Kevin Zhang
Partner @ Bain Capital Ventures
New York, United States
Kevin Zhang is a seed investor at Bain Capital Ventures in New York focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Kevin focuses on investments in enterprise software, service, and marketplace businesses. Additionally, he contributes to Bain Capital Ventures’ emerging practices in cryptocurrency and gaming.Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Kevin was the first business hire at Fundera, a financial services marketplace for small and medium-sized business. Kevinbuilt the initial content and acquisition marketing efforts, before leading roadmap, user research, and analytics as Head of Product. During Kevin’s tenure, Fundera grew from 5 to 65 employees, raised $20M+ of venture capital, and was ranked #69 fastest growing company on the Inc. 5000 in 2018.Originally from Edison, New Jersey, Kevin earned a BA in economics from Columbia University, where he led the Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs to win the Zvi Galil Award for positive impact on engineering student life. Kevin serves on the young alumni association, the Young Leaders Council, and is an advisor to student groups like Blockchain at Columbia.
- Total investments:
- 15
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 60%
Last updated:
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Industries Kevin Zhang invests in
Stages Kevin Zhang invests in
Countries Kevin Zhang invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (33%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (27%)
- SaaS 3 (20%)
- FinTech 2 (13%)
- Agentic AI 2 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 8 (53%)
- Series A 4 (27%)
- Series B 2 (13%)
Investments
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Hightouch
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Hightouch provides a platform that enables organizations to use their existing data infrastructure to activate and manage customer data for marketing and operational use cases. Its technology connects directly to cloud data warehouses and synchronizes data to various business tools, allowing teams to build audiences, personalize campaigns, andanalyze performance without duplicating data. The platform includes components such as a composable customer data platform, reverse ETL capabilities, and AI-driven decisioning tools that help automate campaign planning, content generation, and customer engagement workflows. Hightouch’s system is designed to operate on top of existing data environments, enabling users to access and utilize all available data while maintaining governance and control within their data warehouse. The company’s tools are used by marketing, data, and operations teams to create targeted customer experiences, manage campaigns across channels, and derive insights from customer behavior and interactions. | $38M / Series B / Jul 19, 2023 | |
Skip
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Skip is a infrastructure to enable blockchains to harness MEV (Miner Extractable Value) to achieve financial sustainability and power better user experiences. | $6.5M / Seed / Sep 22, 2022 | |
Lightning AI
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Grid.ai enables companies of all sizes to train state-of-the-art AI models on hundreds of cloud GPUs and TPUs from their laptops. From the creator of the popular framework PyTorch Lightning, Grid is a platform for training models that enables rapid research iteration. Grid aims to simplify scalable AI research so that when a network becomescomplex, code doesn’t.In October 2020, Grid.ai raised $18.6 million Series A funding led by Index Ventures with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute. | $40M / Series B / Jun 16, 2022 | |
Pallet
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Pallet builds AI agents for logistics teams, automating repetitive back-office workflows like order entry, shipment visibility, document parsing, and quoting. Its agent, CoPallet, uses AI and reasoning to complete tasks end-to-end inside systems like TMS, WMS, and ERP with accuracy and efficiency. CoPallet learns your SOPs, understands tribalknowledge, and makes inferences to handle logistics complexity unique to your workflows. | $3M / Seed / May 26, 2022 | |
Column Tax
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Column Tax is a platform enabling mobile banks and Fintech companies to offer top-tier tax features to their end-users. | $21.7M / Series A / May 17, 2022 | |
Playbook
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Playbook organizes, shares, and collaborates on creative files and projects with clients and teams. In addition to integrating current storage and streamlining file management, the company's software can automatically import, tag, and organize creative files, allowing clients to maintain their blogs and websites without worrying about filemanagement. | $18M / Series A / Apr 19, 2022 | |
Alloy Automation
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Alloy is a no-code tool for creating automated workflows. It is a YC-backed e-commerce automation platform to help in reclaiming time and focus on growth. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $20M / Series A / Feb 22, 2022 | |
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Alloy Automation
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Alloy is a no-code tool for creating automated workflows. It is a YC-backed e-commerce automation platform to help in reclaiming time and focus on growth. It was founded in 2019 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $20M / Series A / Feb 22, 2022 | |
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Column Tax
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Column Tax is a platform enabling mobile banks and Fintech companies to offer top-tier tax features to their end-users. | $5.1M / Seed / Nov 23, 2021 | |
Finley Technologies
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Finley simplifies debt capital raise and management. Finley's software helps growing companies automate due diligence, ensure compliance, and streamline ongoing reporting with their capital providers. Customers like Ramp rely on Finley to manage hundreds of millions in debt capital from capital providers. The Finley team brings experience fromGoldman Sachs, Nova Credit, and Palantir Technologies, and is backed by Y Combinator and Bain Capital Ventures. | $3M / Seed / Jun 14, 2021 | |
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Co-Investors
About Bain Capital Ventures
With over $10B under management, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) offers distinctive access to Bain Capital's broader industry expertise and portfolio of companies. For over 20 years, BCV has invested from seed through IPO and acquisition, backing more than 400 companies including Attentive, Bloomreach, Clari, Docusign, Flywire, LinkedIn,Moveworks, Redis, Rubrik and ShipBob.
Bain Capital Ventures Contacts
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Benjamin Nye
Senior Advisor
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Kevin Zhang
Partner
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Michael Krupka
Partner
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Paul Zurlo
Partner & COO
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Ron Miasnik
Partner
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FAQ
What does Kevin Zhang invest in?
Kevin Zhang invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 15 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 Kevin Zhang last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kevin Zhang closed in Jul 2023. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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