Investor Type | Firm |
Industries | FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) |
Stages | Seed, Series A, Series B, Pre-seed |
Investing | United States |
Investment Range | $100,000 - $5,000,000 |
Investment Sweet Spot | $1,500,000 |
Assets Under Management | $530,000,000 |
Bain Capital Crypto is an investment fund specializing in the FinTech and Blockchain sectors, including financial services and cryptocurrencies. With an emphasis on backing renegades and pioneers, the firm engages in building the foundation for the next generation of open internet infrastructure. Bain Capital Crypto provides concentrated investments and offers support to teams from the idea stage to scaling their projects. The fund particularly targets investment opportunities in Seed, Series A, and Series B stages, as well as Pre-seed initiatives. They have a defined investment range, with a minimum investment threshold of $100,000, a maximum of $5,000,000, and a sweet spot of $1,500,000 for their investments. Bain Capital Crypto manages assets under management (AUM) totaling $530,000,000. In their portfolio, they feature innovative companies like M0, which is decentralized money middleware that enables institutions to issue cryptodollars; World, which is developing a large, distributed privacy-preserving identity protocol; and Aera, a protocol that facilitates risk-aware, autonomous treasury management for DAOs and other on-chain organizations. In addition to their investment activities, the firm is also involved in publishing insights and research on topics like data availability schemes, blockchain transaction sequences, and optimizing WebAssembly for blockchain applications which showcase their engagement with the technical underpinnings of blockchain technology and its use cases.