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As AI agents join the ranks of both offense & defense in cybersecurity, it’s worth asking:

Can we build better software + infrastructure to brace for the generative AI era?

BCV's Enrique Salem draws experience to offer a framework as we head into RSA week

baincapitalventures.com/insight/ai-a...
AI Agents are Armed for Battle – Cybersecurity's 3Is
Lessons from the past won’t fully prepare CISOs for a future where AI agents are on both sides.
baincapitalventures.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Check out Good Morning America's Chief Meteorologist @gingerzee.bsky.social reporting on BCV portfolio company Lithos Carbon (from today's show)

www.goodmorningamerica.com/food/video/r...
How rock dust is used to fertilize farms, clean the air
ABC News’ Ginger Zee reports from North Carolina on how farmers are using rock dust to enrich soil and help remove carbon from the atmosphere.
www.goodmorningamerica.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Actively AI Co-Founders Anshul Gupta & Mihir Garimella have the DNA (Stanford-trained AI researchers) to automate sales pipelines.

BCV's Ajay Agarwal & Aaref Hilary unpack their journey to launching Actively AI and securing a Series A led by BCV here:

baincapitalventures.com/insight/acti...
April 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Co-founders Spencer Penn & Idan Mintz are building something enduring with LightSource.

More on the founders and LightSource's trajectory to become the OS for vetted procurement and supply chain operations from BCV's Ajay Agarwal:

baincapitalventures.com/insight/ligh...
LightSource Emerges from Stealth as the OS for Procurement
Co-founders Spencer Penn and Idan Mintz use AI to remove inefficiencies in legacy sourcing, procurement and supply chain operations.
baincapitalventures.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies 2025 list is out

Congrats to BCV portfolio companies unstructured.io, Wonder, Moveworks & Contextual AI

Keep building!
March 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Recruiting tech talent is complex.

Matt Stephenson (former Google, Plaid, Human Capital) excels at it.

BCV's Leslie Crowe welcomes Matt to our Platform team as Head of Tech Talent

baincapitalventures.com/insight/welc...
March 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Healthcare requires trust.

“If [we can] create a platform that becomes a healthcare CFO’s most useful, trusted solution – starting w/ RCM – we’ll be on our way to building trust needed to tackle macro problems [in healthcare]” – Silna Health's Jeff Morelli

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Silna Health's Solution Aligns Patients, Doctors & Insurance
Co-founders Jeffrey Morelli, Pavel Asparouhov and Sagar Jajoo are on a mission to ensure that no patient is denied the care they need.
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March 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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More on why Charta Health has the DNA to transform healthcare from BCV's Aaref Hilaly & Alysaa Co here: baincapitalventures.com/insight/char...
February 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Congrats to BCV-backed Charta Health!

AI will shape the future of healthcare. Audit and compliance is just the tip of the iceberg; Charta will become a trust layer between healthcare counterparties.

We’re thrilled to partner with Charta who will lead the change. More from @businessinsider.com👇
February 26, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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When BCV led Moveworks' Series A in 2019, it was clear Bhavin Shah & co-founders had a category-defining company.

Enrique Salem & Saanya Ojha on how Moveworks stands apart as a proactive teammate for every employee, rather than just a smarter search engine.

baincapitalventures.com/insight/move...
February 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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AI x the CFO: 2025 will be the year of real adoption.

According to a BCV CFO Advisory Council survey:

💰 79% plan to increase AI budgets in 2025
📈 94% see strong AI impact on finance (FP&A, forecasting, automation)
⏸️ But 71% haven’t adopted AI yet

More: baincapitalventures.com/insight/ai-a...
AI and the Office of the CFO in 2025
In 2024, CFOs experimented with generative AI tools. BCV’s CFO Advisory Council weighs in on where AI will deliver the most value in 2025.
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February 18, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Built to secure the world's networks & nations.

Shalev Hulio, Sebastian Kurz & Gil Dolev are well-suited to lead Dream, draw on government and business experience & solve problems of incomplete visibility and too many alerts.

More on why we believe in Dream: baincapitalventures.com/insight/from...
How Shalev Hulio and Sebastian Kurz Are Keeping Nations and Networks Safe with Dream
Co-founders combine cybersecurity and government expertise to solve the fundamental problems of incomplete visibility and too many alerts.
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February 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Index co-founders Simon & Christian both exude intensity and design sense.

