Bain Capital
Bain Capital is a Boston-based multi-asset alternative investment firm that sources, funds, and manages investments across private equity, venture capital, credit, and public equity. Founded in 1984, it operates globally with specialized units focused on growth and buyout investments, life sciences, and impact-oriented opportunities. The firm backs companies across sectors including healthcare and life sciences, technology, software and data services, financial services, consumer, manufacturing, and industrials, spanning from early-stage ventures to growth equity and large-scale acquisitions. It emphasizes value creation through strategic support and partnerships, leveraging deep operating experience and a global network. Its life sciences arm targets pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostic companies; the Double Impact unit pursues market-rate returns alongside measurable social and environmental benefits; Bain Capital Ventures backs technology-enabled businesses from seed to growth across enterprise software, infrastructure, and services. The firm maintains offices in Boston and major markets worldwide, aiming to deliver competitive returns while supporting innovation and economic development.
Jennifer Davis
Partner, Private Equity, Consumer and Retail Vertical and Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Liraz Evenor
Managing Director Private Equity and Director in the Consumer and Retail Vertical & Member of the Portfolio Group for North America Private Equity
Alison Holmes
Principal, Private Equity and Consumer, Retail and Dining Vertical & Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Andrew Kaplan
Partner, Private Equity and Healthcare Vertical and Member Of The North American Private Equity Team
Christopher Kastner
Managing Director, Portfolio Group and Member of the North American Private Equity team
Phillip Loughlin
Partner, Global Head of the Financial and Business Services Vertical and Member of the Consumer / Retail Vertical
James Mackey
Principal, Private Equity and Technology Vertical and Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Giacomo Massetti
Managing Director, Consumer and Industrial Verticals and Member of the European Private Equity team
Cara Nealon
Senior Vice President, Portfolio Group and Member of the North American Private Equity Team
Radhika Subramanian
Principal, Consumer, Retail and Financial services and a Member of the Asia Pacific Private Equity team
Past deals in Illinois
Surf Internet
Private Equity Round in 2025
Surf Internet specializes in fiber optic and wireless broadband services for residential customers, businesses, educational institutions, and municipalities across Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. It offers high-speed internet plans tailored to diverse usage needs, ensuring reliable connectivity for activities like streaming, gaming, and remote work. The company focuses on expanding its network infrastructure to improve service availability and performance, accompanied by dedicated customer support.
Sikich
Private Equity Round in 2024
Sikich is a Chicago-based professional services firm offering expert business advisory services tailored to middle-market businesses. The company provides a range of services including accounting, audit, tax, and consulting services.
Surf Internet
Private Equity Round in 2023
Surf Internet specializes in fiber optic and wireless broadband services for residential customers, businesses, educational institutions, and municipalities across Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. It offers high-speed internet plans tailored to diverse usage needs, ensuring reliable connectivity for activities like streaming, gaming, and remote work. The company focuses on expanding its network infrastructure to improve service availability and performance, accompanied by dedicated customer support.
Zero Hash
Series D in 2022
Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that enables businesses to integrate digital assets into their customer experience via API endpoints. It offers secure custody for both fiat and digital assets, handles regulatory compliance, and provides turnkey solutions for digital asset trading, crypto-backed rewards, and round-ups programs.
Shipbob
Series E in 2021
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
FourKites
Series D in 2021
FourKites provides a software platform for freight brokers and shippers to streamline operations through real-time shipment tracking across shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers, and brokers. It offers an AI-driven control tower and a real-time visibility network that creates digital twins of the supply chain and uses AI-powered tools to automate resolution, enhance collaboration, and enable real-time execution. The platform provides predictive capabilities to track shipment locations, forecast arrivals, monitor load temperatures, and process actionable data from trucks, trailers, and cargo ships, helping businesses reduce costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen customer relationships. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Venminder
Series C in 2020
Venminder, Inc. is a provider of a software-as-a-service platform focused on third-party risk management. Founded in 2001 and based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with an additional office in Chicago, Venminder offers a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to assess, monitor, and manage risks associated with third-party vendors. The platform includes various modules for vendor profile management, contract management, risk assessments, and compliance oversight. Additionally, Venminder provides services such as document collection, financial statement analysis, security reviews, and vendor monitoring. The company's offerings cater to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, educational institutions, and retail. Previously known as Digital Comply, Inc., Venminder rebranded in April 2016 to better reflect its focus on vendor risk management.
