Bain Capital

Venture capital firm

Full-spectrum venture firm investing from seed through growth stage in apps, infrastructure, commerce, fintech, healthcare, physical AI, and security.

At a glance

Bain Capital appears in 4 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2025. Its most recent tracked deal was Atoms' $1.7B Series A round (Jul 22, 2026). ValueAddVC also tracks 3 funds managed by Bain Capital.

Strategy

Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
AppsInfrastructureCommerceFintechHealthcarePhysical AISecurity
Geographies
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Check size
$1M–$100M

Recent changes

  1. Sep 17, 2026Bain Capital Ventures Raises $1.6B To Bet On 'Life After AGI' Pulse story
  2. Sep 16, 2026Bain Capital Ventures Closes $1.6B Fund For 'Post-AGI' Bets Pulse story
  3. Sep 5, 2026Check size updated: $1M–$100M baincapitalventures.com
  4. Sep 5, 2026Stages updated: Seed, Series A, Series B, Growth baincapitalventures.com
  5. Sep 5, 2026Sectors updated: Apps, Infrastructure, Commerce, Fintech, Healthcare, Physical AI, Security baincapitalventures.com
Earlier changes (8)
  1. Jul 22, 2026Invested in Atoms (Series A, $1.7B) TechCrunch
  2. Jul 10, 2026Invested in Oratomic (Series A, $300M) TechCrunch
  3. Jul 1, 2026Invested in Beeline Medicines (extension, $126.3M) Fierce Biotech
  4. Jul 1, 2026Bain, CPP and Bristol Myers Add $126M to Beeline's Lupus Pipeline Pulse story
  5. Jan 2025Invested in Norm AI (Strategic investment, $48M) Norm Ai
  6. 2023New fund: Bain Capital Fund X ($1.44B) Wikipedia
  7. 2021New fund: Bain Capital Fund IX ($950M) Wikipedia
  8. Jul 8, 2016New fund: Bain Capital Venture Fund 2016 ($600M) SEC EDGAR Form D

Funds

3
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Bain Capital Fund X2023$1.44BOther
As of 2023Wikipedia
Bain Capital Fund IX2021$950MOther
As of 2021Wikipedia
Bain Capital Venture Fund 20162016$600MVenture
As of Jul 8, 2016SEC EDGAR Form D

Portfolio

11 total

Recent Investment Activity

4

Track record: led 0 and participated in 4 of 4 tracked venture rounds · 3 in the last 12 months

DateCompanyEventRoleAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Jul 22, 2026AtomsSeries AParticipated$1.7B—TechCrunch
Jul 10, 2026OratomicSeries AParticipated$300M$7 billionTechCrunch
Jul 2026Beeline MedicinesextensionParticipated$126.3M—Fierce Biotech
Jan 2025Norm AIStrategic investmentParticipated$48M—
VanguardunverifiedBlackstone (Tech Hub)unverifiedBain CapitalunverifiedCiti VenturesunverifiedCoatue ManagementunverifiedTIAA
Norm Ai

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
4 · 36%
Biotech
2 · 18%
Robotics
1 · 9%
Developer tools
1 · 9%
Legal tech
1 · 9%
Quantum computing
1 · 9%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series A
2 · 50%
extension
1 · 25%
Strategic investment
1 · 25%

