Stefan Cohen
Managing Director and Member of Crypto Team @ Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Stefan Cohen is a Series A investor at Bain Capital Ventures in San Francisco focused on Software and Information Technology. Stefan Cohen is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Managing Director and Member of Crypto Team of Bain Capital Ventures. Stefan previously worked at Turbonomic. Stefan Cohen attended the Clark University.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 64%
Last updated:
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Industries Stefan Cohen invests in
Stages Stefan Cohen invests in
Countries Stefan Cohen invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $2.9M–$6.2M
- Series A
- $8M–$88M
- Series B
- $25M–$128M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (28%)
- Information Technology 4 (16%)
- Blockchain 3 (12%)
- Cryptocurrency 3 (12%)
- Computer 2 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (24%)
- Series B 6 (24%)
- Seed 5 (20%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (12%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 9 (36%)
- France 1 (4%)
- Armenia 1 (4%)
- Germany 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $37.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys. | $12.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / May 14, 2026 | ||
| Meanwhile is a licensed and regulated life insurance business. | $82M / Series B / Oct 07, 2025 | ||
| M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age. | $40M / Series B / Aug 28, 2025 | ||
| Turnkey is an encryption service provider that offers secure APIs to manage private keys. | $30M / Series B / Jun 09, 2025 | ||
| Curio Research is focusing on building games that create rich and expansive social interactions through the composability of crypto and the power of smart contracts. | $5.7M / Seed / Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Cube Dev is a computer software company that specializes in the fields of open source, analytics, databases, and developer tools. It provides a complete backend API platform over the raw data while giving the full customization and flexibility on the frontend. | $25M / Series B / Jun 06, 2024 | ||
| M^0 is money middleware for the digital age. It is a decentralized, on-chain protocol, as well as a corresponding set of off-chain standards and APIs, that allows holders of high-quality eligible collateral to participate in the issuance of a fungible cryptodollar. With M^0, any number of institutions around the world can tap on turnkey middlewareto become their own cryptodollar issuer, upgrading their money tech stack to the digital age. | $35M / Series A / Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| Curio Research is focusing on building games that create rich and expansive social interactions through the composability of crypto and the power of smart contracts. | $2.9M / Seed / Feb 21, 2023 | ||
| Nucleo will promote the adoption of blockchain technologies that protect user privacy with its non-custodial, programmable, and auditability solutions. It uses powerful multi-signature and zero-knowledge cryptography to give any organisation with the privacy infrastructure necessary to benefit from better capital formation, allocation, anddistributed ownership. | $4M / Seed / Nov 22, 2022 | ||
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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 Stefan Cohen invest in?
Stefan Cohen invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Blockchain startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Stefan Cohen invest in?
Stefan Cohen typically joins rounds of $2.9M–$6.2M at Seed, $8M–$88M at Series A and $25M–$128M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Stefan Cohen's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Stefan Cohen took part in.
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When did Stefan Cohen last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Stefan Cohen closed in Oct 2026. Shizune tracks 25 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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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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