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Kevin Zhang

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In search of ta'veren. Partner @BainCapVC , prev. @Fundera & @ColumbiaEntrep .

San Francisco, CA

https://t.co/kKsAGorVKI

Joined May 2009

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@kevinzhang

Kevin Zhang

1 month

Congratulations to @handotdev , @hahnbeeIee , and the @mintlify team on your Series A today! It's no longer possible to be a leading company without top-tier developer communications, and Mintlify is the modern standard for documentation. To celebrate the occasion, I'm setting my

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Han Wang

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Beyond excited to announce @mintlify 's $18M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Since launching the product less than two years ago, we’ve grown to power the documentation for thousands of the fastest growing startups including Anthropic, Perplexity, Cursor, Pinecone, Zapier,

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@kevinzhang

Kevin Zhang

1 year

🥩 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐀𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐝, 𝐖𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 (table-side for slicing): Please consider joining us for BCV x Fogo de Chao. Let us know you’re interested: like, retweet, DM us (or @BainCapVC ), or for extra credit, tell us something that’s true of both Fogo de Chão and your employer.

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

I’ll do whatever founders want 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

You’ll never guess how our court system names civil forfeiture cases

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

I’ll do whatever founders want 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Mayank

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1 year

Text your friends at Bain Cap today

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Kevin Zhang

7 months

Thrilled to partner with @celinehalioua and the team at @loyalfordogs for longer, healthier dog lives—and happier human families! 🐶🏡

@celinehalioua

Celine Halioua

7 months

hey guess what we've raised another $45M to extend dog lifespan, led by Bain Capital Ventures ( @kevinzhang @ChristinaPhili5 @alysaaco ) bringing total $ raised since I started Loyal 4.5 years ago to $125M

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Honored to support @saraduit , @greggmojica , and the @AlloyAutomation team in connecting and automating e-commerce operations. Congratulations on your seed financing! //

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Automating the Ecommerce Stack: Our Investment in Alloy

We’re delighted to announce that BCV led a $5M seed financing for Alloy, a provider of integration and automation tools for ecommerce.

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

@mattturck @ykevinzhang @kevinyzhang @kevinzhangEDU I’m actually filing paperwork to change my name to Matt Turck

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Kevin Zhang

10 months

Typical dreary winter day today.

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Amrit Pal

1 year

Such a spectacular day today. I had to seek shade!

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

Thrilled to work with @HightouchData since the Series A, and to announce today that BCV led a new, $38M financing. Hightouch has quickly become the standard for Reverse ETL, and we’re even more excited about their leadership in the growing movement for composable CDP.

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Hightouch

1 year

📢 Exciting news! Hightouch has secured $38M in funding, with @BainCapVC leading the way, along with esteemed investors @ICONIQGrowth and @AmplifyPartners . This investment furthers our mission to revolutionize how organizations manage, explore, and activate their data 🚀.

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

For the past year, we’ve seen an influx of talented, product-centric teams focused on productivity software. I wanted to write about what we've learned from them: underlying drivers, how they differentiate, and where there's important whitespace.

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Productivity Software in 2020

Our work tools are more critical than ever, and a wave of startups are successfully challenging the dominant suites from Google, Microsoft, Adobe and Cisco.

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

Glad we paid a high multiple for this business

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Pavel Asparouhov

@Pavel_Asparagus

1 year

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bain Capital Ventures Acquires Renowned Very Cool Tech Mixer SF, Sep 16, 2023 – We are excited to announce that after intense and productive negotiations through the night @BainCapVC has successfully acquired the SF Happy Hour in SF. "The SF

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

😶‍🌫️

@michael_yu

mike

1 year

get yourself an investor ( @baincapvc ) who will serve you 🥩 with a side of great memes

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

🎉 Congratulations to the @ColumnTax team on their Series A announcement today! It's been incredible to see this product, team, and business come together so quickly over the past year. Michael explains it best, but a few thoughts... 👇

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Michael R. Bock

2 years

Thrilled to share we've raised $21.7m for @ColumnTax to scale up our fundamentally new tax filing product It's been so much fun building the first-ever IRS authorized tax filing API with the amazing team here

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Grateful that we're announcing $1.3B in new funds today, as well as our redoubled determination to work with the best founders as early as possible. Some more details below! 👇

