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Bain Capital

Investment firm · Founded 1984 · Active in 2026

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148 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #239 · Global · 148 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 70% 5y
34
Decacorns ↑ 50% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 71% 5y
29

Bain Capital is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1984. The page below shows 148 Power Law outcomes from Bain Capital's portfolio — 34 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 10 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Fintech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Germany. Bain ranks #239 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 148 Bain Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA120
  2. UK5
  3. Germany3
  4. China2
  5. Australia2
  6. South Korea2
  7. Israel2
  8. Italy1
  9. India1
  10. Denmark1
  11. Malaysia1
  12. France1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences36
  2. Fintech28
  3. Other B2B Software17
  4. Marketing17
  5. Cybersecurity12
  6. AI9
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  8. Health Tech & Medtech7
  9. Transportation6
  10. Other4
  11. Energy3
  12. Edtech1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+33
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

Bain's 148 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
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02 · Founder talent

Where Bain's founders come from — and where they study.

260 founders across the 148 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 States85
India38
Germany26
United Kingdom15
China7
France6
Italy6
Canada4
Denmark4
Vietnam3
+8 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University14
University of Oxford7
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg6
NYU Stern School of Business5
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras4
Harvard University4
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
University of California, San Diego4
University of Pretoria3
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management3
+122 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google14
Microsoft9
Yahoo!8
PayPal6
Apple5
Uber5
Meta5
Stability AI4
Groupon2
Coinbase2
+92 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.
03 · Key people

Key people at Bain.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Bain stack up?

Bain in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
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.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Bain Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Bain 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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