Shipbob
Series D in 2020
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
Zero Hash
Series C in 2020
Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that enables businesses to integrate digital assets into their customer experience via API endpoints. It offers secure custody for both fiat and digital assets, handles regulatory compliance, and provides turnkey solutions for digital asset trading, crypto-backed rewards, and round-ups programs.
Kalderos
Series B in 2020
Kalderos, Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in drug discount management solutions. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with an additional location in Brookfield, Wisconsin, Kalderos offers a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform designed to analyze and optimize the coordination of drug discount programs for healthcare providers, manufacturers, and payers. The platform employs advanced models and machine learning processes to identify and resolve non-compliance issues, detect inconsistencies, and provide data management capabilities. By offering features such as claims verification, dispute resolution, and discount monitoring, Kalderos enables its clients to streamline the communication and payment processes associated with drug discounts, ultimately eliminating waste and enhancing efficiency in the healthcare system.
Broadstep Behavorial Health
Private Equity Round in 2020
Broadstep Behavioral Health specializes in providing a comprehensive range of behavioral health and supportive living services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), mental illness, and co-occurring disorders. The organization serves over 1,300 individuals across 86 facilities in states including Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Jersey, Illinois, and South Carolina. Broadstep focuses on delivering physical, emotional, and mental support through various programs, including residential, educational, and vocational services. The aim is to create safe and nurturing environments where individuals feel valued and supported, fostering personal growth and community integration.
Venminder
Series B in 2019
Venminder, Inc. is a provider of a software-as-a-service platform focused on third-party risk management. Founded in 2001 and based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with an additional office in Chicago, Venminder offers a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to assess, monitor, and manage risks associated with third-party vendors. The platform includes various modules for vendor profile management, contract management, risk assessments, and compliance oversight. Additionally, Venminder provides services such as document collection, financial statement analysis, security reviews, and vendor monitoring. The company's offerings cater to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, educational institutions, and retail. Previously known as Digital Comply, Inc., Venminder rebranded in April 2016 to better reflect its focus on vendor risk management.
Hireology
Series D in 2019
Hireology is a cloud-based hiring management platform that helps organizations source, engage, hire, and onboard talent across multiple locations. The all-in-one system supports candidate sourcing, screening, assessments, interview guides, background checks, and skills verification, and it centralizes onboarding, payroll, and benefits administration. The platform includes a hosted career site, integrated job postings, and franchisor/franchisee capabilities, enabling franchise systems, banks and financial institutions, healthcare providers, dealer networks, and other multi-site operations to build and manage teams more efficiently. Based in Chicago, Hireology was founded in 2009.
FourKites
Series C in 2019
FourKites provides a software platform for freight brokers and shippers to streamline operations through real-time shipment tracking across shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers, and brokers. It offers an AI-driven control tower and a real-time visibility network that creates digital twins of the supply chain and uses AI-powered tools to automate resolution, enhance collaboration, and enable real-time execution. The platform provides predictive capabilities to track shipment locations, forecast arrivals, monitor load temperatures, and process actionable data from trucks, trailers, and cargo ships, helping businesses reduce costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen customer relationships. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Zero Hash
Series B in 2018
Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that enables businesses to integrate digital assets into their customer experience via API endpoints. It offers secure custody for both fiat and digital assets, handles regulatory compliance, and provides turnkey solutions for digital asset trading, crypto-backed rewards, and round-ups programs.
Shipbob
Series C in 2018
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
Venminder
Series B in 2018
Venminder, Inc. is a provider of a software-as-a-service platform focused on third-party risk management. Founded in 2001 and based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with an additional office in Chicago, Venminder offers a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to assess, monitor, and manage risks associated with third-party vendors. The platform includes various modules for vendor profile management, contract management, risk assessments, and compliance oversight. Additionally, Venminder provides services such as document collection, financial statement analysis, security reviews, and vendor monitoring. The company's offerings cater to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, educational institutions, and retail. Previously known as Digital Comply, Inc., Venminder rebranded in April 2016 to better reflect its focus on vendor risk management.
FourKites
Series B in 2018
FourKites provides a software platform for freight brokers and shippers to streamline operations through real-time shipment tracking across shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers, and brokers. It offers an AI-driven control tower and a real-time visibility network that creates digital twins of the supply chain and uses AI-powered tools to automate resolution, enhance collaboration, and enable real-time execution. The platform provides predictive capabilities to track shipment locations, forecast arrivals, monitor load temperatures, and process actionable data from trucks, trailers, and cargo ships, helping businesses reduce costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen customer relationships. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Shipbob
Series B in 2017
Founded in 2014, Shipbob Inc. specializes in online shipping and fulfillment software for small e-commerce businesses. It aggregates services from major carriers like FedEx, UPS, and USPS, offering pickup, packaging, warehousing, batch fulfillment, and tracking solutions through its mobile app.
