Bain Capital Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing across all stages of a company’s growth, from seed funding to growth equity. Founded in 1984 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, and Palo Alto, the firm focuses on high-growth sectors such as fintech, enterprise software, and data-driven industries. It has a notable history of helping launch and commercialize over 200 companies, including recognizable names like LinkedIn and DocuSign. Bain Capital Ventures manages approximately $3 billion in assets, with investments typically ranging from $1 million to $100 million, and has a strong preference for technology-enabled businesses that disrupt traditional markets. The firm actively seeks opportunities in diverse areas including healthcare, e-commerce, and application software, positioning itself as a significant player in the venture capital landscape.

Ajay Agarwal

Partner

Steve Anastos

Principal

Allison Braley

Partner

Richie Chaikof

Associate

Zeeza Cole

Principal

Pascal Croak

Investor

Leslie Crowe

Partner

Scott Friend

Partner

Kristie Han

Principal

Aaref Hilaly

Partner

Sarah Hinkfuss

Partner

Merritt Hummer

Partner

Christina Kyriazi

Partner

Greg Mervine

Associate

Abby Meyers

Principal

Saanya Ojha

Partner

Enrique Salem

Partner

Slater Stich Ph.D

Partner

Kevin Zhang

Partner

Paul Zurlo

Partner and COO

Sarah Smith

Partner

Michael Krupka

Partner

Alysaa Co

Principal

Past deals in San Francisco Bay Area

MaintainX

Series C in 2023
MaintainX, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in a frontline record management platform designed for maintenance and facility management teams. Launched in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, MaintainX provides a software as a service (SaaS) solution that digitizes workflows, enhances collaboration, and offers analytics to streamline maintenance operations. The platform includes features such as environmental and training checklists, tooling and gauge reporting, auditing workflows, and quality control inspections. Additionally, it facilitates communication among users and allows for photo uploads to enhance operational efficiency. MaintainX serves a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing facilities, restaurants, and hotels, focusing on improving asset management and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Bubbles

Seed Round in 2022
Bubbles is a collaboration tool that lets's tag anything on screen and invite teammates to discuss in-context. Get excited by organic growth and viral loops, and less so by paid advertising. Are active on one or more social platforms like Medium, Twitter, Product Hunt, etc. It was founded in 2018 and is based inSan Francisco, California.

Clockwise

Series C in 2022
Clockwise Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software for time management. Its flagship product, Clockwise, serves as a smart calendar assistant that connects to users' work calendars at the system level. The software learns individual preferences, such as typical working hours, time zones, and meeting tolerances, to create a more efficient scheduling experience. By analyzing schedules and work habits, Clockwise automatically coordinates meetings and identifies optimal times for focused work, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing the stress associated with manual calendar management. Founded in 2016, the company aims to bring flexibility to modern workdays, enabling teams to balance collaborative efforts with personal focus time, thereby promoting well-being and preventing burnout.

Wisetack

Series B in 2021
Wisetack, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in real-time consumer lending at the point of sale. Founded in 2018, Wisetack offers a platform that allows in-person businesses to provide financing options to customers, enhancing sales opportunities. The platform integrates seamlessly into existing software systems through a suite of APIs, enabling businesses to embed financing solutions directly into their operations. Wisetack facilitates a straightforward sign-up process and checks consumer eligibility before offering installment payment options, thereby simplifying the payment experience for both businesses and their customers.

Cube Dev

Series A in 2021
Cube Dev, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in designing and developing an open-source analytical API platform. The company's offerings include tools for building user interfaces, analytical API servers, and support for modern data stores. Their flagship product, Cube Cloud, serves as a semantic layer that helps organizations manage and optimize their analytics workflows by unifying business logic, centralizing governance and security, and enhancing query performance. Cube Cloud is equipped to handle significant data volumes and provides built-in security, allowing clients to efficiently fetch data rather than relying on pre-built visualizations. Established in 2016, Cube Dev aims to empower businesses to build both internal business intelligence tools and customer-facing analytics capabilities.

Specto

Seed Round in 2021
Specto is a mobile application performance monitoring platform founded in 2019 and based in San Francisco, California. The platform is designed for developers, allowing them to collect essential metrics and profiles with minimal code integration. Specto's proprietary dashboard provides insights into mobile application performance, helping businesses understand the reasons behind specific performance issues. By combining data analysis with industry expertise, the platform enables clients to identify root causes and offers actionable recommendations to enhance application performance. Specto emphasizes ease of integration and provides hands-on support to ensure a smooth user experience.

