# Adam Bain

> Adam Bain is a Series A investor at 01 Advisors backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 32 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [01 Advisors](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/01-advisors-01)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 32
- Last investment: May 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/adambain
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/adambain

Adam Bain is a Series A investor at 01 Advisors in San Francisco focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Adam Bain - Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ 01 Advisors

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 31% |
| Software | 8 | 25% |
| Financial Services | 7 | 22% |
| FinTech | 5 | 16% |
| SaaS | 4 | 13% |

75 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 9 | 28% |
| Series B | 7 | 22% |
| Series C | 6 | 19% |
| Seed | 2 | 6% |
| Series D | 2 | 6% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 26 | 81% |
| Israel | 1 | 3% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Capchase | Capchase is a fintech company that provides financial solutions to startups by allowing access to funds as they grow. | $26M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 27, 2026 |  |
| micro1 | Micro1 offers a platform that converts human expertise into structured datasets and recruitment processes for companies using AI. It provides a Data Engine that handles the recruitment of experts and manages human-in-the-loop operations to generate data used in post-training of AI models. It also provides Zara, an AI recruiter agent, whichdiscovers, vets, and qualifies talent globally for enterprises and large-volume recruitment firms. The company maintains a Research Lab that publishes studies related to evaluating AI-assisted recruitment, speech-to-text systems, proctoring models, and other aspects of human-data integration into AI systems. It delivers APIs to access its human-data services and recruiter tools. | $35M | Series A | Sep 12, 2025 |  |
| Baseten | Baseten provides a platform for training, deploying, and serving artificial intelligence models in production environments. It supports open-source, fine-tuned, and custom models, converting them into API endpoints with capabilities such as autoscaling, observability, and optimized model serving. The platform manages infrastructure componentsincluding containerization, GPU scheduling across multiple cloud providers, and performance optimizations to support large-scale inference workloads. Baseten also offers preconfigured model APIs and deployment options that can run either on its managed cloud service or within a customer's own environment. Its tools are designed to help developers build, manage, and scale AI applications while maintaining flexibility in how models are hosted and executed. | $75M | Series C | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| BuildOps | BuildOps enables subcontractors to run their entire business on one software solution that manages their invoicing & billing, scheduling, estimates, proposals, payments, workflows, custom forms, financial reporting, and more. Our industry leading cloud-based solution allows you to improve your operations and efficiency, driving profitabilitythrough best-in-class technology. BuildOps has been uniquely designed and built by a team of subcontractors & world-class engineers. www.buildops.com | $50M | Series B | May 18, 2023 |  |
| Bloomreach | Bloomreach is the leader in Commerce Experience™. Our digital experience platform, brX, is the only solution that utilizes the full spectrum of commerce data, from product to customer, alongside content management capabilities, and AI-driven search, merchandising, and personalization in one flexible, API-first platform. We serve over 700 globalbrands including Albertsons, Staples, Bosch, Puma, FC Bayern München, and Marks & Spencer, and power over $250 billion in commerce annually. | $30M | Debt Financing | Oct 04, 2022 |  |
| Pixel Vault | Pixel Vault is a media firm that promotes crypto-native assets through the creation of intellectual property in a range of channels. The company was founded in 2021 and is building at the crossroad of NFTs, Defi, and gaming. | $100M | Series A | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Tipalti | Tipalti streamlines and automates the way companies make payments to their suppliers, partners, publishers, and crowd. Tipalti provides a comprehensive cloud-based solution that addresses all phases of the payables workflow, from self-service supplier onboarding and management to tax compliance, invoice processing, global funds disbursement, earlypayments, and AP reporting and payment reconciliation, while helping to ensure the payer in full tax and regulatory compliance.With Tipalti, companies can eliminate up to 80% of their supplier payment workload, helping them scale their business efficiently with global growth while strengthening financial and compliance controls and while improving the partner payment experience.Tipalti was founded on 2010 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California. | $270M | Series F | Dec 08, 2021 |  |
| Mythical Games | Mythical is a next-generation game technology studio. Mythical Games believes that true ownership of digital assets, verifiable scarcity, and integrated secondary markets will spawn a new generation of games. These new economies, based on digital ownership, will bring players, developers, and content creators closer to the games they love.Mythical Games has a team of veteran game and platform developers with a passion for bringing big innovative concepts to market. Its goal is to create world-class products that drive consumer adoption of distributed ledger technology through games. | $150M | Series C | Nov 04, 2021 |  |
| HiveWatch | HiveWatch offers an AI-powered platform for managing physical security operations across enterprise environments. It unifies systems such as access control, video surveillance, incident management, and guard operations into a single dashboard called the HiveWatch GSOC Operating System. The company’s AI Operator helps reduce false alarms, automateroutine tasks (like reviewing camera footage or verifying alerts), escalate real incidents, and optimize security team workload. HiveWatch also delivers ongoing insights via analytics and device health monitoring to help decision-makers track performance and improve security posture. For organizations lacking fully staffed security operations centers, HiveWatch offers GSOC-as-a-Service, providing 24/7 operational support integrated with its platform. | $20.2M | Series A | Oct 26, 2021 |  |
| Electric | Electric is an information technology company that helps businesses manage their IT security, support, and devices. It provides real-time issue resolution, security at the device, app, and network levels, employee onboarding/offboarding, and IT management. The company was founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, United States. | $90M | Series D | Oct 19, 2021 |  |

10 of 32 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [ServiceNow](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/service-now-com) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Freestyle Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/freestyle-capital) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About 01 Advisors

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

01 Advisors is a venture and advisory firm helping founders go from building a product to building a company. The firm was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

2 contacts available at 01 Advisors.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adam Bain | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-bain |
| Richard Costolo | Managing Partner & Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dick-costolo |

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## FAQ

### What does Adam Bain invest in?

Adam Bain invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 32 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Adam Bain last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adam Bain closed in May 2026. Shizune tracks 32 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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