Stephen Pagliuca
Angel Investor @ Bain Capital Ventures
Boston, United States
Stephen Pagliuca is a Series B investor at Bain Capital Ventures in Boston focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Stephen G. Pagliuca has served as a director from July 1990 (except for a six month hiatus beginning in late 2009 when he entered the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race).Mr. Pagliuca is a Managing Director of Bain Capital Partners, LLC and is also a Managing Partner and an owner of the Boston Celtics basketball franchise. Mr. Pagliuca joined Bain& Company in 1982, and founded the Information Partners private equity fund for Bain Capital in 1989.Prior to joining Bain, Mr. Pagliuca worked as a senior accountant and international tax specialist for Peat Marwick Mitchell & Company in the Netherlands.
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
Last updated:
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Industries Stephen Pagliuca invests in
Stages Stephen Pagliuca invests in
Countries Stephen Pagliuca invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Series A
- $13M–$250M
- Series B
- $10M–$160M
- Series C
- $32M–$70M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (13%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (13%)
- SaaS 2 (8%)
- Sports 2 (8%)
- FinTech 2 (8%)
Stage
- Series B 7 (29%)
- Series A 4 (17%)
- Series C 3 (13%)
- Seed 2 (8%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (8%)
Country
- United States 11 (46%)
- India 2 (8%)
- Israel 1 (4%)
- Nigeria 1 (4%)
- Indonesia 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Cybercrime is on the rise, with attacks becoming ever more frequent and sophisticated. Innocent users who surf the web and communicate online are falling into traps and scams as they have no sufficient way to know if the business they are dealing with is real or fake.While the market has invested tremendous effort into end-user authentication,the natural next step for the industry is a fully comprehensive solution that covers every point of impact between the user and the organization.PoSA is the world’s first solution that provides strong and secure proof of website and communication authenticity via a digital watermark. It has unique protection capabilities to secure both the organization and the user. PoSA provides the organization with an extremely easy-to-install watermark and real-time alerts. The intuitiveness of the solution allows full visibility and control over potential attacks. It can be deployed in stages, and be integrated with existing SOC systems.The users receive immediate visual confirmation that the organization they are interacting with is real, all the while requiring no installation or registration from them. | $37M / Series A / Jan 27, 2026 | ||
| MaintainX is a software company that provides maintenance and asset management tools for industrial and frontline operations. Its platform helps organizations manage work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, reporting, asset tracking, and parts inventory through a centralized digital system. The company integrates AI-powered features thatassist teams with troubleshooting, data collection, operational analysis, and predictive maintenance workflows. MaintainX is used across industries such as manufacturing, facilities management, food and beverage, retail, and distribution to improve equipment uptime and streamline maintenance processes. The platform also supports compliance and safety procedures by digitizing workflows and standardizing maintenance operations across multiple sites. | $150M / Series D / Jul 09, 2025 | ||
| Building AGI, AI as Service, Generative AI | $250M / Series A / Dec 13, 2024 | ||
| MaintainX is a software company that provides maintenance and asset management tools for industrial and frontline operations. Its platform helps organizations manage work orders, preventive maintenance, inspections, reporting, asset tracking, and parts inventory through a centralized digital system. The company integrates AI-powered features thatassist teams with troubleshooting, data collection, operational analysis, and predictive maintenance workflows. MaintainX is used across industries such as manufacturing, facilities management, food and beverage, retail, and distribution to improve equipment uptime and streamline maintenance processes. The platform also supports compliance and safety procedures by digitizing workflows and standardizing maintenance operations across multiple sites. | $50M / Series C / Dec 06, 2023 | ||
| Building AGI, AI as Service, Generative AI | $37.5M / Seed / Dec 01, 2023 | ||
| Lula Technologies is a provider of insurance services. With Lula, customers are able to better assess their customer's risk, administer policies, manage their claims, and embed their own insurance products into their business flows. | $35.5M / Series B / Aug 03, 2023 | ||
| Releaf is a supply chain technology firm that sources ingredients for African food factories. It aims to create climate-adaptive supply chains as Africa's population grows by 3 billion people. Releaf also provides extension services to smallholders, acts as a buyer of their products, and converts the raw material into factory-grade inputs forvegetable oil factories. Releaf uses digital technologies such as USSD and open banking, in addition to hardware, to work seamlessly with its network of over 2,000 smallholder farmers, who have supplied over 15 million kilograms of quality palm kernel nuts to food factories. | $3.3M / Seed / Jan 09, 2023 | ||
| Atmos develops a home-building platform to assist in the creation and design of customized houses. The company is constructing a managed marketplace for homebuilding, connecting home buyers.The company's platform makes it easier for customers to find and build their own homes according to their preferences, choices, and financial situationby offering a variety of designs, personalized packages, and interiors along with financing and construction processes.Atmos was established in 2018 by Trent Hedge, Nicholas Donahue, Matthew Rastovac, and Austin Kahn. | $12.5M / Series A / Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Super is the first Indonesian consumer technology company backed by Y Combinator, which oversees the main feature, Superagen. Superagen is agent-led commerce group buying that enables community leaders to become retailers within their communities.We use technology to: 1) Empower community leaders to become self-made entrepreneurs by enabling themto sell various products to their communities2) Build a logistics network with the lowest cost3) Facilitate communication for social-buying behavior so our agents can sell various products through social networks like WhatsApp | $70M / Series C / Jun 02, 2022 | ||
| TAPPP makes it easy for consumers to access sports content and bet by unlocking multiple payment options. TAPPP has made MLB and NFL streaming products available across the largest physical and digital retailers in the US. TAPPP is now extending those payment options for sports betting, making it safer and easier for millions of customers to top uptheir accounts using cash. Headquartered in New York City, TAPPP's mission is to make sports content more engaging and accessible to fans. | $10M / Series B / Apr 05, 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
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Ron Miasnik
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FAQ
What does Stephen Pagliuca invest in?
Stephen Pagliuca invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and SaaS startups, most often at Series B and Series A stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Stephen Pagliuca's check size?
Stephen Pagliuca typically joins rounds of $13M–$250M at Series A, $10M–$160M at Series B and $32M–$70M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stephen Pagliuca participates in.
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When did Stephen Pagliuca last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Stephen Pagliuca closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 24 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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