Cube Dev

Seed Round in 2020
Cube Dev, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in designing and developing an open-source analytical API platform. The company's offerings include tools for building user interfaces, analytical API servers, and support for modern data stores. Their flagship product, Cube Cloud, serves as a semantic layer that helps organizations manage and optimize their analytics workflows by unifying business logic, centralizing governance and security, and enhancing query performance. Cube Cloud is equipped to handle significant data volumes and provides built-in security, allowing clients to efficiently fetch data rather than relying on pre-built visualizations. Established in 2016, Cube Dev aims to empower businesses to build both internal business intelligence tools and customer-facing analytics capabilities.

Redis

Series F in 2020
Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure platform developed for use as a database, cache, and message broker. Officially sponsored by Redis Ltd., the platform supports various data structures, including strings, hashes, lists, and sets, while providing features such as built-in replication, Lua scripting, and transaction management. Designed to enhance performance, Redis allows users to store data in memory, significantly reducing latency and improving throughput for applications. It offers high availability through Redis Sentinel and supports automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. Since its inception in 2011, Redis has become a leader in caching solutions, serving over 10,000 customers globally and establishing a strong presence in major cities such as San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv. The company aims to help digital businesses innovate and improve app speed through its cloud and on-premises database solutions.

Clockwise

Series B in 2020
Clockwise Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that specializes in developing artificial intelligence software for time management. Its flagship product, Clockwise, serves as a smart calendar assistant that connects to users' work calendars at the system level. The software learns individual preferences, such as typical working hours, time zones, and meeting tolerances, to create a more efficient scheduling experience. By analyzing schedules and work habits, Clockwise automatically coordinates meetings and identifies optimal times for focused work, ultimately enhancing productivity and reducing the stress associated with manual calendar management. Founded in 2016, the company aims to bring flexibility to modern workdays, enabling teams to balance collaborative efforts with personal focus time, thereby promoting well-being and preventing burnout.

Verana Health

Series D in 2020
Verana Health, Inc. is a digital health company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in transforming healthcare data into actionable insights. Founded in 2008 and formerly known as Digisight Technologies, the company connects healthcare providers with patients through innovative solutions. Its flagship product, SightBook, is a mobile application that enables users to test their vision and share results with their physicians in real-time, facilitating timely appointments and treatments. Verana Health manages data from over 20,000 healthcare providers and 70 electronic health record systems, leveraging its AI-enhanced platform, VeraQ™, to create a robust healthcare data ecosystem. By utilizing advanced analytics on curated datasets, Verana Health supports life sciences partners in improving clinical research and enhancing patient care outcomes.

Wisetack

Series A in 2019
Wisetack, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in real-time consumer lending at the point of sale. Founded in 2018, Wisetack offers a platform that allows in-person businesses to provide financing options to customers, enhancing sales opportunities. The platform integrates seamlessly into existing software systems through a suite of APIs, enabling businesses to embed financing solutions directly into their operations. Wisetack facilitates a straightforward sign-up process and checks consumer eligibility before offering installment payment options, thereby simplifying the payment experience for both businesses and their customers.

Wisetack

Seed Round in 2019
Wisetack, Inc. is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in real-time consumer lending at the point of sale. Founded in 2018, Wisetack offers a platform that allows in-person businesses to provide financing options to customers, enhancing sales opportunities. The platform integrates seamlessly into existing software systems through a suite of APIs, enabling businesses to embed financing solutions directly into their operations. Wisetack facilitates a straightforward sign-up process and checks consumer eligibility before offering installment payment options, thereby simplifying the payment experience for both businesses and their customers.

Redis

Series E in 2019
Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure platform developed for use as a database, cache, and message broker. Officially sponsored by Redis Ltd., the platform supports various data structures, including strings, hashes, lists, and sets, while providing features such as built-in replication, Lua scripting, and transaction management. Designed to enhance performance, Redis allows users to store data in memory, significantly reducing latency and improving throughput for applications. It offers high availability through Redis Sentinel and supports automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. Since its inception in 2011, Redis has become a leader in caching solutions, serving over 10,000 customers globally and establishing a strong presence in major cities such as San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv. The company aims to help digital businesses innovate and improve app speed through its cloud and on-premises database solutions.

