Bain Capital
Bain Capital is a Boston-based multi-asset alternative investment firm that sources, funds, and manages investments across private equity, venture capital, credit, and public equity. Founded in 1984, it operates globally with specialized units focused on growth and buyout investments, life sciences, and impact-oriented opportunities. The firm backs companies across sectors including healthcare and life sciences, technology, software and data services, financial services, consumer, manufacturing, and industrials, spanning from early-stage ventures to growth equity and large-scale acquisitions. It emphasizes value creation through strategic support and partnerships, leveraging deep operating experience and a global network. Its life sciences arm targets pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic companies; the Double Impact unit pursues market-rate returns alongside measurable social and environmental benefits; Bain Capital Ventures backs technology-enabled businesses from seed to growth across enterprise software, infrastructure, and services. The firm maintains offices in Boston and major markets worldwide, aiming to deliver competitive returns while supporting innovation and economic development.
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Jennifer Davis
Partner, Private Equity, Consumer and Retail Vertical and Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Liraz Evenor
Managing Director Private Equity and Director in the Consumer and Retail Vertical & Member of the Portfolio Group for North America Private Equity
Alison Holmes
Principal, Private Equity and Consumer, Retail and Dining Vertical & Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Andrew Kaplan
Partner, Private Equity and Healthcare Vertical and Member Of The North American Private Equity Team
Christopher Kastner
Managing Director, Portfolio Group and Member of the North American Private Equity team
Phillip Loughlin
Partner, Global Head of the Financial and Business Services Vertical and Member of the Consumer / Retail Vertical
James Mackey
Principal, Private Equity and Technology Vertical and Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Giacomo Massetti
Managing Director, Consumer and Industrial Verticals and Member of the European Private Equity team
Cara Nealon
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Group and Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Radhika Subramanian
Principal, Consumer, Retail and Financial services and a Member of the Asia Pacific Private Equity team
Past deals in Open Source
Cube Dev
Series B in 2024
Cube Dev provides an open-source analytical API platform that enables internal business intelligence and customer-facing analytics through a semantic layer. The semantic layer unifies business logic, centralizes governance and security, and optimizes query performance, while supporting integration with any data endpoint. Cube Cloud offers a managed infrastructure with query inspection and tracing, monitoring, and pre-aggregation management. The platform includes visualization-agnostic tools for building user interfaces and analytical APIs, and supports modern data stores to handle large data volumes with built-in security. Cube Dev serves organizations seeking scalable, governed analytics applications.
Unstructured
Series B in 2024
Unstructured is a developer of an open-source data transformation platform that simplifies the process of converting raw data, such as PDFs and Microsoft Office documents, into formats compatible with language models. The platform supports over 25 file types, including PDF, DOC, and PPTX, and offers connectors to various systems like SharePoint, S3, and Databricks. By facilitating effortless data extraction and integration into AI workflows, Unstructured enhances the accessibility of human-generated information, ensuring that it is readily available for generative AI systems. Its modular architecture allows users to incorporate any third-party model, making it a versatile solution for preprocessing natural language data for machine learning applications.
Unstructured
Series A in 2023
Unstructured is a developer of an open-source data transformation platform that simplifies the process of converting raw data, such as PDFs and Microsoft Office documents, into formats compatible with language models. The platform supports over 25 file types, including PDF, DOC, and PPTX, and offers connectors to various systems like SharePoint, S3, and Databricks. By facilitating effortless data extraction and integration into AI workflows, Unstructured enhances the accessibility of human-generated information, ensuring that it is readily available for generative AI systems. Its modular architecture allows users to incorporate any third-party model, making it a versatile solution for preprocessing natural language data for machine learning applications.
Unstructured
Seed Round in 2023
Unstructured is a developer of an open-source data transformation platform that simplifies the process of converting raw data, such as PDFs and Microsoft Office documents, into formats compatible with language models. The platform supports over 25 file types, including PDF, DOC, and PPTX, and offers connectors to various systems like SharePoint, S3, and Databricks. By facilitating effortless data extraction and integration into AI workflows, Unstructured enhances the accessibility of human-generated information, ensuring that it is readily available for generative AI systems. Its modular architecture allows users to incorporate any third-party model, making it a versatile solution for preprocessing natural language data for machine learning applications.
