Venture Capital

Bain Capital Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, a multi-stage, domain-focused venture business founded in 2001 with roughly $9.4B in assets under management (as of June 30, 2025). BCV incubates ideas, leads seed rounds, and scales growth-stage companies, investing from about $1M of seed capital through $100M of growth equity and partnering with more than 400 active portfolio companies. The firm concentrates on AI Apps, AI Infrastructure, Commerce, Fintech, Healthcare, Physical AI, and Security, backing companies such as MaintainX (acquired by Autodesk), Moveworks (acquired by ServiceNow), Redis, Crusoe, Cognition, Decagon, Legora, and Sunday Robotics. BCV operates from New York City, Palo Alto, and San Francisco, and pairs its investments with a "partnerships over playbooks" platform (The Hive) supporting talent, go-to-market, and customer development.

270 portfolio companies 269 publish APIs here 14 properties
Venture CapitalSeedEarly StageGrowth EquityArtificial IntelligenceAI InfrastructureFintechCommerceHealthcareSecurityPhysical AINorth America
Portfolio Strength across 110 profiled portfolio companies on the network
28 top-rated API companies 14 exemplar · 14 strong
50 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 48 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 42.0
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 27.0

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Bain Capital Ventures has 270 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 110 (41%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 159 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are SendGrid (acquired by Twilio in 2018), Optimizely (Episerver), LinkedIn, Gainsight (Vista), Bloomreach.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 14 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
SendGrid (acquired by Twilio in 2018)44 published contracts82.9Optimizely (Episerver)38 published contracts81.3LinkedIn17 published contracts76.3Gainsight (Vista)15 published contracts75.2Bloomreach8 published contracts72.8Semantic Machines (Microsoft)17 published contracts72.7Mirakl14 published contracts72.5Attentive2 published contracts72.06sense7 published contracts71.7Turbonomic (IBM)1 published contract71.3DocuSign7 published contracts70.3TokBox44 published contracts69.7Hightouch1 published contract68.0Structify1 published contract66.6
Strong 14 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Moov Financial2 published contracts65.6Booker2 published contracts64.4Mintlify1 published contract64.2Socure3 published contracts63.6Finix1 published contract61.9HookLogic (Criteo)2 published contracts61.6Clari3 published contracts60.9Skai (Kenshoo)2 published contracts60.2mParticle4 published contracts56.8JupiterOne1 API55.8MaintainX1 published contract55.7Moveworks (ServiceNow)9 published contracts55.7Flywire3 APIs55.0Alloy2 published contracts54.7
Developing 37 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Astronomer1 published contract53.4Smallstep1 published contract53.4Qwiet2 published contracts52.7Silna1 published contract52.2Felt1 published contract49.8StarTree (Cortexdata)1 published contract49.8Fossa1 API49.6Akkio4 published contracts49.2GoCardless1 published contract49.1Argyle1 published contract48.6Ansa1 published contract47.7Reprise3 APIs46.8Sysdig2 published contracts46.8Justworks2 published contracts46.6Pleo12 published contracts46.1Wrike1 published contract45.8Cofactr1 published contract45.6Venminder (Digital Comply)2 published contracts45.5Netdata1 published contract44.6Adaptive1 published contract44.5Docker2 published contracts44.4Contextual AI1 published contract44.0Ankorstore4 published contracts43.2Emburse13 published contracts43.1Klutch1 API42.8Parafi1 published contract42.4ShopMy1 published contract42.2Unstructured3 published contracts42.2Fermat2 APIs41.9Orum1 published contract41.8Zenlytic1 published contract41.8Command E (Dropbox)2 published contracts41.6Rapid73 published contracts41.5Cleanlab1 published contract41.2Momento1 API40.8VISO Trust (Protecht)1 published contract40.4Veza1 API40.2
Thin 24 Limited public surface area
Nightfall (Shoreline Labs)1 published contract38.1Column Tax1 API38.0ShipBob1 published contract38.0Krea1 published contract37.8TruVideo1 published contract36.9AdReady (CPXi)4 published contracts36.8Rubrik1 published contract36.5Prisma SD-WAN (Palo Alto Networks)1 published contract36.2SurveyMonkey1 published contract35.3RevenueCat1 published contract34.3Reonomy (Altus Group)1 published contract33.5Whop1 published contract33.2ReCharge1 published contract33.1Lime1 published contract32.7Homebase1 API31.8BetterCloud5 APIs31.2Black Forest Labs1 published contract30.9Northflank4 APIs30.0Aqueduct1 published contract29.5TruckSmarter1 published contract29.0Nebulock1 published contract28.8Actively1 API28.4VoiceOps1 API27.1Tecton (Databricks)1 API26.5
Emerging 18 Early or largely undocumented
Lightning.AI2 APIs26.0Media Radar1 API25.0Signifyd8 APIs25.0Thoropass1 API24.7Persado1 API24.5Zelis1 API24.5TravelClick (Amadeus)1 API24.0Acorns1 API23.0Daylight1 API22.5Cube.js1 API21.0Linkable Networks (Collinson Group)1 API20.7Autoleap7 APIs20.4Decagon1 API20.0Halcyon1 API18.6Stacklok1 published contract15.7Relay Financial1 published contract14.9Airbase9 APIs13.8Legora1 API11.7
Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface
Passport (Arrive)5 APIs10.1FourKites1 API8.9Clockwise1 API0.0