Ike

Series A in 2019
Ike Robotics Inc., founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, specializes in the development of autonomous driving technology specifically for the trucking industry. The company focuses on creating a full-stack solution that includes mechanical, electrical, and software components, integrating sensors, computers, and actuators to facilitate safe and reliable highway freight transportation. Ike aims to enhance safety in trucking, improve the value of truck drivers, and increase overall efficiency within the industry. By leveraging advanced automation technology, Ike aspires to positively impact livelihoods, create jobs, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As of December 2020, Ike operates as a subsidiary of Nuro, Inc.

ParaFi Capital

Corporate Round in 2018
ParaFi Capital is an alternative asset management and technology firm based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2018, it focuses on liquid and venture investment strategies within the digital asset ecosystem, including companies in fintech and blockchain. As one of the earliest institutional investors in the blockchain industry, ParaFi has established itself as a trusted partner for leading global institutions. The firm aims to leverage its expertise to identify and support innovative companies operating in this rapidly evolving sector.

mParticle

Series C in 2017
mParticle, Inc. is a provider of a customer data platform designed for multi-channel consumer brands. The platform allows businesses to manage and analyze customer data in real time, enabling marketers, developers, and data scientists to integrate and orchestrate their marketing strategies effectively. By collecting user data from diverse sources, mParticle creates a unified view that facilitates personalized and seamless customer experiences across various channels. This capability helps companies optimize customer journeys, gain actionable insights, and enhance engagement through advanced analytics and audience segmentation. mParticle serves a range of industries, including retail, financial services, media, dining, travel, gaming, customer experience, marketing, and analytics. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, London, and Delray Beach.

Redis

Series D in 2017
Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure platform developed for use as a database, cache, and message broker. Officially sponsored by Redis Ltd., the platform supports various data structures, including strings, hashes, lists, and sets, while providing features such as built-in replication, Lua scripting, and transaction management. Designed to enhance performance, Redis allows users to store data in memory, significantly reducing latency and improving throughput for applications. It offers high availability through Redis Sentinel and supports automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. Since its inception in 2011, Redis has become a leader in caching solutions, serving over 10,000 customers globally and establishing a strong presence in major cities such as San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv. The company aims to help digital businesses innovate and improve app speed through its cloud and on-premises database solutions.

Zenreach

Series C in 2017
Zenreach, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides online marketing solutions aimed at improving customer acquisition and lifetime value for businesses with physical locations. Founded in 2011, Zenreach developed Walk-Through Marketing to integrate digital marketing with in-store outcomes. Their Zenreach Engage platform automatically tracks customer visits, creating and updating detailed customer profiles. Additionally, Zenreach Attract enhances advertising effectiveness by targeting audiences based on existing customer data, reportedly improving ad performance by four times. The company measures success through its proprietary Walk-Through Rate™, which indicates when an individual exposed to an advertisement subsequently visits a location. Zenreach serves a diverse clientele, including thousands of independent merchants and well-known brands.

mParticle

Series B in 2016
mParticle, Inc. is a provider of a customer data platform designed for multi-channel consumer brands. The platform allows businesses to manage and analyze customer data in real time, enabling marketers, developers, and data scientists to integrate and orchestrate their marketing strategies effectively. By collecting user data from diverse sources, mParticle creates a unified view that facilitates personalized and seamless customer experiences across various channels. This capability helps companies optimize customer journeys, gain actionable insights, and enhance engagement through advanced analytics and audience segmentation. mParticle serves a range of industries, including retail, financial services, media, dining, travel, gaming, customer experience, marketing, and analytics. Founded in 2012, the company is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in San Francisco, Bellevue, London, and Delray Beach.

Redis

Series C in 2016
Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure platform developed for use as a database, cache, and message broker. Officially sponsored by Redis Ltd., the platform supports various data structures, including strings, hashes, lists, and sets, while providing features such as built-in replication, Lua scripting, and transaction management. Designed to enhance performance, Redis allows users to store data in memory, significantly reducing latency and improving throughput for applications. It offers high availability through Redis Sentinel and supports automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. Since its inception in 2011, Redis has become a leader in caching solutions, serving over 10,000 customers globally and establishing a strong presence in major cities such as San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv. The company aims to help digital businesses innovate and improve app speed through its cloud and on-premises database solutions.