@BainCapVC

Bain Capital Ventures

3 years

More about our latest fund, including how we got to where we are today & what we're psyched about going forward as we look to back founders early & help them build amazing companies 🔥👇 @Cookie @TechCrunch #backedbyBCV

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Glad to finally be announcing our $5.1M seed financing for @ColumnTax ! Thrilled to see what developers and fintechs will do to transform tax with Column's APIs. cc @KeriGohman @BainCapVC

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Income Tax Is The Next Financial Primitive

Column Tax empowers developers to build with tax, enabling any company to calculate user tax liabilities, suggest withholding…

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Every couple of decades, as technology and markets shift, software companies set new standards for "best in class". In 2020, users have more power than ever. My partner @ajay_bcv and I published some of our observations today from working with leading software founders. 👇

@ajay_bcv

Ajay Agarwal

4 years

1/ We are at an exciting inflection pt. in history of business sw: the rise of the USER as key decision maker. This has profound implications for how sw co's get built and for the tooling (CRM, Mktg tools, prod. roadmap) that sw co's require to scale.

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

I am not @kzdagoof

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Curio

2 years

A new player has arrived … We raised $2.9M from @BainCapCrypto , @tcg_crypto and others to build the next generation of crypto games hyper focused on composable user-generated content.

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

🎉 Congratulations to @0xMagmar and @BPIV400 on their $6.5M seed financing for @SkipProtocol ! There's a lot to say about the importance and impact of what they're building, but today I just want to emphasize that they’re *special* people, and you should work with them.

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Skip

2 years

We are proud to announce that Skip Protocol has completed a $6.5 million seed round to support the development of MEV infrastructure for the Cosmos ecosystem! A little bit on why we're we're embarking on this journey below... 1/

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Kevin Zhang

7 months

Loved this quote, among others, from Jensen’s recent Wired interview. Respects the competition, focuses on the customer, believes the mission. No drama, just 30 years of dedication that’s catalyzed gaming, simulation and AI.

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Kevin Zhang

5 years

Seems like there’s an uptick in founders sharing “investment memos” in lieu of decks. Is someone recommending this? Is the ICO whitepaper coming to the rest of venture?

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

Highlight for me was learning everything about steakhouses from this all star grillside chat 🔥

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1 year

It’s Fogo time! @kevinzhang 🥩 🍖

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Honored to congratulate @saraduit , @greggmojica , and @AlloyAutomation on a big milestone, and on their journey as founders and as a team. 🌱 Having seen them earn their progress every day, I couldn't feel more confident about their opportunity ahead. 🚀

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Sara Du

3 years

my parents immigrated w/ literally $100 & raised me in ATL. i taught myself to code, barely got into Harvard (ask me abt the ripped👖), & dropped out so im v grateful & excited to share that @a16z did our $20M series a 😭 truly feels like a 🇺🇸 dream

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

Super honored to have hosted Columbia in Tech this week at @BainCapVC ! What an incredible (+ growing!) community. #roarlionroar

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Congratulations to @michael_yu , @ydev , and the @usevesta team on your $30M Series A! Vesta's mortgage technology is bringing down the house (so to say) among lenders eager to move to modern, digital origination. 🏠🚀

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TechCrunch

3 years

Vesta closes on $30M in an a16z-led Series A to build a new kind of mortgage infrastructure by @bayareawriter

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Honored to be working with the incredible folks at @joinhomebase ! Today we announced @BainCapVC 's $20M Series B investment in their popular scheduling and hiring product for local businesses.

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Ajay Agarwal

6 years

Thrilled to be backing @J_Waldmann , Rushi, and the entire @joinhomebase team! . @BainCapVC

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Energized to get to work with and learn from @aaref . Welcome to the BCV family!

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Aaref Hilaly

4 years

1/ Thrilled to share that I’m joining @BainCapVC to focus on early-stage (seed & Series A)

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Honored that @BainCapVC is leading Argyle's Series A, supporting @ShmulikFriedman , @billymarsden , @Zujus and the @withArgyle team in empowering workers to control their work data and open access to new products and financial services.

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Ajay Agarwal

4 years

We are thrilled to lead the series A in @withArgyle after participating in their seed last year. Honored to be working with @ShmulikFishman @billymarsden and @Zujus and collaborating with @BainCapVC partners @mattcharris @KeriGohman and @kevinzhang

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Kevin Zhang

9 months

🤔 spacious indeed

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

1/ @ajay_bcv and I announced our latest Series A investment today. But the story here actually starts in 1919, with the US Army Motor Transport Corps Convoy. Bear with me (and my armchair history) here…

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Kevin Zhang

5 years

Honored to support @Thejo and the @AirbaseHQ team in their mission to set a new standard in spend management!

