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 113 profiled portfolio companies on the network
26 top-rated API companies 12 exemplar · 14 strong
57 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 55 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 42.2
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 27.5

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 113 (42%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 156 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

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

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 12 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 14 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 42 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 23 Limited public surface area
Emerging 21 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 1 Almost no public developer surface

Rest of Portfolio

1 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.

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Firm

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Cohort brief

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The 232 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
232
of 269 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
27.3
+2.9 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
14.1
+1.4 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
2–80.9
median 21.9 · σ 19.6
How the 232 split by band
Exemplar 12Strong 14Developing 42Thin 29Emerging 83Minimal 52
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 33.6 27.2 +6.4 232
Operational Transparency 18.5 14.4 +4.1 232
Developer Ergonomics 26.6 23.8 +2.8 232
Contract Quality 22.3 20.4 +1.9 232
Discoverability 61.8 61.5 +0.3 232
Contract Governance 6.9 6.6 +0.3 232

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) 18% 11% +7
MCP server (first-party) 22% 13% +9
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 14% 12% +2
Security 97% 96% +1
Arazzo workflows 5% 2% +3
Governance rules 15% 13% +2

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 Gainsight 80.9
  2. 2 SendGrid 80
  3. 3 Optimizely 78
  4. 4 Attentive 75.8
  5. 5 LinkedIn 73.8
  6. 6 6sense 71.2
  7. 7 Mirakl 70.6
  8. 8 Bloomreach 70.4
  9. 9 Docusign 68.9
  10. 10 Moov 67.8
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 Mirakl 56.3
  6. 6 6sense 55.6
  7. 7 Krea 54
  8. 8 Pleo 52.9
  9. 9 Flux 50.4
  10. 10 GoCardless 50.3
This roster declares 269 members; 257 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 232 carry a score (90%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 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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