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.
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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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 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.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- 1 Gainsight 80.9
- 2 SendGrid 80
- 3 Optimizely 78
- 4 Attentive 75.8
- 5 LinkedIn 73.8
- 6 6sense 71.2
- 7 Mirakl 70.6
- 8 Bloomreach 70.4
- 9 Docusign 68.9
- 10 Moov 67.8
- 1 Bloomreach 63.7
- 2 Optimizely 62.5
- 3 Hightouch 61.2
- 4 Clari 58
- 5 Mirakl 56.3
- 6 6sense 55.6
- 7 Krea 54
- 8 Pleo 52.9
- 9 Flux 50.4
- 10 GoCardless 50.3
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