Jenny Lee built Hera after watching her family carry the hidden cost of aging care alone. Senior care experts, covered by Medicare, backed by AI. Watch the full Outlier Briefing with Alysaa Co: youtu.be/ES9Lc1C3xVY?...

Some of the most important healthcare companies are built in the wake of major policy shifts. Hera is one of them. Care coordination has always been someone's full-time job. It just never had a funding model behind it. Alysaa Co on why that's changing now. baincapitalventures.com/insight/pinc...

Millions of families figure out senior care on the fly. Jenny Lee watched hers do it, then built Hera to change that. Real experts, backed by AI, handling the work that falls on families with no training and no time. $27M Series A today and we’re thrilled to lead.

Tomo is not another self-improvement app. It’s a number you text that gets more useful with every conversation. We’re proud to lead their $5M Seed and even more proud Tomo users are going to accomplish. Read more: baincapitalventures.com/insight/tomo...

Marty Kausas spent the early days of Pylon sleeping in the office. No customers. No funding. Just conviction. 1,500 customers and 300 legacy migrations later, he was right all along. Full Outlier Briefing: youtu.be/VBKSeA0EbWM?...

At CommerceNext, nine retail tech startups pitch live and the audience picks the winner. BCV's Scott Friend is judging alongside a sharp group of investors and retail operators. Catch it live | Ecommerce Tech Innovations session, 2:30–3:20 PM ET. growthshow.commercenext.com/agenda/

Camp BCV, redwoods edition. A few days off-grid with our Labs Summer Fellows: researchers and operators interning at top AI companies spending a weekend in Northern California trading ideas, river time, campfires, and conversations about hard problems. Grateful for everyone involved!

Business Insider named Ajay Agarwal one of 22 investors shaping the robotics and physical AI boom. VC investment in the category has grown from $4B in 2019 to $26B in 2025. Ajay has been at it since 2004. Congrats, Ajay. www.businessinsider.com/investors-to...

Vineet Edupuganti spent years at one of enterprise security's fastest-growing companies, going from ML engineer to product leader. That trajectory gave him a view most founders never get. Cogent is what came out of it. Full Outlier Briefing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXhD...

AI is rewriting how your company's story gets told, and most leaders haven't caught up yet. BCV’s Allison Braley joined Sean Garrett (Affirm) and Terra Carmichael (Lyft) at #MediaSummitSF2026 to unpack what that means for brand perception when the narrator is an LLM.

BCV Converge takeaways: enterprises want productivity over cost cuts. Junior talent accelerating, not replaced. Consumption pricing is harder than founders expect. The gap between AI hype and reality is still narrowing.

That’s a wrap on BCV Converge! This Tuesday, we hosted leaders from Fortune 500 companies across major industries to tackle one question: How are enterprises turning experimentation into real operating impact? Their answers are coming next week. Stay tuned.

4 in 10 home health patients turned away. Not a clinician problem. A paperwork problem. Adaptive Innovations rebuilt that. 100k+ visits, 500+ referring orgs, a patient mix nobody else will touch. $50M Series A. This category is about to get very interesting. baincapitalventures.com/insight/curi...

89% of Cognition's code is written by Devin. The other 11% is the humans who built it. Two years ago they launched the first AI software engineer. Now they're announcing a $1B Series D at a $26B valuation. Aaref has believed in this team from the start. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This startup wants dogs to live longer. If that's not enough to get you to watch, we're not sure what will. Celine Halioua built Loyal after years of being laughed at & now is developing the first FDA-approved drug to extend a dog’s lifespan. Watch now with Kevin Zhang: youtu.be/LXqF5tohXt8?...

"Fake it till you make it hasn't really worked for me." Kevin Zhang joined Luba Yudasina for an honest hour on building confidence slowly, what early irrational belief in a founder actually looks like, and why the SaaS metrics playbook has run its course. New episode: tinyurl.com/r3b4sr83

Opening this app was worth it today. Celine Halioua is building Loyal to give dogs healthier years with the people who love them. 30 seconds of very good boys and girls below. Full interview with Kevin Zhang drops next week.