Zenreach

Series B in 2016
Zenreach, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides online marketing solutions aimed at improving customer acquisition and lifetime value for businesses with physical locations. Founded in 2011, Zenreach developed Walk-Through Marketing to integrate digital marketing with in-store outcomes. Their Zenreach Engage platform automatically tracks customer visits, creating and updating detailed customer profiles. Additionally, Zenreach Attract enhances advertising effectiveness by targeting audiences based on existing customer data, reportedly improving ad performance by four times. The company measures success through its proprietary Walk-Through Rate™, which indicates when an individual exposed to an advertisement subsequently visits a location. Zenreach serves a diverse clientele, including thousands of independent merchants and well-known brands.

Trooly

Series A in 2016
Trooly, Inc. operates an online platform that enhances peer-to-peer social and business interactions through its Instant Trust™ services. Founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Trooly serves major financial institutions, peer-to-peer marketplaces, marketers, and employers by providing real-time verification and predictive assessments of trustworthiness. Utilizing advanced machine learning technology, Trooly analyzes digital footprints to deliver insights that exceed traditional background checks and risk management tools. This service aims to bridge the "trust gap" in modern commerce, offering instant evaluations of potential risks and rewards with minimal data input, typically costing under $1 per query and producing results in approximately 30 seconds. Trooly operates as a consumer reporting agency, adhering to privacy and data protection laws while ensuring transparency and respect for individual privacy. As of June 2018, Trooly is a subsidiary of Airbnb, Inc.

Persado

Series C in 2016
Persado Inc. develops artificial intelligence-driven marketing language solutions designed to enhance customer engagement and drive revenue. The company offers a suite of products, including Pro Email for optimizing email subject lines, Pro Social for generating effective social media ads, and Persado Enterprise and Persado One for personalized, emotion-driven language across various consumer touchpoints. Persado's platform leverages machine learning and natural language generation, trained on extensive datasets, to create compelling content that resonates with target audiences. This technology has demonstrated an average conversion lift of 41%, contributing to significant incremental revenue for major brands in industries such as banking, insurance, retail, and telecommunications. Headquartered in New York, Persado also has locations in several cities worldwide, including San Francisco, Chicago, Rome, Milan, Neo Irakleio, and London. The company maintains strategic partnerships with firms like Emarsys and Listrak to enhance its offerings.

Redis

Series B in 2015
Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure platform developed for use as a database, cache, and message broker. Officially sponsored by Redis Ltd., the platform supports various data structures, including strings, hashes, lists, and sets, while providing features such as built-in replication, Lua scripting, and transaction management. Designed to enhance performance, Redis allows users to store data in memory, significantly reducing latency and improving throughput for applications. It offers high availability through Redis Sentinel and supports automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. Since its inception in 2011, Redis has become a leader in caching solutions, serving over 10,000 customers globally and establishing a strong presence in major cities such as San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv. The company aims to help digital businesses innovate and improve app speed through its cloud and on-premises database solutions.

Zenreach

Series A in 2015
Zenreach, Inc. is a San Francisco-based company that provides online marketing solutions aimed at improving customer acquisition and lifetime value for businesses with physical locations. Founded in 2011, Zenreach developed Walk-Through Marketing to integrate digital marketing with in-store outcomes. Their Zenreach Engage platform automatically tracks customer visits, creating and updating detailed customer profiles. Additionally, Zenreach Attract enhances advertising effectiveness by targeting audiences based on existing customer data, reportedly improving ad performance by four times. The company measures success through its proprietary Walk-Through Rate™, which indicates when an individual exposed to an advertisement subsequently visits a location. Zenreach serves a diverse clientele, including thousands of independent merchants and well-known brands.

Persado

Series B in 2015
Persado Inc. develops artificial intelligence-driven marketing language solutions designed to enhance customer engagement and drive revenue. The company offers a suite of products, including Pro Email for optimizing email subject lines, Pro Social for generating effective social media ads, and Persado Enterprise and Persado One for personalized, emotion-driven language across various consumer touchpoints. Persado's platform leverages machine learning and natural language generation, trained on extensive datasets, to create compelling content that resonates with target audiences. This technology has demonstrated an average conversion lift of 41%, contributing to significant incremental revenue for major brands in industries such as banking, insurance, retail, and telecommunications. Headquartered in New York, Persado also has locations in several cities worldwide, including San Francisco, Chicago, Rome, Milan, Neo Irakleio, and London. The company maintains strategic partnerships with firms like Emarsys and Listrak to enhance its offerings.

