Bain & Company

Type

Other

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

18

Average round size

34M

Portfolio companies

14

Rounds per year

0.35

Lead investments

3

Follow on index

0.22

Exits

2

Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceSoftwareInformation TechnologyArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareWeb HostingWeb DevelopmentWeb BrowsersEmail

Summary

Bain & Company appeared to be the Corporate Investor, which was created in 1973. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described Corporate Investor is located in the Boston.

The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. Considering the real fund results, this Corporate Investor is 13 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2000. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2007. Comparing to the other companies, this Bain & Company performs on 4 percentage points more the average number of lead investments.

This organization was formed by Bill Bain.

The typical case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 participants. Despite the Bain & Company, startups are often financed by Talis Capital, Credo Ventures, TopMonks Startup Studio. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Talis Capital, North Castle Partners, Digital+ Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Rustic Canyon Partners, ValueVision International, Tarrant Venture Partners.

We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Web Development. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight eYak (Sonexis), Rivus Internet Group, IdeaForest. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United States. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in a number of founders of portfolio startups.

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Investor highlights

Stage focus
Seed

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
18
Lead investments
3
Exits
2
Rounds per year
0.35
Follow on index
0.22
Investments by industry
  • Software (7)
  • Enterprise Software (5)
  • Information Technology (5)
  • Artificial Intelligence (5)
  • SaaS (4)
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Investments by region
  • United States (14)
  • United Kingdom (1)
  • Germany (2)
  • Singapore (1)
Peak activity year
2023
Number of Unicorns
2
Number of Decacorns
2

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Avg. startup age at the time of investment
11
Avg. valuation at time of investment
396M
Group Appearance index
0.83
Avg. company exit year
6
Strategy success index
0.40

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ESG Flo 31 Oct 2023 Seed 5M United States, New York, New York
IdeaForest 31 May 2000 Web Hosting, Web Development, Web Browsers, Email Early Stage Venture 21M United States, California

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