Bain Capital
Global venture capital firm that backed Fervo Energy.
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“Agarwal is on the other side, perhaps based on his experience backing Kiva Systems — which was acquired by Amazon and became the foundation for its warehouse robotics system. He believes that the winners will be full-stack, due to the need for sector specialization.”
“Bain Capital is exploring an investment in troubled Hong Kong property company New World Development, per Bloomberg.”
“Kioxia (Tokyo: 285A), a Japanese memory storage firm whose backers include Bain Capital, is speaking to bankers about a $10b U.S. float.”
“Its founder is Mark Saadine, who spent the past 14 years at Bain Capital.”
“Etched ($700M at $21B valuation for AI inference chips)”
“Lumilens Raises $900M Series C Round from Meritech Capital Partners, Bain Capital, Atreides Management, Spark Capital at $5.51B Valuation”
“Bain Capital just bought bubble tea giant Gong Cha—becoming the London-based chain's third PE owner—but paid well below what TA Associates was reportedly hoping for.”
Source→“Former U.S. Army General James Rainey, who last served as commanding general of the Army's Futures Command, is said to be joining Bain Capital as a senior advisor.”
“It's a reminder that private equity continues to play a major role in defense-tech, as it has for decades, even if most of the PR heat is at the earlier stages.”
“Travis is totally correct. It's not humanoids, it's specific purpose robotics. I actually think he's correct. I think we'll look back on the humanoids and go, we got way ahead of ourselves.”
Source→“Sixth Street Partners, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and La Caisse are all in talks to bid for a stake in Bridge Data Centers... that could be valued at over $4 billion.”
Source→“Bain Capital agreed to lead a $1.5b investment in Eaton Fiber for Verizon broadband deployment.”
“Bain Capital and The Carlyle Group are currently battling to acquire Wealth Enhancement Group in a deal valued at around $7 billion.”
Source→“Raises $1.7B from Uber, a16z, Fifth Wall, Chemistry, Bain Capital”
Source→“A biometric-based identity verification platform using iris scanning to distinguish humans from AI — raises $52.5M from Pantera, Susquehanna International Group, Bain Capital Crypto”
Source→“Wealth Enhancement, Wealth manager, $160B AUM, Being contested between Bain Capital and Carlyle. PE consolidation of wealth management sector”
“An eight-year-old Los Angeles startup founded and led by Travis Kalanick... Raised a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz.”
Source→“Atoms, an LA-based robotics company led by former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, 'raised a $1.7b round led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Bain Capital, Fifth Wall and Uber.'”
“TerraFirma: Develops remote-controlled construction equipment software to automate infrastructure projects — raised $115M from Kleiner Perkins, Bain Capital”
“Raises $300M Series A Round from Bain Capital, Spark Capital, Lowercarbon Capital, Formation 8, Khosla Ventures, Index Ventures, ARCH Venture Partners, General Catalyst”
Source→“BC Partners, CVC Capital Partners and Bain Capital are among PE firms interested in an acquisition of Italy-based coffee producer Segafredo Zanetti.”
Source→“Raises $126.3M Series A Round from CPP Investments, Bain Capital”
Source→“$64M Series A as the first clear agentic AI security pure-play to receive major institutional backing”
Source→“Oratomic, developer of a fault-tolerant quantum computer, raised $300m in Series A funding led by Arch Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Khosla Ventures”
“Straiker…Raised $64M Series A for enterprise AI agent vulnerability testing... Investors included Citi Ventures, Workday Ventures, Bain, Lightspeed”
Source→“Kakaku (Tokyo: 2371) | Japanese price comparison and job search site | Subject of competing takeover bids from EQT and a Bain Capital/SoftBank affiliate consortium at $3.7B”
“Bain Capital and LY are expected to make a binding offer for price-comparison platform Kakaku.com, which will be higher than EQT's previous 595 billion Japanese yen ($3.7 billion) offer.”
Source→“Bain would later try to repeat the Brandon magic by putting him in charge of Toys 'R Us, but that one didn't work out so well.”
“Poolside — $12B model maker backed by Nvidia, Bain Capital, and DST”
Source→“Bain Capital bought the chain from founder Tom Monaghan in 1998 for around $1 billion, at a time when its pizza crust was regularly compared to cardboard. It installed a new CEO named Dave Brandon, who was credited with everything from international expansion to menu revitalization to a successful marketing campaign starring Brandon himself. Domino's went public in 2004 and today has a $10.6 billion market cap.”
“We're working on how to address some of that cost bar with agents, and that's taking time… We would like to prove out through that work that this is actually a net winner because I think right now it's too early to exit.”
Source→“GPs are taking the opportunity to add AI capabilities to their portfolio companies, which can take time. And time weighs on PE's favorite and most cited metric: net IRR.”
Source→“Adaptive Innovations raised $50 million... AI-native home healthcare operations platform.”
Source→“Fervo had raised over $1.6b from backers like Devon Energy, Capricorn Investment Group, DCVC, B Capital, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.”
“Kailera Therapeutics | Biopharma; obesity drug focus | Bain Capital-backed; raised $625M IPO”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.