Driven

Series B in 2014
Driven, Inc. is the industry leader in Big Data application development and performance management solutions. Big Data is moving to the next phase of maturity and it’s all about the applications. The company’s flagship enterprise solution, Driven, was designed to accelerate the development and management of enterprise data applications. Driven is the industry’s leading application performance monitoring and management solution for Big Data applications. It provides the deep insights, performance monitoring, and remediation for big data applications. Supporting all the major big data processing frameworks Apache Hive, MapReduce, Cascading, Scalding and Apache Spark, Driven provides the visibility organizations need to manage the performance of all their enterprise big data applications. Driven, Inc. offers open source technology and commercial products and services for organizations in the business of data. Our users span a broad spectrum of industries including Social Media, Retail, Financial Services, Telecommunications, Bioinformatics, and Geospatial. Driven, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco, CA. Privately held company with funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Rembrandt Venture Partners, and True Ventures.

Optimizely

Series B in 2014
Optimizely, Inc. operates a website optimization platform that offers A/B testing, multivariate testing, and website personalization, catering to both technical and non-technical users. The platform facilitates data-driven decision-making through experiments that enhance user engagement and conversion rates. It integrates web content management, digital experience software, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics into a single solution, making it accessible to a diverse range of clients, including agencies, e-commerce businesses, and small enterprises. Optimizely serves a global clientele, with a presence in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain, among other countries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company also has offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Austin. Optimizely functions as a subsidiary of EPiServer AB.

Redis

Series A in 2013
Redis is an open-source in-memory data structure platform developed for use as a database, cache, and message broker. Officially sponsored by Redis Ltd., the platform supports various data structures, including strings, hashes, lists, and sets, while providing features such as built-in replication, Lua scripting, and transaction management. Designed to enhance performance, Redis allows users to store data in memory, significantly reducing latency and improving throughput for applications. It offers high availability through Redis Sentinel and supports automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. Since its inception in 2011, Redis has become a leader in caching solutions, serving over 10,000 customers globally and establishing a strong presence in major cities such as San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv. The company aims to help digital businesses innovate and improve app speed through its cloud and on-premises database solutions.

Optimizely

Series A in 2013
Optimizely, Inc. operates a website optimization platform that offers A/B testing, multivariate testing, and website personalization, catering to both technical and non-technical users. The platform facilitates data-driven decision-making through experiments that enhance user engagement and conversion rates. It integrates web content management, digital experience software, multi-channel marketing, and predictive analytics into a single solution, making it accessible to a diverse range of clients, including agencies, e-commerce businesses, and small enterprises. Optimizely serves a global clientele, with a presence in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Spain, among other countries. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company also has offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, and Austin. Optimizely functions as a subsidiary of EPiServer AB.

Persado

Series A in 2013
Persado Inc. develops artificial intelligence-driven marketing language solutions designed to enhance customer engagement and drive revenue. The company offers a suite of products, including Pro Email for optimizing email subject lines, Pro Social for generating effective social media ads, and Persado Enterprise and Persado One for personalized, emotion-driven language across various consumer touchpoints. Persado's platform leverages machine learning and natural language generation, trained on extensive datasets, to create compelling content that resonates with target audiences. This technology has demonstrated an average conversion lift of 41%, contributing to significant incremental revenue for major brands in industries such as banking, insurance, retail, and telecommunications. Headquartered in New York, Persado also has locations in several cities worldwide, including San Francisco, Chicago, Rome, Milan, Neo Irakleio, and London. The company maintains strategic partnerships with firms like Emarsys and Listrak to enhance its offerings.

TheFind

Series C in 2007
TheFind is a shopping search engine that simplifies the consumer shopping experience by using patented ecommerce technology. It allows users to search various online stores for a wide range of products, including apparel, electronics, home goods, and more. The platform offers personalized recommendations based on users' activity, tastes, and preferences, helping them find the best deals and hard-to-find items. Additionally, TheFind organizes shopping activity, enabling users to track their purchases, shipments, and receipts efficiently. The service is accessible through its website and mobile applications available on iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. Based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, TheFind is supported by venture funding from Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Redpoint Ventures.
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