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Bain Capital Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 1984 · Active in 2026

Bain Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 1984. The page below shows 80 Power Law outcomes from Bain Capital Ventures's portfolio — 68 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Marketing · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · Denmark · Israel. Bain Capital Ventures ranks #44 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

80 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #44 · Global · 80 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 42% 5y
68
Decacorns ↑ 200% 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 71% 5y
59
01 · Exits

Bain Capital Ventures’ biggest exits.

Bain Capital Ventures portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2006
Entered Series B+Now $70.0B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $26.2B
$12.4B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $13.2B
$4.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
$7.8B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
buyout · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $7.1B
$4.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.7B
IPO · 2009
Entered Series B+Now $4.2B
$3.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $954M
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.7B
IPO · 2014
Now $3.3B
$3.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.2B
$3.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series A
$652M IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$2.8B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$2.2B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series A
$2.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $153M
$1.5B IPO · 2018
Entered SeedNow $1.5B
$1.5B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
$1.4B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $270M
$1.3B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series A
$1.2B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+

+3 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 80 Bain Capital Ventures Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA72
  2. Denmark1
  3. Israel1
  4. France1
  5. Germany1
  6. UAE1
  7. India1
  8. UK1
  9. Canada1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech17
  2. Marketing14
  3. Other B2B Software10
  4. AI7
  5. Cybersecurity7
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  7. Transportation5
  8. Biotech & Life Sciences4
  9. Health Tech & Medtech3
  10. Robotics3
  11. Energy2
  12. Other2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+46
  2. Series A16
  3. Seed9
Estimated holdings

Bain Capital Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Bain Capital Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 16 companies where Bain Capital Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $4.3B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 CrusoeHosting · Decacorn 5.5% $10.0B $550M
  2. 2 WonderFood · Unicorn 7% $7.0B $490M
  3. 3 6SenseEnterprise Software · Unicorn 8.5% $5.2B $442M
  4. 4 HightouchMarketing · Unicorn 14% $2.8B $385M
  5. 5 DecagonMarketing · Unicorn 8% $4.5B $360M
  6. 6 BloomreachEnterprise Software · Unicorn 14.5% $2.2B $319M
  7. 7 8.5% $3.5B $298M
  8. 8 13.2% $2.0B $264M
  9. 9 18.5% $1.0B $185M
  10. 10 18.2% $1.0B $182M
  11. 11 15% $1.2B $178M
  12. 12 14% $1.0B $140M

Showing the 12 largest of 16 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Bain Capital Ventures’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Bain Capital Ventures also appears inside investor groups in Cognition | Devin AI, Socure, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Bain Capital Ventures's 80 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
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05 · Power Law comparison

How does Bain Capital Ventures stack up?

Bain Capital Ventures in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Bain Capital Ventures' portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

165 founders across the 80 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States69
India30
United Kingdom9
Italy6
Denmark4
France3
Vietnam3
Israel2
Australia2
Germany2
+3 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University13
University of Oxford5
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras4
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
University of California, San Diego4
NYU Stern School of Business4
University of Pretoria3
University of Kentucky3
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign3
University of Buffalo3
+77 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google8
Yahoo!8
PayPal5
Meta5
Apple4
Microsoft4
Uber4
Hulu3
Tradeshift2
Coinbase2
+76 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Bain Capital Ventures.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Bain Capital Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Bain Capital Ventures on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about Bain Capital Ventures

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