The 2026 CNBC Disruptor 50 is out. 3 BCV-backed companies made it: Decagon, Legora and Socure. 13 years in and this list keeps getting harder to crack. Congrats to all the teams. www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/2...

BCV Partner Ajay is on the latest episode of The Robot Report podcast and it’s packed with years of hard-won takes on founders, systems thinking, and why the robot is never really the product. www.therobotreport.com/why-the-worl...

Business Insider just dropped their 2026 Seed 100, a ranking of the top early-stage investors in the US built from analyzing nearly 2,000 investors across 25 performance metrics, and our partner Matt Harris is on it. Congrats on the well deserved recognition 🌱 www.businessinsider.com/seed-100-bes...

Most investors talk about founder empathy. Enrique Sale actually has it. His take on scaling: if people show up because it's a job, you've already lost. Mission first, always. New episode of Technoventure with Peter High: www.metisstrategy.com/interview/en...

Talent is the clearest differentiator between the best and the rest. The companies pulling away have founders who never stopped recruiting. Thank you to everyone who joined us at the BCV People Leader Summit in SF last week.

We backed Mind Robotics early. We're back again today. $400M new round, bringing total raised to over $1B. RJ Scaringe and his team are deploying AI into a live manufacturing environment with Rivian, where conditions are dynamic and the cost of failure is real. Read more www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Most drugs that make it through FDA approval still never reach the patients who need them. Forus is fixing that by automating every step between a clinical decision and a patient starting treatment. Proud to back Sahir J and the team as they raise $160M. www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

The CB Insights AI 100 is out. We count five BCV portfolio companies spanning sales, infrastructure, cybersecurity, healthcare, and dev tools. Honored to work alongside these teams as AI continues to change more industries. That’s always been our bet. Full list: www.cbinsights.com/research/rep...

For decades, the answer to a sales capacity problem was just… hire more salespeople. Actively was built knowing there had to be a better way. The best salespeople are still constrained by time and the number of accounts they can hold. Co-founder Mihir and BCV partner, Ajay break it down.

Don’t hire the AE (respectfully). BCV’s Joe Dimento asked 4 founders how they knew when it was time. Every single one of them waited until they could explain exactly why deals were closing and prove they could replicate it. Full story in the link below. baincapitalventures.com/insight/foun...

Insurance claims are still manual and expensive. Reserv is rebuilding the system as an AI-native TPA, improving speed and outcomes. We’ve been involved since day 0. Today: $125M Series C, 500K claims/year, path to 30M. Congrats to the team. www.theinsurer.com/ti/interview...

“You can’t fix a human capacity problem with tools that weigh on humans.” Actively was one of the first to take that problem seriously. When two dozen AEs showed up just to say thanks, co-founder & CEO, Mihir Garimella, knew they were onto something. He joins Ajay Agarwal to tell the story.

The chaos around AI and marketing is real, but Hightouch saw through it early. They understood something simple: AI only works in marketing when it runs on your actual data. They just announced a $150M Series D at a $2.75B valuation to keep growing. Full story here: www.wsj.com/cmo-today/go...

Sales eats 30–40% of every revenue dollar, yet teams are still chasing context across 15 tools. Founders Mihir Garimella and Anshul Gupta built Actively around a different idea. One persistent AI agent per account. Working your whole TAM 24/7. Today, they announced their $45M Series B.

Most people think AI is coming for someone else's job. That assumption is the trap. BCV partner Aaref Hilaly doesn't buy that, and neither do we. The rules of venture are shifting. Companies scale faster and AI is shaping investment decisions. We're experimenting at every stage to stay ahead.

After 7 failed ideas, Han hit “pivot hell”—a week of no sleep, staring at the ceiling, trying to make something work. Then Mintlify clicked. Today it powers docs for 20K+ companies, reaching 150M+ people—and increasingly, AI agents. Watch the full story ↓ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqyg...