Since launching their product planning tool Index is quickly building an impressive global customer list with logos including unicorns and enterprises.

Context from BCV's Rak Garg: baincapitalventures.com/insight/inde...
Index Brings Product Planning into the AI Age
Index helps AI-native product teams ship better products faster by unifying customer feedback, engineering execution, and design mocks.
baincapitalventures.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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BCV's Scott Friend sees @openaidevs.bsky.social launching its Operator #AIAgent as an acceleration in what will ultimately be viewed as the third wave of major digital commerce innovation (following #ecommerce & mobile)

Scott's full POV in today's Crunchbase News news.crunchbase.com/ai/openai-op...
OpenAI’s Operator Signals The Agentic Era Of Commerce Is Here
With OpenAI’s release of Operator, Scott Friend, an investor at Bain Capital Ventures, believes we’ll now see an acceleration in what will ultimately be viewed as the third wave of major digital comme...
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February 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Today's #AI Apps explosion mirrors innovation waves of years past.

@ajayagarwal.bsky.social thinks it's most akin to the golden age of SaaS (1994-2000).

The secret sauce then & now: Top-selling executed by armies of sales people & front-end engineers.

baincapitalventures.com/insight/what...
January 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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As the #creatoreconomy explodes & Gen Z thirst for authenticity converts to ROI, ShopMy is breaking new ground by creating huge value on both sides of this massive marketplace

BCV POV: baincapitalventures.com/insight/the-...

@wsj.com story on co-leading their Series B: www.wsj.com/articles/inf...
January 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📈Moving from founder-led to AE-led #sales requires building a comprehensive GTM machine.

💡BCV's @ajayagarwal.bsky.social & Joe DiMento draw on operator experiences (as head of GTM & sales, respectively) to offer advice on moving from $1M to $25M in ARR.

📔: baincapitalventures.com/insight/how-...
How to Scale Your Early GTM from a Few AEs to a Repeatable Machine
Bain Capital Ventures helps founders build iconic businesses that transform the way we live and work.
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January 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Welcome Mark Fiorentino to BCV!

As Matt Harris writes, Mark is constantly learning w/ a career+life trajectory powered by changes, pivots & the quest for new experiences (ask him about being a Sommelier or upcoming CrossFit competitions).

baincapitalventures.com/insight/mark... #fintech #SaaS #AI
January 16, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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#AIAgents are actively joining battle ranks.

It’s crucial for #cybersecurity solutions to balance security efficacy with operational efficiency.

BCV's Enrique Salem digs into the defense-side innovation behind the ominous reality for @marketwatch.com:

www.marketwatch.com/story/ai-put...
AI puts companies in danger of even worse cyberattacks. Here’s the best defense.
Cybersecurity threats are no longer occasional, isolated incidents but a relentless, daily battle.
www.marketwatch.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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BCV's Rak Garg & William Eleazer reflect on one year of #BCVLabs.

The tl;dr: BCV Labs grew from an idea to a community of world-class researchers, engineers and builders tackling interesting problems.

baincapitalventures.com/insight/our-... #earlystage #incubator #startups
December 23, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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📣 Announcing @baincapvc.bsky.social's CTO Advisory Board!

🤖💼 40+ CTOs representing $860B in market cap and several industries will convene throughout 2025 amid the rise of #AIagents, explosion of #opensource and swift evolution of tech stacks.

List & info: baincapitalventures.com/insight/bain...
December 4, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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@poolsideai.bsky.social's CEO
@jcw.bsky.social & CTO Eiso Kant are scaling a world-class research team to achieve #AGI + help billions code.

Interested in learning more from Jason x Eiso directly? They'll be @ #AWSreInvent (booth 708): poolside.ai/reinvent.

baincapitalventures.com/insight/pool...
November 21, 2024 at 3:41 PM
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#Commerce x #AIAgents = the ‘Agentic Commerce Era’

BCV's Scott Friend coins the phrase to signal we’re at the beginning of a significant wave of #innovation.

Full POV: baincapitalventures.com/insight/the-...
November 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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🔒Cybersecurity x #AI 🤖

Validated by convos w/ #CISOs & founders, BCV's domain experts Enrique Salem, Saanya Ojha & Rak Garg agree:

#Cybersecurity in 2025 = simplification, consolidation & automation.

Their full glimpse at what's to come in the new year: baincapitalventures.com/insight/cybe...
November 19, 2024 at 7:25 PM