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Ajay Agarwal

5 years

Check this out - Show Me The Receipts: 4+ Reasons Why We Invested In Airbase! . @airbasehq @baincapvc

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

@patagucci_girl @jtannady When my wife first told her friends she was dating “Kevin Zhang”, they asked: “oh, is he the startup hoodie one, or the buff shirtless one who is at the gym literally all the time?”

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Kevin Zhang

5 years

Literally no one: Me: Clearly, the ban on plastic water bottles at SFO is the work of the Aluminumati.

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Feeling mobilized by our new investment in @limebike ! 🛴 Congratulations to @sasmith4 , @tobysun and honored to join the citrus family.

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Sarah Smith

6 years

With lots of excitement and chatter in the scooter space, @kevinzhang @Ece_Erdagoz and I did a deep dive on micromobility and met some incredible people. We are proud at @BainCapVC to back the @limebike team coleading their Series D! @tobysun #backedbyBCV

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

Congratulations to @henri_stern , @asta_li , and @privy_io on announcing your seed financing... and modest mission of securing user data in web3! 🔐

@privy_io

Privy

2 years

Hi!

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

@VCGuideHQ @BainCapital Honestly, I'm a 7/10 on my best days, plus I have off days too--I worry about setting expectations too high! 😅 Happy to chat live anytime, though. I'll send you an email.

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

grateful for @Wizards ‘ commitment to helping players like me feel represented

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Honored to support @voxmatt , @lerhaupt , and the @getclockwise team in their mission to help everyone make time for what matters!

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Bain Capital Ventures

4 years

Psyched to share our Series B investment in @getclockwise , the smart calendar assistant revolutionizing the way teams spend their time. Looking forward to partnering with @voxmatt & @lerhaupt to continue to redefine workplace productivity. cc: @ajay_bcv

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

Congratulations to @yogooglemeup , @alexzirbel , and the Playbook team on announcing the Series A, and even moreso for so quickly building a following among tens of thousands of creatives!

@playbook_hq

Playbook

2 years

Today, we're announcing a $18 million Series A led by @BainCapVC . This round added new investors, @eladgil , @blank_vc , and @hyphencapital , and continued investment from their seed investors, @foundersfund , @AbstractVC , and @MapleVCFund .

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Docs, files, images aren't on local drives anymore--it's all in the cloud now. Indexing and ranking these sources is hard, but Command E makes search feel effortless. So thrilled today for @tauebel , @aguynamedben , and the @getcommande team on their launch! 🚀🔎✨

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Tom Uebel

4 years

One command. One search. Every service. Introducing Command E - now available on Mac and PC, no invite necessary. Start flying through your workday 👇

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

1/ Delighted to announce our seed/Series A investments in @_gridai , supporting @_willfalcon , @luiscape , and their team in championing @PyTorchLightnin and building tools that allow commercial users to focus on machine learning, not infrastructure. //

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Lightning Doesn’t Strike Twice

Our Investment in Grid, a Unique Team and Approach to Enabling Deep Learning

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

📢 Honored to announce today our partnership with @ycwest , @pklicnik , and the @RelayFinancial team in building the future of collaborative, integrated business banking.

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Yoseph West

3 years

Today, we’re sharing that we've raised $19.4 million USD, including a $15 million Series A led by @BainCapVC , with participation from @btv_vc , @GarageCapital , @tribecap , @PanacheVC , and @amaranthinevc . 🙌📈🚀 Read more here 👉

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

Very grateful to get to work with @saraduit , @greggmojica , and the whole @AlloyAutomation team. 🤩

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Bain Capital Ventures

2 years

BCV portfolio company @AlloyAutomation was founded to make #ecommerce better with its #nocode platform. BCV partner @kevinzhang chatted with co-founder @saraduit on what inspired her to become a founder and why "BCV is a real powerhouse" for founders.

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

I met Peter ( @shrewdinvestor ) for the first time at Starbucks on Castro St in Mountain View. I ordered a raspberry passionfruit lemonade... It was my first summer in the Valley as an intern; Peter was a mentor to Columbia students getting into tech. I'd never met a VC before.