Documentation is becoming the interface layer for AI. As agents become primary builders, they don’t browse, they parse. If docs aren’t structured & accurate, agents fail to implement your product & you lose usage. Mintlify saw this early, and they’re building the knowledge layer for AI.

The Enterprise Tech 30 list is out for 2026, and we’re proud to see four BCV portfolio companies recognized. From AI models to vertical SaaS, this year’s list spans the full enterprise stack. Congrats to Crosby, Decagon, Legora, and Mintlify, who are pushing the boundaries of enterprise software.

AI that actually thinks like you > AI that just responds to you In our latest Outlier Briefings, The Sentience Company is building models that remember your context, capture how you think and act on your behalf. We’re backing Sam Kececi and team: youtu.be/x1jtoIqrLPs

Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list is out for 2026 — great to see BCV portfolio companies recognized. Congrats to Crusoe, Docusign, Gather AI, MagicSchool, Redis, ShopMy and Unstructured for pushing their categories forward. Well-deserved for teams building and shipping at a high level.

Swish is building food delivery as a system — with kitchens, recipes, automation, and logistics designed together. We are proud to have co-led their $38M Series B. More: baincapitalventures.com/insight/swis...

Memo is a robot that uses AI to perform household tasks effectively. Today Sunday Robotics announced its Series B, and we’re proud to be investors. Training robots for the home is hard so Sunday is training robots directly on real households. More here: baincapitalventures.com/insight/robo...

RJ Scaringe built Rivian from scratch. Today we’re proud to back his next company, Mind Robotics. Mind is building the world’s leading industrial robotics platform based on a real industrial environment where systems can train, improve, & compound. Proud to partner. techcrunch.com/2026/03/11/r...

In a still-early legal AI market, practitioners told us the same thing about Legora: more production-ready outputs, stronger workflows, real product velocity. Congrats to the team on the $550M Series D. baincapitalventures.com/insight/inve...

In 2017 we invested in Passport. Now, Arrive has signed an agreement to acquire Passport, a leader in parking compliance and curbside payments. Excited for what’s next for cities and the future of mobility. www.passportinc.com/blog/arrive-...

B2B support isn’t ticketing — it’s sales, success, and finance working in the same thread. Legacy tools weren’t built for that. Today Pylon has: 1,500+ customers, 300 migrations off legacy tools, $51M raised. Watch their story: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBKS...

FluxAI is helping ensure that building in hardware feels a lot more like building in code. Today, the AI-powered platform for hardware engineering announced $37M in funding, including a $27M Series B and a previously unannounced $10M Series A co-led by BCV. Proud to be in their corner.

An announcement isn’t a document: it’s a clear message & a distribution system. Most founders write something & ship it. Winners engineer a moment: one audience, one message, one action, coordinated & intentional. Read about the anatomy of an announcement: baincapitalventures.com/insight/anat...

Internships shape how you see the world and the network you’ll lean on for years to come. Write your early career story with the BCV Labs Summer Fellowship. Apply by Feb 28: baincapitalventures.com/insight/appl...

“Being naïve and thinking from first principles can actually be a superpower.” That mindset shaped how CEO and founder Celine Halioua built Loyal. Loyal is running one of the largest clinical trials ever for dogs to help extend their life longevity. More on Upstarts Media youtu.be/nU9vdakV9QY?...

We’re proud to see these BCV-backed companies on the Forbes Fintech 50 list 🏆 All are driving change in the finance industry through technology. Congrats to Relay, Reserv and Socure!

Cogent Security is building autonomous AI agents to replace broken vulnerability management with machine-speed defense. We’re proud to lead their $42M Series A. Watch CEO Vineet Edupuganti & Rak Garg breakdown what has changed in security & how Cogent is helping: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXhD...

Enterprise AI is exposing how companies operate. Pilots stall because ownership is fuzzy and data foundations crack under pressure. The teams seeing returns are anchoring use cases to real business outcomes & strengthening the infrastructure around them. baincapitalventures.com/insight/the-...