Team InfoScout in Mexico for company offsite – June 2017 Today, our portfolio company InfoScout announced its combination with Vista Partners-backed Market Track. We are thrilled for the founders Jared Schrieber and Jon Brelig, as well as for the entire team! We were fortunate to lead the Series A for InfoScout in early 2013 and over the course of four […]
ShipBob’s Brooklyn Warehouse A few weeks ago, on a Sunday morning, our family’s NutriBullet smoothie maker broke. I diagnosed that we needed a new blade and immediately jumped on the web to buy one. I first went to Jet.com and Amazon, confident that if in stock, our new blade would arrive Monday or worst-case Tuesday but unfortunately, neither site had […]
Announcing our Series A Investment in FourKites The movement of physical goods is a massive undertaking in every industry – healthcare, industrials, retail, consumer products, etc. The demands of businesses and consumers are increasing: we want our goods to be delivered on time and in a matter of days, not weeks. At the same time, growth in over-the-road freight […]
Originally published on TechCrunch.com – May 20, 2016. Ajay Agarwal leads the West Coast team for Bain Capital Ventures, which he joined 13 years ago. Because he he has seen some market zigs and zags, we met him for coffee this week to talk about what he’s seeing in the market right now. Our chat has been edited for length. TC: Bain Capital Ventures opened […]
Originally published on VentureBeat.com – March 19, 2016. We’re seeing a lot of gloom and doom in the SaaS space and the techworld in general as valuation multiples have compressed and late-stage funding has become more challenging. However, there still exists tremendous opportunity to build large, valuable companies in the SaaS space. How can an entrepreneur do this? Build a […]
Note: This post was originally published on TechCrunch on February 6, 2016. It’s a new environment for startups in 2016. Financing will get harder. Valuation inflation will dissipate. Profitability will be in vogue again. And old-fashioned business fundamentals will balance out the disruption frenzy of the past five years. Given the new investment climate, what’s an entrepreneur to do? To answer […]
Note: This post was originally published on TechCrunch on July 27, 2015. Enterprise software is about to undergo radical transformation — a substantial change that will make the shift to software as a service (SaaS) look like a simple facelift. This transformation is being powered by machine learning. With machine learning, computers can process and mine data in real time to automatically […]
Today TellApart announced its acquisition by Twitter. We at Bain Capital Ventures couldn’t be more excited for founder and CEO Josh McFarland, his co-founder Mark Ayzenshtat, and the entire team at TellApart. Every startup journey is unique and in each one, the founder puts his own stamp on the company; this is especially true for TellApart. Josh started TellApart to […]
Note: This post was originally published on TechCrunch on April 3, 2015. Marketing is no longer the forgotten stepchild of enterprise software. Traditionally underserved and under-penetrated, marketing is finally receiving its fair share of attention by technologists, founders and investors alike. Gartner famously predicted CMOs would spend more on IT than CIOs by 2017. IDC estimates $32.4 billion in marketing technology […]
Note: This post was originally published on TechCrunch on December 24, 2014. It may surprise many of you to learn that Dell Computer was the highest appreciating tech stock of the 90s. This success was grounded not in marketing or product, but primarily behind the scenes in a revolutionary approach to supply chain. Dell’s success was powered by a “build […]
Ajay Agarwal: Startups, SaaS, and Steelers 