Bain Capital Ventures

Venture Capital

Venture capital arm of Bain Capital focused on early and growth-stage technology companies.

Profile

Founded
2001
Headquarters
Boston, US
Investments
18
Companies
11

Capital

Total Deployed
$1.9B
Lead Rounds
11

Portfolio

11 companies
Lime $947M
Private San Francisco, United States

Lime is the world's largest shared electric vehicle company, providing electric scooter, e-bike, and e-moped rentals in over 280 cities across nearly 30 countries. The company reported $686 million in revenue for 2024 and has been free cash flow positive for two consecutive years.

Signifyd $409M
Private San Jose, United States

Signifyd provides a Commerce Protection Platform that uses machine learning and large-scale data network effects to provide guaranteed fraud protection for e-commerce merchants. The platform automates order decisions with a financial guarantee against chargebacks, enabling merchants to maximize revenue while minimizing fraud losses. Signifyd's network processes billions of transactions from thousands of merchants worldwide.

Black Forest Labs $331M
Private Freiburg, Germany

Black Forest Labs is a frontier AI lab building state-of-the-art generative AI models for images and video. Founded by the creators of Stable Diffusion, the company develops the FLUX family of open-source text-to-image models, which have achieved over 400 million downloads and are used by Adobe, Canva, Meta, and Microsoft.

ShipBob $331M
Private Chicago, US

ShipBob is a global e-commerce fulfillment and logistics platform that provides small and medium-sized businesses with Amazon-level supply chain capabilities. The company operates a network of fulfillment centers across the US, UK, EU, Canada, and Australia, offering warehousing, picking, packing, and shipping services powered by proprietary software.

Optimizely $251M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Digital experience optimization platform providing A/B testing, experimentation, and personalization tools for websites, mobile apps, and connected devices. Co-founded by two former Google product managers who worked on the Obama 2008 campaign's digital optimization. Acquired by Episerver (now Optimizely) in 2020.

Adaptive Security $147M
Private New York, United States

AI-native cybersecurity platform that protects organizations from AI-powered social engineering attacks. Simulates deepfake voice calls, AI-generated phishing emails, and SMS-based attacks to train employees and assess vulnerability. Serves 500+ enterprise customers including PayPal, Xerox, and Bose. Founded by serial entrepreneurs behind TapCommerce (acquired by Twitter) and Attentive ($7B valuation).

LinkedIn $103M
Acquired Sunnyvale, US

Professional networking platform connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. Offers tools for job searching, recruiting, content sharing, and business networking.

Gather AI $71M
Private Pittsburgh, US

Leader in Physical AI for logistics, deploying autonomous drones inside warehouses to scan and track inventory using AI-powered computer vision. Spun out of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute.

Fluent Commerce $67M
Private Sydney, AU

Global provider of distributed order management systems (OMS) that helps retailers and brands manage inventory availability and fulfillment at scale. Serves customers including Prada Group, L'Oreal, LVMH, Kingfisher, and JD Sports with cloud-native, AI-ready order management.

Cogent Security $53M
Private San Francisco, US

AI-native vulnerability management platform that deploys autonomous AI agents to investigate, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across the full lifecycle. Founded by ex-Abnormal Security and Coinbase engineers, Cogent works with dozens of Fortune 1000 companies and reports a 97% reduction in exposure windows for critical issues.

Pylon $51M
Private San Francisco, California, United States

AI-native B2B customer support platform providing omnichannel support across Slack Connect, Microsoft Teams, email, in-app chat, and ticket forms. Features AI-powered ticketing, knowledge base, AI agents, and workflow automation. Modern alternative to Zendesk and Intercom for B2B companies.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.