Bain Capital Credit
VC Fund
Boston, United States
Bain Capital Credit is a VC fund in Boston focused on Financial Services and Information Technology. Bain Capital Credit, formerly known as Sankaty Advisors the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, LLC. Bain Capital Credit is one of the nation's leading private managers of fixed income and credit instruments. With $29.4 billion in committed assets under management as of 4/7/16, Bain Capital Credit invests in a wide variety ofsecurities and investments, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed/stressed debt, mezzanine debt, structured products and equities.Bain Capital Credit has a team of approximately 88 investment professionals in Boston, Chicago, New York, and London with extensive experience analyzing and managing debt investments across a variety of sectors and industries. These investment professionals are supported by over 45 finance, operations and legal & compliance professionals.Additionally, Bain Capital Credit's Middle Market Group manages nearly $4.5 billion of funded assets.
- Total investments:
- 28
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 68%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Bain Capital Credit invests in
Stages Bain Capital Credit invests in
Countries Bain Capital Credit invests in
Contacts
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Barnaby Lyons
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James S. Athanasoulas
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Andrea Lucido
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Brian Hirschfeld
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Daniel Shugrue
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Financial Services 4 (14%)
- Information Technology 4 (14%)
- Restaurants 3 (11%)
- Banking 2 (7%)
- Finance 2 (7%)
Stage
- Debt Financing 11 (39%)
- Private Equity 8 (29%)
- Series C 2 (7%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Funding Round 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 13 (46%)
- Spain 2 (7%)
- Australia 2 (7%)
- United Kingdom 2 (7%)
- China 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Barnaby Lyons
Partner and Global Head of Special Situations
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Partner and Global Head of Special Situations | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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James S. Athanasoulas
Managing Director,
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Managing Director, | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Andrea Lucido
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Brian Hirschfeld
Managing Director
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Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
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Daniel Shugrue
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 14 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Kids2
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Kids2 is a global consumer goods company that designs products and holistic solutions to help early-stage parents and families. Its brand portfolio includes the leading infant, baby, and toddler brands Baby Einstein™, Bright Starts™, and Ingenuity™. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. | $225M / Debt Financing / May 07, 2026 | |
Aidacare
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Aidacare offers products such as cushions, hospital equipment, daily living aids, medical carts, mobility scooters, wheelchairs, and chairs. | $381.6M / Debt Financing / Feb 18, 2026 | |
Bridger Aerospace
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Bridger Aerospace is an industry leader in aerial wildfire management, relief and suppression, delivering powerful firefighting services | $331.5M / Post-IPO Debt / Oct 29, 2025 | |
DTiQ
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DTiQ combines surveillance equipment with cloud-based analytics and managed services. DTiQ improves how restaurants and retail locations are managed. They offer various products including occupancy tracking, intelligent video, analytics, custom solutions, and more. Their solutions are preventive safety, employee engagement, and customer experience. | $145M / Debt Financing / Oct 15, 2024 | |
DC BLOX
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We build and operate edge connected data centers enabled with speed of light business continuity. DC BLOX delivers guaranteed business continuity to organizations by empowering them with enterprise-level computing power connected through a high performance optical matrix with synchronous data replication. With locations in Atlanta, GA andChattanooga, TN, we are designing, building and will operate a network of innovative data centers to bring best-in-class cloud computing to the Southeastern United States. | Private Equity / Oct 08, 2024 | |
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DC BLOX
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We build and operate edge connected data centers enabled with speed of light business continuity. DC BLOX delivers guaranteed business continuity to organizations by empowering them with enterprise-level computing power connected through a high performance optical matrix with synchronous data replication. With locations in Atlanta, GA andChattanooga, TN, we are designing, building and will operate a network of innovative data centers to bring best-in-class cloud computing to the Southeastern United States. | Private Equity / Oct 08, 2024 | |
Chartbeat
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Chartbeat is a content intelligence platform for publishers that empowers companies to build loyal audiences with real-time and historical editorial analytics across desktop, social, and mobile platforms. The company helps digital publishing organizations understand what, within their content, is keeping people engaged. It shows visitors, loadtimes, and referring sites on a minute-by-minute basis. The service also provides alerts the second your Website crashes or slows to a crawl.The company was founded in 2009 and is based in New York. | Private Equity / Oct 07, 2024 | |
CW Advisors
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CW Advisors is an investment firm that develops innovative wealth solutions for high-net-worth individuals and families. | Secondary Market / Apr 27, 2023 | |
vLex
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VLex offers a legal intelligence platform that provides governmental and academic markets with legal content and solutions. The company combines an extensive database of statutes, case law, secondary sources, and smart-contract analytics and also includes AI-enhanced workflows—under the Vincent AI suite—for document summarization, contractanalysis, timeline construction, litigation support, and cross-jurisdictional legal comparison. The platform integrates features like precedent maps, key-passage highlighting, and citator tools to understand case validity and legal authority strength. It offers browser extensions and integrations with platforms like Word, Outlook, iManage, and Docket Alarm API to embed legal research within existing workflows. | Debt Financing / Apr 03, 2023 | |
Pyramid Global Hospitality
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Pyramid has extensive experience in providing core operational infrastructure and strategies for a wide range of full-service properties. From the Cayman Islands to Hawaii know what it takes to manage full-service hotels successfully, and apply our years of experience and industry-leading data analytics to branded hotels around the world. | Debt Financing / Feb 28, 2023 | |
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Co-Investors
Post Road Group
3 deals together
Abu Dhabi Capital Group
2 deals together
Audax Private Equity
2 deals together
MCG Capital
2 deals together
Oaktree Capital Management
2 deals together
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What does Bain Capital Credit invest in?
Bain Capital Credit invests primarily in Financial Services, Information Technology and Restaurants startups, most often at Debt Financing and Private Equity stage. Most of the 28 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The team at Bain Capital Credit includes Barnaby Lyons (Partner and Global Head of Special Situations), James S. Athanasoulas (Managing Director,) and Andrea Lucido (Vice President), among 14 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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