About Bain Capital
We are one of the world’s leading private multi-asset alternative investment firms with approximately $75 billion in assets under management that creates lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses and the communities in which we live. Founded in 1984, we pioneered a consulting-based approach to private equity investing, partnering closely with management teams to offer the insights that challenge conventional thinking, build great businesses and improve operations. Over time, we have organically expanded this approach across asset classes to build one of the strongest alternative asset platforms in the world.
Today, our teams strive to create value through private equity, public equity, fixed income and credit and venture capital investments across multiple sectors, industries, and geographies. We believe that our people and the shared values we’ve espoused since our founding remain the core of our competitive advantage. This has empowered us to deliver an enduring impact to a diverse group of investors including pensions, endowments, foundations and individuals.
Our Values
From our founding, we have held to the conviction that there is a different way for an investment firm to create value. Our commitment to create lasting impact means that we work differently, tenacious in our desire to unearth the fundamentals that drive businesses and markets over the long-term. And it means that we partner differently, aligning our interests with those of our investors for lasting impact.
Living our values, we create lasting impact for our investors, teams, businesses and the communities in which we live.
We develop exceptional partnerships
We know that great outcomes come from great teams. We are personally invested in each other’s success.
We challenge conventional thinking
We think differently. We nurture a culture of deeply objective inquiry and seek the full potential in every opportunity. We respect the power of facts.
We work with tenacity
We roll up our sleeves, dig in, and come to work every day searching for better outcomes. We relentlessly tackle tough problems. We see things through.
We believe character matters
We prize personal integrity and humility. We believe in acting with both empathy and conviction. We believe in doing the right thing.
Our History
Founded in 1984, Bain Capital has become one of the world’s leading private multi-asset alternative investment firms by constantly looking for new and different ways to create value.
1984
Bain Capital founded as a private equity firm in Boston
1987
- Private Equity: Fund II raised $106 million
1989
- Private Equity: Fund III raised $60 million
1993
- Private Equity: Fund IV raised $300 million
1995
- Private Equity: Fund V raised $500 million
1996
1998
Bain Capital Credit founded by Bain Capital as Sankaty Advisors
2000
London and New York offices open
2002
- Credit: Credit Opportunities Program I (COPs) raised $500 million
Munich office opens
2004
- Private Equity: Fund VIII raised $4.1 billion
- Private Equity: Second Europe Fund (VIII-E) raised €1 billion
2005
- Credit: Credit Opportunities Program II (COPs) raised $1.35 billion
- Ventures: Fund 2005 raised $258 million
Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Chicago offices open
2006
- Private Equity: Fund IX raised $10 billion
2007
- Private Equity: First Asia Fund raised $1 billion
- Private Equity: Fund X raised $11.0 billion
- Credit: Credit Opportunities Program III (COPs) raised $2.2 billion
- Ventures: Fund 2007 raised $500 million
2008
Mumbai office opens
2009
- Ventures: Fund 2009 raised $467 million
2010
- Credit: Middle Market Opportunities Fund I (MMOPs) raised $900 million
2011
Palo Alto office opens
2013
Melbourne office opens
2014
Dublin office opens
- Private Equity: Fund XI raised $6.5 billion
- Private Equity: Fourth Europe Fund (E-IV) raised €3.5 billion
- Ventures: Fund 2014 raised $650 million
- Ventures: Coinvestment Fund raised $200 million
2015
San Francisco and Sydney offices open
Bain Capital By the Numbers
BAIN CAPITAL FOUNDED
From our founding as a private equity firm, we’ve extended our approach across asset classes to include public equity, credit and venture capital. And, we leverage our shared platform to capture cross-asset class opportunities in strategic areas of focus.
OFFICES WORLDWIDE
Our offices span four continents with locations in Boston, Chicago, Dublin, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, Mumbai, Munich, New York, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai, Sydney and Tokyo.
TEAM MEMBERS
Our people are the core of our competitive advantage—the greatest outcomes come from great teams.