Bain Capital Ventures

Bain Capital Ventures is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing across all stages of a company’s growth, from seed funding to growth equity. Founded in 1984 and based in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in New York, San Francisco, and Palo Alto, the firm focuses on high-growth sectors such as fintech, enterprise software, and data-driven industries. It has a notable history of helping launch and commercialize over 200 companies, including recognizable names like LinkedIn and DocuSign. Bain Capital Ventures manages approximately $3 billion in assets, with investments typically ranging from $1 million to $100 million, and has a strong preference for technology-enabled businesses that disrupt traditional markets. The firm actively seeks opportunities in diverse areas including healthcare, e-commerce, and application software, positioning itself as a significant player in the venture capital landscape.

Agarwal, Ajay

Partner

Anastos, Steve

Principal

Braley, Allison

Partner

Chaikof, Richie

Associate

Zeeza Cole

Principal

Pascal Croak

Investor

Leslie Crowe

Partner

Kristie Han

Principal

Hinkfuss, Sarah

Partner

Hummer, Merritt

Partner

Greg Mervine

Associate

Abby Meyers

Principal

Saanya Ojha

Partner

Enrique Salem

Partner

Slater Stich Ph.D

Partner

Zhang, Kevin

Partner

Paul Zurlo

Partner and COO

Past deals in Illinois

ShipBob

Series E in 2021
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).

FourKites

Series D in 2021
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

Corvus Insurance

Series C in 2021
At Corvus, we build Smart Commercial Insurance Products: policies built on data-driven underwriting. The company delivers insights to broker partners, helping to make them smarter about the complex risks their clients face. And Corvus informs the insurance buyer, helping them to be smarter about practices to mitigate risk and prevent loss.

Venminder

Series C in 2020
Venminder, Inc. is a provider of a software-as-a-service platform focused on third-party risk management. The company offers a cloud-based solution that helps organizations assess, monitor, and manage risks associated with their vendors. This platform includes various modules for vendor profile management, contract management, risk assessment, and examination preparation. Additionally, Venminder provides services such as document collection, financial statement analysis, SOC report reviews, business continuity assessments, cybersecurity evaluations, and vendor monitoring. Its clientele spans multiple industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, education, and retail. Founded in 2001 and based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with an additional office in Chicago, Venminder was previously known as Digital Comply, Inc. before its name change in April 2016.

ShipBob

Series D in 2020
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).

Zero Hash

Series C in 2020
Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). Zero Hash’s turnkey solution handles the entire back-end complexity and regulatory licensing required to offer digital asset products. Zero Hash powers neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards, and round-ups programs. and more. Clients include MoneyLion, Transak, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, and tastyworks. Zero Hash is backed by investors including Point72 Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and NYCA. Our mission is to enable businesses to easily create amazing crypto products, unlocking digital assets for everyone, everywhere. Zero Hash enables developers and businesses to focus on building experiences and products.

Kalderos

Series B in 2020
Kalderos, Inc. develops a drug discount management platform for healthcare providers, manufacturers, payers, and others in the United States. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Chicago, Illinois with a location in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Venminder

Series B in 2019
Venminder, Inc. is a provider of a software-as-a-service platform focused on third-party risk management. The company offers a cloud-based solution that helps organizations assess, monitor, and manage risks associated with their vendors. This platform includes various modules for vendor profile management, contract management, risk assessment, and examination preparation. Additionally, Venminder provides services such as document collection, financial statement analysis, SOC report reviews, business continuity assessments, cybersecurity evaluations, and vendor monitoring. Its clientele spans multiple industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, education, and retail. Founded in 2001 and based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with an additional office in Chicago, Venminder was previously known as Digital Comply, Inc. before its name change in April 2016.

Hireology

Series D in 2019
Hireology is a staffing and hiring platform for the franchise and retail-automotive industries. It was founded on a simple but powerful concept which is by analyzing the behaviors of top-performing employees, organizations can create highly accurate systems for identifying the best candidate for the job. Through its Selection Manager platform, Hireology helps decentralized organizations across all industries transform their talent acquisition, leading to better hiring decisions, lower turnover, and increased productivity and profitability at each location. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago.

FourKites

Series C in 2019
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

Zero Hash

Series B in 2018
Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). Zero Hash’s turnkey solution handles the entire back-end complexity and regulatory licensing required to offer digital asset products. Zero Hash powers neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards, and round-ups programs. and more. Clients include MoneyLion, Transak, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, and tastyworks. Zero Hash is backed by investors including Point72 Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and NYCA. Our mission is to enable businesses to easily create amazing crypto products, unlocking digital assets for everyone, everywhere. Zero Hash enables developers and businesses to focus on building experiences and products.

ShipBob

Series C in 2018
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).

Corvus Insurance

Seed Round in 2018
At Corvus, we build Smart Commercial Insurance Products: policies built on data-driven underwriting. The company delivers insights to broker partners, helping to make them smarter about the complex risks their clients face. And Corvus informs the insurance buyer, helping them to be smarter about practices to mitigate risk and prevent loss.

FourKites

Series B in 2018
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

Swift Prepaid Solutions

Acquisition in 2017
Swift delivers prepaid funds on behalf of a diverse group of corporate clients to their equally diverse target audiences—typically consumers, employees or the sales distribution channel. From consumer rebate programs to sales force incentives to emergency disaster relief for populations in need, our clients use our products to promote, incentivize, reward and pay.

