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.
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.
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
Unrated 3 Not yet scored
Rest of Portfolio
1 further portfolio companies that don’t yet have a provider page on the network.
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 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.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- 1 SendGrid 77
- 2 LinkedIn 75.1
- 3 Optimizely 75.1
- 4 Bloomreach 73.7
- 5 Attentive 73.4
- 6 6sense 73.1
- 7 Hightouch 70.6
- 8 Finix 70.4
- 9 Mirakl 68.7
- 10 socure 64.3
- 1 Hightouch 61.2
- 2 Mirakl 59.7
- 3 Bloomreach 58.5
- 4 mParticle 50.5
- 5 6sense 50.4
- 6 LinkedIn 44.1
- 7 Klutch 44.1
- 8 Moveworks 42.3
- 9 SendGrid 41.2
- 10 Optimizely 39.4
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