FourKites
Series A in 2016
FourKites provides a software platform for freight brokers and shippers to streamline operations through real-time shipment tracking across shippers, carriers, third-party logistics providers, and brokers. It offers an AI-driven control tower and a real-time visibility network that creates digital twins of the supply chain and uses AI-powered tools to automate resolution, enhance collaboration, and enable real-time execution. The platform provides predictive capabilities to track shipment locations, forecast arrivals, monitor load temperatures, and process actionable data from trucks, trailers, and cargo ships, helping businesses reduce costs, improve on-time performance, and strengthen customer relationships. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Hireology
Series B in 2014
Hireology is a cloud-based hiring management platform that helps organizations source, engage, hire, and onboard talent across multiple locations. The all-in-one system supports candidate sourcing, screening, assessments, interview guides, background checks, and skills verification, and it centralizes onboarding, payroll, and benefits administration. The platform includes a hosted career site, integrated job postings, and franchisor/franchisee capabilities, enabling franchise systems, banks and financial institutions, healthcare providers, dealer networks, and other multi-site operations to build and manage teams more efficiently. Based in Chicago, Hireology was founded in 2009.
Manicube
Series A in 2014
Manicube is a service-oriented company that aims to enhance the lives of working women by transforming personal care services. It specializes in providing quick and affordable manicure services directly at the workplace, catering to busy professionals. By partnering with corporate HR departments, Manicube facilitates licensed nail technicians to deliver 15-minute manicures in convenient locations such as conference rooms or employee service areas. The company's offerings extend beyond manicures to include male grooming services, thus addressing a wider audience within the corporate environment. Customers can easily manage their appointments through the company's website, allowing them to book, modify, and pay for services seamlessly. Operating in key markets including New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston, Manicube is dedicated to making personal care accessible to professionals during their workday.
Venminder
Venture Round in 2013
Venminder, Inc. is a provider of a software-as-a-service platform focused on third-party risk management. Founded in 2001 and based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with an additional office in Chicago, Venminder offers a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to assess, monitor, and manage risks associated with third-party vendors. The platform includes various modules for vendor profile management, contract management, risk assessments, and compliance oversight. Additionally, Venminder provides services such as document collection, financial statement analysis, security reviews, and vendor monitoring. The company's offerings cater to a diverse range of industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, educational institutions, and retail. Previously known as Digital Comply, Inc., Venminder rebranded in April 2016 to better reflect its focus on vendor risk management.
Nanosphere
Series D in 2006
Nanosphere, Inc. is a healthcare company specializing in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of molecular diagnostic tests for infectious diseases and drug resistance markers. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, Nanosphere offers the Verigene System, a molecular diagnostics platform that enables sensitive genomic and protein testing from a single workstation. This system allows for rapid testing—typically completed in hours rather than days—enhancing disease detection and optimal patient treatment. The Verigene System incorporates innovative microfluidics technology, utilizing gold nanoparticles to capture proteins and nucleic acids from clinical samples, such as blood. Nanosphere primarily serves hospital-based laboratories and academic research institutions across the United States, aiming to improve healthcare outcomes and economics through advanced diagnostic capabilities. As of June 2016, Nanosphere operates as a subsidiary of Luminex Corporation.
Network Intelligence
Series C in 2005
Network Intelligence Corporation provides security information and event management solutions. Its products include enVision that collects and protects data, as well as provides security and compliance analysis, and reporting and alerting solutions; Intelligence Engine software/hardware network security appliances for security information and event management market; and LogSmart Internet Protocol Database, which provides architecture to collect and protect the data from various Internet protocol devices. The company's strategic partners include Microsoft; NetworkAppliance; IBM; EMC2; EDS; Check Point Software Technologies, Ltd.; and Juniper Networks. Network Intelligence Corporation was formerly known as OpenSystems.com, Inc. and changed its name to Network Intelligence Corporation. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Westwood, Massachusetts. It also has offices in Rancho Santa Margarita, California; Chicago, Illinois; Alpharetta, Georgia; Seabrook, Texas; Arlington, Virginia; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Paris, France; and London.
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