ShipBob

Series B in 2017
ShipBob is a technology company that fulfills e-commerce orders for direct-to-consumer brands. As an end-to-end fulfillment solution, ShipBob provides warehousing and package delivery in 1-2 business days, with a network of fulfillment centers across the US. Its software combines order and inventory management, customer communication, predictive insights, and optimized shipping for online merchants. ShipBob’s software is also fully integrated with e-commerce platforms, including eBay, Shopify, Amazon, Magento, and many more. Based in Chicago, Illinois, ShipBob was founded in 2014 by [Divey Gulati](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/divey-gulati) and [Dhruv Saxena](http://www.crunchbase.com/person/dhruv-saxena).

FourKites

Series A in 2016
FourKites, Inc. is a Chicago-based software company that specializes in developing a predictive supply chain platform for freight brokers and shippers. Founded in 2013, it provides a real-time tracking solution that enhances the visibility of shipments for shippers, carriers, third-party logistics companies, and freight brokers. The platform includes features like BackHaul Management, which helps identify potential deadhead miles, and CarrierLink, which facilitates real-time communication between brokers and owner-operators. By leveraging AI technology, FourKites creates comprehensive digital representations of supply chains, automates problem resolution, and improves collaboration among stakeholders. This approach enables businesses to enhance operational efficiency, lower costs, and strengthen customer relationships through improved on-time performance and proactive management of shipment exceptions.

Hireology

Series B in 2014
Hireology is a staffing and hiring platform for the franchise and retail-automotive industries. It was founded on a simple but powerful concept which is by analyzing the behaviors of top-performing employees, organizations can create highly accurate systems for identifying the best candidate for the job. Through its Selection Manager platform, Hireology helps decentralized organizations across all industries transform their talent acquisition, leading to better hiring decisions, lower turnover, and increased productivity and profitability at each location. It was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Chicago.

Numerator

Series B in 2014
Numerator is a market intelligence firm that brings together omnichannel marketing, merchandising and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple for brand, retail and agency clients. Owned by Vista Equity Partners, Numerator is uniquely able to link what people buy to the reasons and influences behind their purchases, combining the power of the InfoScout OmniPanel, which to-date has captured over 500 million brick-and-mortar and ecommerce purchase receipts, and the advertising, promotion, ecommerce pricing, and digital shelf messaging that influence the path to purchase. Numerator is a primary source of real-time, path and purchase data for industry leaders such as Nike, Unilever, Samsung, Procter & Gamble, and MillerCoors.

Numerator

Series A in 2013
Numerator is a market intelligence firm that brings together omnichannel marketing, merchandising and sales data to make pursuing new possibilities simple for brand, retail and agency clients. Owned by Vista Equity Partners, Numerator is uniquely able to link what people buy to the reasons and influences behind their purchases, combining the power of the InfoScout OmniPanel, which to-date has captured over 500 million brick-and-mortar and ecommerce purchase receipts, and the advertising, promotion, ecommerce pricing, and digital shelf messaging that influence the path to purchase. Numerator is a primary source of real-time, path and purchase data for industry leaders such as Nike, Unilever, Samsung, Procter & Gamble, and MillerCoors.

Venminder

Venture Round in 2013
Venminder, Inc. is a provider of a software-as-a-service platform focused on third-party risk management. The company offers a cloud-based solution that helps organizations assess, monitor, and manage risks associated with their vendors. This platform includes various modules for vendor profile management, contract management, risk assessment, and examination preparation. Additionally, Venminder provides services such as document collection, financial statement analysis, SOC report reviews, business continuity assessments, cybersecurity evaluations, and vendor monitoring. Its clientele spans multiple industries, including financial services, insurance, healthcare, education, and retail. Founded in 2001 and based in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, with an additional office in Chicago, Venminder was previously known as Digital Comply, Inc. before its name change in April 2016.

Total Attorneys

Series A in 2012
Total Attorneys is the nation’s leading provider of cloud-based practice management software and customer acquisition for attorneys. Since 2002, Total Attorneys has connected small law firms and solo practitioners to millions of consumers, and simplified client management with a robust web-based practice management platform. For $1 per month and in one place, attorneys can receive new leads, create and manage matters, handle time and billing, manage documents, receive payments, send agreements and invoices, and allow clients to access their firm through a secure client portal. Total Attorneys has listed twice on the INC. 500 list (#169 in 2008 & #219 in 2009) and Crain’s Chicago Business Fast 50 (#2 in 2008 & #4 in 2009).

vAuto

Venture Round in 2007
vAuto, a brand under Cox Automotive since 2010, specializes in providing advanced inventory management solutions tailored for automotive dealers. The company offers a comprehensive suite of tools that integrates retail and wholesale market data with data science-driven insights, facilitating informed decision-making throughout the inventory lifecycle, from sourcing to selling. By doing so, vAuto enables dealerships to enhance their operational efficiency and maximize value. Additionally, vAuto's Performance Managers work closely with clients to ensure they fully leverage the advantages of these end-to-end solutions. Recent innovations, such as ProfitTime GPS, utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning to further empower dealers in optimizing their performance.
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