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Natalie Luu

4 years

Last Friday, I lost a mentor and friend of almost 10 years. RIP Peter Hsing of @MerusCapital . Thanks for believing in me when I had little to nothing on my resume as a college sophomore and introducing me to some of my closest friends in venture like @kevinzhang

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Huge congrats to @nrmehta and the @GainsightHQ team on announcing their acquisition today--and on setting a category-creating example for the next generation of software founders.

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Ajay Agarwal

4 years

1/ On behalf of the entire team here @BainCapVC we wanted to send our congrats to @nrmehta and the team @GainsightHQ on today's amazing news. We are so grateful to @nrmehta and team for including us in this incredible journey. Read more here:

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

We're honored to be part of the Series A announcement today for @HightouchData . It's been incredible to see how quickly Kash, Tejas, Josh and the team are building the product and company--and they've already attracted a long list of discerning customers.

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kashish

3 years

today is one of those days where 3 years of sleepless nights feels like it was all worth it 😴 i can't express how grateful I am to wake up every day and work with the best people in the world 🔥 come join us! 🚀

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Thrilled to congratulate @kashgupta_ , @tejasmanohar , and @joshwget on their Series B, and more importantly, on the team and customer community that has so rapidly coalesced around the exceptional @HightouchData team, culture and product. 😍🚀

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kashish

3 years

its not the product, it's the team 💪 our team deserves a huge shoutout today, they made this happen!! 😎 behind the scenes, 3 yrs of heart and soul went into the journey, and we're just getting started 🚀 come join us!

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

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@nocturne_xyz

Nocturne

1 year

1/ For crypto to reach its next stage of growth, it must be used less for speculation and become more like money. We believe privacy is a necessary condition for this to occur. @nocturne_xyz we’re excited to introduce a new primitive to the Ethereum ecosystem—private accounts 🧵

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Kevin Zhang

10 months

Congratulations @LithosCarbon on one of the largest carbon purchases in history—$57.1M. That… rocks! 🪨

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Judy Savitskaya

10 months

📢Announcing that Frontier buyers signed $57M in CDR offtakes w/ @LithosCarbon . Lithos will deliver 154,240 tons of CDR in the next 2-6 years. ~100K of that comes before 2026. ‼️ That’s 10X more than all CDR delivered to date across all pathways ‼️

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Kevin Zhang

5 years

After virtual reality, AI, computational biology, and ICOs it feels like the latest wave to hit the Valley is... "product-led" productivity software. What a time to be alive!

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Kevin Zhang

10 months

Congratulations and welcome, @RonMiasnik !

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ron

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Dream job with a dream team!

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

So honored to support @TAGuthrie and the Propel community. It's incredible to see the depth of talent that's come together in so short a time to share learnings, compare perspectives, and hold each other accountable!

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

So thrilled to be welcoming @ChristinaPhili5 to the BCV team! 🤩

@ChristinaPhili5

Christina Melas-Kyriazi

@ChristinaPhili5

3 years

Some news! After 3 amazing years at @Affirm , I’m excited to announce I’ve joined @BainCapVC as a Partner. I’ll be investing in the next generation of fintech and commerce companies.

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

I always learn so much from interns. Thank you @jeannethai , @CCgong and @HanYeeWang for spending the summer with us! I hope you'll hire me as your tour guide again soon. 🌲🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

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Bain Capital Ventures

3 years

🏅 Happy National Intern Day to a #futuresobright group beyond compare. Here @BainCapVC summer interns @jeannethai , @HanYeeWang & @CCgong enjoy a team-building day in the SF Bay with our partner @kevinzhang . #NationalInternDay cc @sasmith4 @aaref

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Congrats, @natluu —sounds like it really catered to your investment criteria!

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Natalie Luu

6 years

Announcing our investment in @ezCater , where we're leading the $150M Series D-1🍕🍜🥑 #LightspeedGrowth

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Kevin Zhang

5 years

I feel fortunate every day to be working with and learning from my partner @sasmith4 ! Check out 45mins of her distilled wisdom on @twentyminutevc . 🧠📚🤔

@sasmith4

Sarah Smith

5 years

So fun to be on my very favorite podcast with THE @HarryStebbings on @twentyminutevc to chat @BainCapVC , @limebike , @getperksy , board games +++ Download it today and help break the dl record! Tell me what you think 📻❤🙌

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Incredible update today for @getcommande : jump into video calls, create documents, enjoy new integrations and of course, search your own device, all from one place.