Co-Investors

12

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Value Add Research

Latest Pulse

  1. Bitcoin Insurer Meanwhile Raises $37.5M, Backed By AltmanBitcoin-native life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million from existing backers, including OpenAI's Sam Altman, as it expands its all-crypto policies to wealthy clients in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.→
  2. Corridor Raises $25M To Rebuild SMB Health BenefitsCorridor raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to build an AI-native health insurance brokerage for businesses with 1 to 100 employees, a segment traditional brokers often deprioritize.→
  3. AI Infrastructure Financing Just Broke Its Own CeilingCrusoe's $3.9B raise and Bain Capital Ventures' $1.6B 'post-AGI' fund landed in the same 24 hours, and both are the same bet: the compute and services layer under AI is where the money is actually going now.→
  4. Bain Capital Ventures Raises $1.6B To Bet On 'Life After AGI'Bain Capital Ventures closed its largest fund yet, built around backing startups that sell AI-completed work itself rather than the software tools underneath it.→
  5. Bain Capital Ventures Closes $1.6B Fund For 'Post-AGI' BetsBain Capital Ventures closed its eleventh flagship fund at $1.6 billion, 14% larger than its predecessor, betting on AI agents as the primary driver of a coming 'post-AGI' economy.→
  6. Forus Triples Valuation To $3B In Series CForus raised a $150 million Series C led by Bain Capital Ventures at a $3 billion valuation, tripling its worth months after its Series B, as its AI agents automate prescription prior authorization for providers nationwide.→
  7. The WealthTech Squeeze: A $389M Fintech Week, ExplainedOnly $389 million closed across 12 fintech deals last week, the slowest pace in over a month -- and WealthTech, the one bright spot, is quietly absorbing a sector-wide funding contraction happening everywhere else in fintech.→
  8. Sam Altman's World Raises $52.5M in Crypto Token SaleThe World Foundation, steward of Sam Altman's biometric identity project, raised $52.5 million in a token sale led by Pantera Capital to expand its 'proof of human' verification network.→
  9. Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B for Physical AITravis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by Andreessen Horowitz to build AI and robotics systems for mines, factories, and logistics networks.→
  10. Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B, With Uber Investing BackTravis Kalanick's industrial robotics company Atoms closed a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber -- the company that ousted him as CEO in 2017 -- investing alongside Bain Capital and Fifth Wall.→
  11. Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7B, With an Assist From UberTravis Kalanick's industrial robotics holding company Atoms raised $1.7 billion led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Uber -- the company that ousted Kalanick in 2017 -- joining the round alongside Bain Capital and Fifth Wall.→
  12. Quantum Computing's Venture Moment Keeps CompoundingOratomic's $300 million Series A -- Khosla's largest-ever first check -- is the clearest sign yet that VCs now treat quantum computing as its own well-capitalized category, distinct from the AI infrastructure boom.→
  13. Oratomic Raises $300M to Build a 20K-Qubit Quantum ComputerOratomic, a Caltech-spinout quantum computing startup, raised a $300 million Series A to build a utility-scale quantum computer using roughly 20,000 qubits instead of the million-plus rivals are targeting.→
  14. Oratomic Raises $300M for a 20,000-Qubit Quantum ComputerCaltech-founded Oratomic raised a $300 million Series A co-led by ARCH, Spark Capital and Khosla, betting its neutral-atom architecture needs only 10,000-20,000 qubits for a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer.→
  15. Crunchbase: The Week's 10 Biggest Funding Rounds, Led by Joulent's $1.75B Energy RaiseCrunchbase News' roundup of the week's 10 biggest funding rounds (June 27-July 2) was led by Houston-based energy infrastructure provider Joulent's $1.75 billion raise from National Grid Ventures, aimed squarely at AI and compute-intensive industries' power needs. Together AI's $800M Series C and Venice AI's $65M unicorn round both placed inside the top 10, alongside biotech, legal-tech, sports and video-AI rounds spanning a genuinely broad set of categories beyond pure frontier-model AI.→
  16. Bain, CPP and Bristol Myers Add $126M to Beeline's Lupus PipelineBeeline Medicines closed a $126.3 million Series A extension from Bain Capital, CPP Investments and Bristol Myers Squibb, upsizing its total Series A to $426.3 million to fund pivotal development of afimetoran in lupus ahead of a Phase 2 readout expected in.→
  17. AI Homebuilding Platform Higharc Raises $95M Series C Led by Insight PartnersHigharc closed a $95 million Series C on June 30 led by Insight Partners, bringing total funding to $170M+. The Durham, NC-based company sells an AI-powered design-to-construction platform used by production homebuilders to automate plans, permits and buyer configuration — a category worth ~$450B in annual US residential construction.→
  18. Straiker Raises $64M Series A to Secure the Enterprise AI Agent WorkforceStraiker, which calls itself 'the agentic security company,' raised a $64 million Series A -- bringing total funding to $85 million -- to protect the enterprise AI agents that legacy security tools were never built to govern. The round was led by Marathon Management Partners with Citi Ventures, Illuminate Financial and Workday Ventures, plus existing backers Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed.→

Bain Capital FAQ

How large are Bain Capital's funds?

Bain Capital funds Value Add tracks include Bain Capital Fund X ($1.44B, 2023); Bain Capital Fund IX ($950M, 2021); Bain Capital Venture Fund 2016 ($600M, 2016), out of 3 Bain Capital funds tracked in total.

What companies has Bain Capital invested in?

Bain Capital's portfolio includes Oratomic, Etched, Cognition, Lumilens, Atoms, Chai Discovery, and 5 more tracked companies.

Who does Bain Capital co-invest with most?

In the rounds Value Add tracks, Bain Capital most often invests alongside Bain Capital Ventures (7 shared deals), Andreessen Horowitz (4 shared deals), SV Angel (4 shared deals), Accel (3 shared deals), Alkeon Capital (3 shared deals).

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