fund young startups, and young VC firms, too". 20 May 2021.