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, Billtrust, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn, Justworks, Turbonomic, Rent the Runway, Twilio, 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. The firm is currently investing its tenth fund, Bain Capital Venture Fund X, which raised $1.4 billion from investors. The following is a summary of Bain Capital Venture's private equity funds raised from its inception through 2023:
FundVintage YearCommitted Capital
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
Bain Capital Venture Fund VII2016$600
Bain Capital Venture Fund VIII2019$650, $250
Bain Capital Venture IX2021$950, $350
Bain Capital Ventures Fund X2023$1440, $480

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. Its seed and early stage investments include Soona, Momento, Hightouch, and Zenlytic. Examples of growth stage investments include Docker, Tecton, GoCardless, Signifyd, and MaintainX. It invested in the US unit of Japanese national company Seven-Eleven Japan by taking a stake in its US convenience business in case it sells it or lists it in the public markets.
Noted Exits:
  • DocuSign: IPO valuation of $629 million in 2018
  • LinkedIn: IPO valuation of $7.8 billion in 2011
  • Twilio: IPO valuation of $150 million in 2016
  • Rent the Runway: IPO valuation of $357 million in 2021
  • Flywire: IPO valuation of $3.5 billion in 2021
  • Avidxchange: IPO valuation of $4.6 billion in 2021