Smallstep
Series A in 2022
Smallstep builds an identity authority and open-source toolkit for dev/sec/ops to secure connected applications across clouds, containers, serverless, and devices. Its platform provides infrastructure components and operational tools to implement zero-trust security, enabling access to financial data, code repositories, and other sensitive resources from company-managed devices and delivery pipelines, with the goal of reducing reliance on VPNs and firewalls while integrating security into software delivery.
Docker
Series C in 2022
Docker develops an open container platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications. The platform enables developers and operations teams to package applications into portable containers that run consistently across laptops, on-premises data centers, and public cloud environments. It provides container runtime and packaging tools, development language support and tooling for building, scaling, deploying, and load balancing, and a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows. Founded in 2008 and based in San Francisco, the company aims to simplify application development and accelerate delivery from code to the cloud.
Gradle Enterprise
Series C in 2021
Gradle Inc. is a company that specializes in enhancing developer productivity through its innovative software solutions, notably Develocity, which was formerly known as Gradle Enterprise. The firm is also the creator of the widely used open-source Gradle Build Tool, which sees over 30 million downloads each month. Gradle is at the forefront of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE), a practice adopted by prominent organizations such as Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and Netflix. These elite teams utilize Develocity’s advanced technologies and analytics to accelerate build and test performance, thereby improving the reliability of their developer toolchains and streamlining the troubleshooting of failures. By automating and unifying the build processes, Gradle enables enterprises to effectively build, deliver, and maintain complex applications, thereby enhancing their capability to ship software efficiently and cost-effectively.
Cube Dev
Series A in 2021
Cube Dev provides an open-source analytical API platform that enables internal business intelligence and customer-facing analytics through a semantic layer. The semantic layer unifies business logic, centralizes governance and security, and optimizes query performance, while supporting integration with any data endpoint. Cube Cloud offers a managed infrastructure with query inspection and tracing, monitoring, and pre-aggregation management. The platform includes visualization-agnostic tools for building user interfaces and analytical APIs, and supports modern data stores to handle large data volumes with built-in security. Cube Dev serves organizations seeking scalable, governed analytics applications.
FOSSA
Series B in 2020
FOSSA, Inc. is an open source management platform based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in providing solutions for component intelligence, continuous compliance, and collaboration across teams. Its flagship product enables enterprises to track and manage open-source components within their codebase while automating the processes of license scanning and compliance. FOSSA's platform also incorporates vulnerability management features, allowing businesses to conduct license audits and vulnerability scans efficiently. By offering real-time alerts and automated remediation for third-party vulnerabilities, FOSSA facilitates compliance with open source licenses in alignment with development workflows.
Armory
Series C in 2020
Armory operates an open-source deployment platform, commercializing the Spinnaker tool originally developed by Netflix and Google. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker for cloud-based management, Armory Deploy for on-premises installation, and Armory Elevate for preventing bad deployments. Founded in 2016, Armory is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Cube Dev
Seed Round in 2020
Cube Dev provides an open-source analytical API platform that enables internal business intelligence and customer-facing analytics through a semantic layer. The semantic layer unifies business logic, centralizes governance and security, and optimizes query performance, while supporting integration with any data endpoint. Cube Cloud offers a managed infrastructure with query inspection and tracing, monitoring, and pre-aggregation management. The platform includes visualization-agnostic tools for building user interfaces and analytical APIs, and supports modern data stores to handle large data volumes with built-in security. Cube Dev serves organizations seeking scalable, governed analytics applications.
Nebulous
Seed Round in 2020
Nebulous, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform tailored for developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files, enabling fast streaming. As a core contributor to the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.
