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Bain Capital

Investment firm · Founded 1984 · Active in 2026

Bain Capital is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1984. The page below shows 157 Power Law outcomes from Bain Capital's portfolio — 34 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 11 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

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

157 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #239 · Global · 157 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 70% 5y
34
Decacorns ↑ 50% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 60% 5y
29
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 157 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. USA127
  2. UK5
  3. Germany3
  4. Israel2
  5. China2
  6. South Korea2
  7. Australia2
  8. Italy1
  9. India1
  10. France1
  11. Netherlands1
  12. Spain1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences38
  2. Fintech29
  3. Marketing18
  4. Other B2B Software17
  5. Cybersecurity13
  6. AI10
  7. Health Tech & Medtech7
  8. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  9. Transportation6
  10. Robotics3
  11. Other3
  12. Energy3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+33
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed2
Estimated holdings

Bain’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Bain’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 18 companies where Bain is a named shareholder, worth about $5.0B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Berlin Brands GroupConsumer Electronics · Unicorn 40% $1.8B $700M
  2. 2 CrusoeHosting · Decacorn 5.5% $10.0B $550M
  3. 3 WonderFood · Unicorn 7% $7.0B $490M
  4. 4 6SenseEnterprise Software · Unicorn 8.5% $5.2B $442M
  5. 5 HightouchMarketing · Unicorn 14% $2.8B $385M
  6. 6 DecagonMarketing · Unicorn 8% $4.5B $360M
  7. 7 14.5% $2.2B $319M
  8. 8 8.5% $3.5B $298M
  9. 9 13.2% $2.0B $264M
  10. 10 18.5% $1.0B $185M
  11. 11 18.2% $1.0B $182M
  12. 12 15% $1.2B $178M

Showing the 12 largest of 18 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Bain’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Bain also appears inside investor groups in Black Forest Labs, Cognition | Devin AI, Highspot, Socure, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Bain’s biggest exits.

Bain portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2006
Now $70.0B
IPO · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $30.6B
IPO · 2011
Now $26.2B
buyout · 2010
Now $24.2B
IPO · 2007
Now $20.0B
$12.4B IPO · 2024
Now $13.2B
$2.2B IPO · 2016
Now $12.4B
IPO · 2015
Now $9.2B
$4.5B IPO · 2018
Now $8.9B
$7.8B acquisition · 2025
$7.7B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $5.1B
buyout · 2017
Now $7.1B
$1.3B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $6.9B
$191M IPO · 2021
Now $6.8B
$174M IPO · 2020
Now $5.9B
$5.7B IPO · 2021
Now $587M
$4.9B IPO · 2021
Now $1.7B
IPO · 2009
Now $4.2B
$3.9B IPO · 2021
Now $954M
IPO · 2010
Now $3.6B
IPO · 2023
Now $3.6B
$326M IPO · 2022
Now $3.5B
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Now $1.7B
$3.3B IPO · 2021
Now $3.2B

+46 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Bain's 157 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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157 of 157 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Bain stack up?

Bain in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
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.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

271 founders across the 157 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 States93
India39
Germany26
United Kingdom15
China7
France6
Italy6
Canada4
Denmark4
Vietnam3
+8 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology9
University of Oxford7
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg6
Harvard University5
NYU Stern School of Business5
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras4
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
University of California, San Diego4
University of Pretoria3
+123 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google13
Microsoft9
Yahoo!8
Meta6
Uber5
Apple5
PayPal5
Stability AI4
Amazon3
Coinbase2
+100 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.

Market sentiment

What the market 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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Latest news about Bain Capital

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