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.

272 portfolio companies 271 publish APIs here 14 properties
Venture CapitalSeedEarly StageGrowth EquityArtificial IntelligenceAI InfrastructureFintechCommerceHealthcareSecurityPhysical AINorth America
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API Evangelist Portfolio Report
The Bain Capital Ventures API Portfolio

Every Bain Capital Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a broad, enterprise-mature book whose one exemplar already exited, and whose live agent-native edge sits in its newest fintech leads.

Read the report $750.00 · every API-bearing company in the book, scored on the Kin Score
Portfolio Strength across 268 profiled portfolio companies on the network
22 top-rated API companies 8 exemplar · 14 strong
44 agent-ready companies 2 agent-native · 42 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite emerging 24.2
Agent-Readiness human-only 11.0

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 272 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 271 (100%) publish APIs indexed here.

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

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 8 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 14 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 45 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 33 Limited public surface area
Emerging 85 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 83 Almost no public developer surface
Charta Health10.6Iodine Software (Waystar)10.5MedeAnalytics (JLL Partners)10.5Pronto10.4ScoreBig (TicketNetwork)10.2Swish10.2TerraFirma10.2Futuredontics10.0Marriage Pact9.9Gather AI9.7InfoScout (acquired by Numerator in 2017)9.7Passport (Arrive)5 APIs9.6Digital Currency Group9.2Cloudistics (Fungible)8.7SevOne (Turbonomic)8.6CQuotient8.3InAuth (American Express)8.3Reserv8.3Simile8.3BTI Systems (Juniper)7.9Tomo7.8Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics since 2012)7.6Celerion (H.I.G. Capital)7.4Corvus (Travelers)7.3Dream7.1Obvio6.4EvenUp6.3Grain6.0periodic labs6.0ScaleArc (IgniteTech)6.0Playbook5.7SigFig5.7Trooly (Airbnb)5.7Crosby5.5Dynamics5.5Lithos Carbon5.5Augtera Networks5.3Rent the Runway5.3SmartRent5.3Airside5.0AppAssure Software (Dell)5.0Awake Security (Arista Networks)5.0BuyWithMe (Gilt Groupe)5.0Color Labs Inc. (Apple)5.0Evident.io (Palo Alto Networks)5.0FogHorn Systems (Johnson Controls)5.0Hyde5.0Jet (Walmart)5.0Manicube (Elizabeth Arden Red Door)5.0Mind Robotics5.0ObserveIT (Proofpoint)5.0Onera (acquired by Lyniate in 2021)5.0Oratomic5.0Oyster.com (TripAdvisor)5.0Parative5.0Radionomy (Azerion)5.0Regulatory DataCorp5.0TapCommerce (Twitter)5.0TellApart (acquired by Twitter in 2015)5.0The Sentience Company5.0TheFind (Meta)5.0TidalScale5.0Wonder5.0Hera4.7Ndata4.3Ario4.1MyEdu4.1Nubisio (Tracxn)4.1ScaleBase4.1ShieldX (Fortinet)4.1Symphony Commerce4.1Xplenty (Xenon)4.1AbleTo3.3Apixio (Centene)3.3Humedica (UnitedHealth Group)3.3Loyal3.3Predictive Oncology (Precision Therapeutics)3.3Quanterix3.3Liazon2.3TxVia (Google)2.3National Cardiovascular Partners (Fresenius Medical Care)2.2Ricerca Biosciences2.2Edgar Online (OTC Markets Group)2.0
Unrated 3 Not yet scored

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The 268 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
268
of 271 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
24.4
+3.7 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
11.1
+1.4 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
1.5–77
median 18.5 · σ 19.2
How the 268 split by band
Exemplar 9Strong 14Developing 42Thin 35Emerging 84Minimal 84
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Access Clarity 29.2 22.3 +6.9 268
Developer Ergonomics 22.4 17.9 +4.5 268
Operational Transparency 15.5 11.3 +4.2 268
Contract Quality 19.5 17.5 +2 268
Discoverability 61.9 60.4 +1.5 268
Contract Governance 7.7 6.4 +1.3 268

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) 24% 16% +8
MCP server (first-party) 12% 7% +5
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 11% 9% +2
Security 90% 88% +2
Arazzo workflows 5% 2% +3
Governance rules 13% 13% 0

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 77
  2. 2 LinkedIn 75.1
  3. 3 Optimizely 75.1
  4. 4 Bloomreach 73.7
  5. 5 Attentive 73.4
  6. 6 6sense 73.1
  7. 7 Hightouch 70.6
  8. 8 Finix 70.4
  9. 9 Mirakl 68.7
  10. 10 socure 64.3
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Hightouch 61.2
  2. 2 Mirakl 59.7
  3. 3 Bloomreach 58.5
  4. 4 mParticle 50.5
  5. 5 6sense 50.4
  6. 6 LinkedIn 44.1
  7. 7 Klutch 44.1
  8. 8 Moveworks 42.3
  9. 9 SendGrid 41.2
  10. 10 Optimizely 39.4
This roster declares 271 members; 268 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 268 carry a score (100%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 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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