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Cohort brief

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The 231 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Bain Capital Ventures, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
231
of 269 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
26.5
+3.6 vs catalog 22.9
Mean Agent Readiness
13.9
+1.9 vs catalog 12
Spread
0–82.9
median 20.4 · σ 19.9
How the 231 split by band
Exemplar 10Strong 16Developing 40Thin 30Emerging 77Minimal 58
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 32.9 26.4 +6.5 231
Operational Transparency 17.9 13.6 +4.3 231
Developer Ergonomics 26.3 23.1 +3.2 231
Contract Quality 19.7 17.6 +2.1 231
Discoverability 59.5 58.2 +1.3 231
Contract Governance 6.8 6.3 +0.5 231

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 25% 15% +10
MCP server (first-party) 22% 12% +10
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 14% 11% +3
Security 97% 98% -1
Arazzo workflows 6% 2% +4
Governance rules 14% 13% +1

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 SendGrid 82.9
  2. 2 Optimizely 81.3
  3. 3 LinkedIn 76.3
  4. 4 Gainsight 75.2
  5. 5 Bloomreach 72.8
  6. 6 Mirakl 72.5
  7. 7 Attentive 72
  8. 8 6sense 71.7
  9. 9 Docusign 70.3
  10. 10 Hightouch 68
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Bloomreach 63.7
  2. 2 Optimizely 62.5
  3. 3 Hightouch 61.2
  4. 4 Clari 58
  5. 5 6sense 55.6
  6. 6 Mirakl 54.4
  7. 7 Krea 53.5
  8. 8 Pleo 52.9
  9. 9 GoCardless 50.3
  10. 10 mParticle 48.4
This roster declares 269 members; 255 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 231 carry a score (91%). The figures above describe the scored members only.
Coverage caveat. 196 of 231 scored members had under half their catalog-attributable points satisfied at all (catalog_earned / catalog_max < 0.5). They are INCLUDED in the mean above. A large share here means the cohort mean is partly a measurement of how far our enrichment reached, not only of how these providers publish.Generated from the catalog build of 3 October 2026, across 28834 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: bain-capital-ventures
name: Bain Capital Ventures
description: >-
  Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) is the venture capital arm of Bain Capital, a
  multi-stage, domain-focused venture business founded in 2001 with roughly
  $9.4B in assets under management (as of June 30, 2025). BCV incubates ideas,
  leads seed rounds, and scales growth-stage companies, investing from about
  $1M of seed capital through $100M of growth equity and partnering with more
  than 400 active portfolio companies. The firm concentrates on AI Apps, AI
  Infrastructure, Commerce, Fintech, Healthcare, Physical AI, and Security,
  backing companies such as MaintainX (acquired by Autodesk), Moveworks
  (acquired by ServiceNow), Redis, Crusoe, Cognition, Decagon, Legora, and
  Sunday Robotics. BCV operates from New York City, Palo Alto, and San
  Francisco, and pairs its investments with a "partnerships over playbooks"
  platform (The Hive) supporting talent, go-to-market, and customer development.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://baincapitalventures.com/apple-touch-icon.png
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Growth Equity
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - AI Infrastructure
  - Fintech
  - Commerce
  - Healthcare
  - Security
  - Physical AI
  - North America
tags_raw:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Growth Equity
  - AI
  - AI Infrastructure
  - Fintech
  - Commerce
  - Healthcare
  - Security
  - Physical AI
  - North America
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/portfolio
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/bain-capital-ventures-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/team/?team=investing-team
  - type: Team
    url: team/bain-capital-ventures-team.yml
  - type: InvestmentThesis
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/about
  - type: Blog
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/insights
  - type: Newsletter
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/newsletter
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.baincapitalventures.com/jobs
  - type: Contact
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/contact
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bain-capital-ventures
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bain-capital-ventures/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://x.com/BainCapVC
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@BainCapitalVentures
  - type: Features
    data:
      - 'Stage: Seed, Early, Growth'
      - 'Typical check: $1M seed through $100M growth equity'
      - 'Sectors: AI Apps, AI Infrastructure, Commerce, Fintech, Healthcare, Physical AI, Security'
      - 'Geography: North America (US-focused)'
      - 'AUM: $9.4B (as of June 30, 2025)'
      - 'Active portfolio: 400+ companies'
      - 'Founded: 2001'
      - 'HQ: New York City; offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco'
    sources:
      - https://baincapitalventures.com/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital_Ventures
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
    url: https://apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Bain Capital Ventures
    url: https://baincapitalventures.com/

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