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Bain Capital Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 1984 · Active in 2026

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73 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #44 · Global · 73 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 37% 5y
67
Decacorns ↑ 200% 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 86% 5y
58

Bain Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 1984. The page below shows 73 Power Law outcomes from Bain Capital Ventures's portfolio — 67 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 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 · India · Denmark. Bain Capital Ventures ranks #44 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 73 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. USA66
  2. India1
  3. Denmark1
  4. Germany1
  5. UK1
  6. France1
  7. Israel1
  8. UAE1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech16
  2. Marketing14
  3. Other B2B Software11
  4. Cybersecurity6
  5. Transportation5
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  7. AI5
  8. Health Tech & Medtech3
  9. Biotech & Life Sciences3
  10. Energy2
  11. Edtech1
  12. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+46
  2. Series A16
  3. Seed8
01 · Portfolio market map

Bain Capital Ventures's 73 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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73 of 73 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

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

164 founders across the 73 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 States68
India31
United Kingdom9
Italy6
Denmark4
France3
Vietnam3
Israel2
Australia2
Germany2
+3 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University13
University of Oxford5
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras4
NYU Stern School of Business4
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
University of California, San Diego4
University of Pretoria3
Anna University3
University of Kentucky3
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign3
+75 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google10
Yahoo!8
Microsoft6
PayPal6
Meta5
Apple4
Uber4
Coinbase2
Tradeshift2
Rackspace2
+72 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 Capital Ventures.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
04 · Compare with peers

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 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 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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