Bain Capital Ventures


Bain Capital Ventures LLC is the venture capital division within Bain Capital, which has approximately $105 billion of assets under management worldwide. The firm's early-stage investments have included Staples, LinkedIn, Kiva Systems, Jet.com and Shopping.com. Bain Capital Ventures manages $5.1 billion of committed capital, has over 70 active portfolio companies, and has offices in Boston, New York City, Palo Alto, and San Francisco.

Investments

Bain Capital Ventures has raised slightly over $4.9 billion of investor capital since 2001 across eight core investment funds and two co-investment funds. The firm is currently investing its eighth fund, Bain Capital Venture Fund 2019, which raised $650 million from investors. The following is a summary of Bain's private equity funds raised from its inception through the beginning of 2012:
FundVintage YearCommitted Capital
Bain Capital Venture Fund2001$250
Bain Capital Venture Partners 20052005$250
Bain Capital Venture Partners 20072007$500
Bain Capital Venture Partners 20092009$525
Bain Capital Venture Partners 20122012$660
Bain Capital Venture Partners 20142014$650, $200

Some of the company's notable investments have included: Ameritox, Apparent Networks, AppAssure Software, blip.tv, Booker Software, Fingerhut, INRIX, Kiva Systems, LinkedIn, The Princeton Review, Rave Wireless, Skyhook Wireless, Stackdriver, SurveyMonkey, TheFind, Thumbplay, Tokbox, VMTurbo, Vonage, and ZeroTurnaround.
In November 2018, Bain Capital Ventures announced it had raised $1 billion to be spread between two funds.