Redis
Series F in 2020
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
Hazelcast
Series D in 2020
Hazelcast, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an open-source clustering and scalable data distribution platform tailored for Java applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional research and development office in Istanbul, Turkey, Hazelcast offers a suite of products including an in-memory data grid solution, a stream processing engine called Hazelcast Jet, and a web-based management tool for monitoring and managing clusters. The company's platform integrates high-performance stream processing with rapid data management, enabling businesses to effectively handle transactional, operational, and analytical workloads. Organizations worldwide leverage Hazelcast's solutions to simplify real-time architectures, enhance business-critical processes, and support AI and machine learning deployments, ultimately driving efficiency and revenue while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.
FOSSA
Series A in 2019
FOSSA, Inc. is an open source management platform based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in providing solutions for component intelligence, continuous compliance, and collaboration across teams. Its flagship product enables enterprises to track and manage open-source components within their codebase while automating the processes of license scanning and compliance. FOSSA's platform also incorporates vulnerability management features, allowing businesses to conduct license audits and vulnerability scans efficiently. By offering real-time alerts and automated remediation for third-party vulnerabilities, FOSSA facilitates compliance with open source licenses in alignment with development workflows.
Armory
Series B in 2019
Armory operates an open-source deployment platform, commercializing the Spinnaker tool originally developed by Netflix and Google. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker for cloud-based management, Armory Deploy for on-premises installation, and Armory Elevate for preventing bad deployments. Founded in 2016, Armory is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Nebulous
Seed Round in 2019
Nebulous, Inc. is a technology company focused on developing blockchain hardware and software infrastructure for the decentralized internet. Founded in 2014 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, the company is known for its flagship product, Sia, a decentralized cloud storage platform that utilizes blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace. Additionally, Nebulous offers Skynet, a decentralized content delivery network (CDN) and file-sharing platform tailored for developers, along with SiaStream, which provides affordable storage solutions for media files, enabling fast streaming. As a core contributor to the open-source Skynet project, Nebulous plays a significant role in advancing the decentralized web ecosystem.
Hazelcast
Series D in 2019
Hazelcast, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an open-source clustering and scalable data distribution platform tailored for Java applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional research and development office in Istanbul, Turkey, Hazelcast offers a suite of products including an in-memory data grid solution, a stream processing engine called Hazelcast Jet, and a web-based management tool for monitoring and managing clusters. The company's platform integrates high-performance stream processing with rapid data management, enabling businesses to effectively handle transactional, operational, and analytical workloads. Organizations worldwide leverage Hazelcast's solutions to simplify real-time architectures, enhance business-critical processes, and support AI and machine learning deployments, ultimately driving efficiency and revenue while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.
Redis
Series E in 2019
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
Gradle Enterprise
Series B in 2018
Gradle Inc. is a company that specializes in enhancing developer productivity through its innovative software solutions, notably Develocity, which was formerly known as Gradle Enterprise. The firm is also the creator of the widely used open-source Gradle Build Tool, which sees over 30 million downloads each month. Gradle is at the forefront of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE), a practice adopted by prominent organizations such as Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and Netflix. These elite teams utilize Develocity’s advanced technologies and analytics to accelerate build and test performance, thereby improving the reliability of their developer toolchains and streamlining the troubleshooting of failures. By automating and unifying the build processes, Gradle enables enterprises to effectively build, deliver, and maintain complex applications, thereby enhancing their capability to ship software efficiently and cost-effectively.
CoinAlpha
Seed Round in 2018
CoinAlpha, Inc. is a FinTech software engineering firm based in Mountain View, California, founded in 2017. The company specializes in developing technologies that enable traders, developers, and fintech firms to create contract-based financial products. CoinAlpha is known for its open-source initiatives, including the Basket Protocol for Ethereum tokens and the Fund Protocol for fund administration. The company has also created Hummingbot, a leading open-source software for building market-making and arbitrage bots, which empowers users to manage token liquidity effectively. Additionally, CoinAlpha operates Hummingbot Miner, a liquidity mining platform that allows users to earn rewards by running market-making bots on specific trading pairs. The concept of liquidity mining was first introduced by CoinAlpha in a 2019 whitepaper. The founders bring extensive experience in investment banking and trading, complemented by engineering and product leadership backgrounds in notable Silicon Valley companies. CoinAlpha has successfully raised $14.8 million in funding from various investors.
