Kevin Zhang

Partner

2020

Bain Capital Ventures partners with founders to accelerate their development and impact. We invest from seed to growth in software, infrastructure, financial services and healthcare. Non-Board Investments // BCV Lead: Finley (Seed), Aqueduct (Seed, acq. by Stripe), Command E (Seed, acq. by Dropbox) BCV Coinvest: Tandem Health (Seed), Lithos Carbon (Seed), Feathery (Seed), Vesta (Seed), Shelf Engine (Seed) BC Crypto: Sense Finance (Seed), Variational Research (Seed), Lumina (Seed, acq. by BitGo)

Principal

2018 - 2020

Investor

2016 - 2018

Lead Seed Investor & Board Observer

2021

Mintlify is the modern standard for public-facing technical documentation. Beautiful out of the box, easy to maintain, and optimized for user engagement. Mintlify was founded by Han Wang and Hahnbee Lee. We met Han when he was still at Cornell, and had already built two startups: one acquired, the other about cows (ask him about it). Our greatest contribution to Mintlify might've been hiring Han, which immediately convinced him that he didn't want to be a VC.

Series B Investor & Board Member

2024

Loyal is developing the first-ever drugs intended to extend the healthspan and lifespan of dogs. Cellular Longevity was founded by Celine Halioua. We met Celine thanks to her former chief of staff, who is a member of our community of rising stars in Silicon Valley. At our events, people wouldn't stop asking him about when their dog could live forever.

Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member

2022

Pallet is a company dedicated to disrupting the logistics industry, providing end-to-end logistics visibility, control, and optimization. Pallet was founded by Sushanth Raman and Andrew Spencer. Rak Garg and I have each gotten to know Sushanth over half a decade or more before he started Pallet, in my case through our work supporting technology and entrepreneurship in the Columbia community.

Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member

2021

Relay is banking designed for growing businesses. Easily collaborate with your team, manage payments and issue corporate cards, all from your bank. Relay was founded by Yoseph West and Paul Klicnik. When she was President of Xero, our partner Keri Gohman had acquired Hubdoc, where Yoseph was a crucial early team member.

Series A/B Investor & Board Observer

2020

Hightouch is the leading Composable CDP that empowers companies to activate their data warehouse to power personalized marketing and business operations. Hightouch was founded by Kashish Gupta, Tejas Manohar, and Josh Curl. We met them shortly after they pivoted from being a travel agency. For diligence, we simultaneously introduced them and two competitors to several potential customers; Hightouch closed those accounts before their competition even responded to our email.

Founding Investor & Board Observer

2022

Skip helps sovereign blockchain protocols supercharge their user experience, interoperability, and value capture with its vertically integrated product suite. Skip was founded by Barry Plunkett and Maghnus Mareneck. We originally met Barry because he was helping spin out a company from D.E. Shaw; I was hoping we could hire him to run incubations at BCV, but he and Mag found an exciting opportunity in blockchain infrastructure instead.

Series A Investor & Board Member

2021

Organize, share, and collaborate on creative files and projects with your team. Playbook was founded by Jessica Ko and Alex Zirbel. We'd heard great things about them from friends at Opendoor over the years, and while I didn't see what they saw at seed, we thankfully came around to the opportunity at the Series A.

Seed/Series A Investor & Board Member

2021

APIs to easily give your users personalized, secure & powerful income tax product experiences. Column Tax was founded by Gavin Nachbar and Michael Bock. My partner Leslie Crowe had run a program for rising stars at Dropbox, of which Gavin was an inaugural member; we reconnected when Gavin and Michael graduated from the first class of South Park Commons fellows.

Lead Seed Investor & Board Observer

2020

Alloy Automation is a SaaS integration development platform. Alloy was founded by Sara Du and Gregg Mojica. We met Sara when she launched a prototype data integration tool on Product Hunt in 2019, kept in touch as they iterated through YC, before leading their seed financing the following year.