Armory
Series A in 2018
Armory operates an open-source deployment platform, commercializing the Spinnaker tool originally developed by Netflix and Google. Its products include Hosted Spinnaker for cloud-based management, Armory Deploy for on-premises installation, and Armory Elevate for preventing bad deployments. Founded in 2016, Armory is headquartered in San Mateo, California.
Redis
Series D in 2017
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
FOSSA
Seed Round in 2017
FOSSA, Inc. is an open source management platform based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 2014, the company specializes in providing solutions for component intelligence, continuous compliance, and collaboration across teams. Its flagship product enables enterprises to track and manage open-source components within their codebase while automating the processes of license scanning and compliance. FOSSA's platform also incorporates vulnerability management features, allowing businesses to conduct license audits and vulnerability scans efficiently. By offering real-time alerts and automated remediation for third-party vulnerabilities, FOSSA facilitates compliance with open source licenses in alignment with development workflows.
Smallstep
Seed Round in 2016
Smallstep builds an identity authority and open-source toolkit for dev/sec/ops to secure connected applications across clouds, containers, serverless, and devices. Its platform provides infrastructure components and operational tools to implement zero-trust security, enabling access to financial data, code repositories, and other sensitive resources from company-managed devices and delivery pipelines, with the goal of reducing reliance on VPNs and firewalls while integrating security into software delivery.
Redis
Series C in 2016
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
Gradle Enterprise
Series A in 2016
Gradle Inc. is a company that specializes in enhancing developer productivity through its innovative software solutions, notably Develocity, which was formerly known as Gradle Enterprise. The firm is also the creator of the widely used open-source Gradle Build Tool, which sees over 30 million downloads each month. Gradle is at the forefront of Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE), a practice adopted by prominent organizations such as Airbnb, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Nasdaq, and Netflix. These elite teams utilize Develocity’s advanced technologies and analytics to accelerate build and test performance, thereby improving the reliability of their developer toolchains and streamlining the troubleshooting of failures. By automating and unifying the build processes, Gradle enables enterprises to effectively build, deliver, and maintain complex applications, thereby enhancing their capability to ship software efficiently and cost-effectively.
Redis
Series B in 2015
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
Hazelcast
Series B in 2014
Hazelcast, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an open-source clustering and scalable data distribution platform tailored for Java applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional research and development office in Istanbul, Turkey, Hazelcast offers a suite of products including an in-memory data grid solution, a stream processing engine called Hazelcast Jet, and a web-based management tool for monitoring and managing clusters. The company's platform integrates high-performance stream processing with rapid data management, enabling businesses to effectively handle transactional, operational, and analytical workloads. Organizations worldwide leverage Hazelcast's solutions to simplify real-time architectures, enhance business-critical processes, and support AI and machine learning deployments, ultimately driving efficiency and revenue while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.
Redis
Series A in 2013
Redis is an open-source, in-memory data structure store that functions as a database, cache, and message broker. It stores data in memory for fast access and supports data structures including strings, hashes, lists, sets, and sorted sets, as well as bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams. The platform offers built-in replication, Lua scripting, eviction policies, and multiple persistence options, along with high availability via Redis Sentinel and automatic partitioning with Redis Cluster. It provides cloud and on-premise databases for caching and other workloads, helping organizations deliver fast, scalable applications. Originating from an open-source project in 2011, Redis has grown to serve thousands of customers worldwide and maintains a global presence with offices in San Francisco, Austin, London, and Tel Aviv and an active community around the project.
Hazelcast
Series A in 2013
Hazelcast, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in developing an open-source clustering and scalable data distribution platform tailored for Java applications. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional research and development office in Istanbul, Turkey, Hazelcast offers a suite of products including an in-memory data grid solution, a stream processing engine called Hazelcast Jet, and a web-based management tool for monitoring and managing clusters. The company's platform integrates high-performance stream processing with rapid data management, enabling businesses to effectively handle transactional, operational, and analytical workloads. Organizations worldwide leverage Hazelcast's solutions to simplify real-time architectures, enhance business-critical processes, and support AI and machine learning deployments, ultimately driving efficiency and revenue while maintaining a low total cost of ownership.
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