@getcommande

Command E

4 years

1/ Today we unveil our biggest update to Command E so far - making it seamless to navigate your calendar, find files on your computer, and create new Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. All on top of the blazing-fast cloud search you already know and love 💪

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

Love this photo from our event last week at @BainCapVC with the Xoogler community, @jamisonh and Sri from Onera. :)

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

I'm jealous of future biotech founders who'll get to work with @MichaelRetchin and the @NucleateHQ team!

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Huge congratulations today to @thejo and the @AirbaseHQ team on their Series B!

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Thejo Kote

3 years

1/ I'm very happy to announce that @AirbaseHQ has raised $60M in a new Series B round of funding at a $600M valuation. The round was led by @MenloVentures with all of our existing investors doubling down. A quick thread on why we raised now when we didn't really need the money:

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

Who said MBAs aren’t useful anymore?

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

@michaelrbock I suppose in some ways it functions like saline solution—quenches dehydration and helps support vision. 🤓

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

🎉 Congratulations to @han_y_wang and @hahnbeeIee on announcing your seed financing today! Accurate and up-to-date code documentation is now mission-critical. Mintlify makes that easy to enforce and easy to do.

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Mintlify

2 years

We are excited to announce that we have raised $2.8 million seed round led by @kevinzhang from BCV with participation from TwentyTwo Ventures, @ycombinator and @sqs . This would not be possible without the support and love of our users. Thank you! ❤️

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Kevin Zhang

5 months

I can confirm that Han is an extraordinary alien. Glad you’re here! 🇺🇸

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Han Wang

5 months

Two years ago, I received my O-1 visa. It gave me work authorization in the US as an "alien of extraordinary ability". It allowed me to move to San Francisco, the heart of the tech ecosystem to start a company, fulfilling a lifelong dream. I am forever grateful.

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

My partner @sasmith4 knocked it out of the park in her interview with @FortuneMagazine on @limebike ! Check it out for super clear, concise, data-driven insights into our investment thesis.

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Sarah Smith

6 years

In a world of quick sound bites, I really enjoyed this detailed conversation with @polina_marinova at @FortuneMagazine on how my team at @BainCapVC and I decided to venture into the micro-mobility space and how @limebike emerged as a winning investment! @kevinzhang @Ece_Erdagoz

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

This is insane--and illustrates why trusted third parties like @fundera are so important in the market for small business financial products. I lost count of the times when business owners we talked to had horrific experiences with abusive lending practices.

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Bloomberg

6 years

Here's an inside look at the predatory lending machine crushing small businesses across America. From @BW :

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

✨ Congratulations to the @get_magical team, who are coming out of stealth today with 400,000 users across 10,000+ companies, and a big vision for automating away mundane work. A few thoughts:

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Automation for Everyone

Our Investment in Magical

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

🎉🥂🎊

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Catherine Giese

6 years

Mama we made it! @fundera just made the Inc 5000. Congrats to the team on being named #69 on Inc's list of the 5000 fastest growing companies in the US 🎉🎉 … via @Inc

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

Huge congratulations to @albertgozzi , @ChristinaPhili5 , team @getaleph … and soon, finance leaders everywhere. 🥳

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@ChristinaPhili5

1 year

I'm thrilled to announce we've led the Series A of Aleph ( @getaleph ): the source of truth for financial data. @albertgozzi has a big vision and has been moving fast. We were floored by the love from customers like Zapier, Notion, Webflow and Turo and are excited to back Albert in

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Rejected puns: "When regulators give you lemons..."; "Great news to break up the sour weather"; "Lime is our main squeeze!", etc.

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

🤔 everyone wants to know

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Kevin Zhang

1 year

I’ll do whatever founders want 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

Super honored that Amit's joining us as an EIR, and excited to see what he builds next!

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Ajay Agarwal

7 years

Very excited to welcome Amit Aggarwal as an EIR at @BainCapVC !!!

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

Delighted to see @saraduit , @greggmojica , and @AlloyAutomation recognized by Forbes this year!

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Forbes

2 years

#ForbesUnder30 : Marketing & Advertising @saraduit and Gregg Mojica, built a mission control for e-commerce by cofounding Alloy Automation in 2019-- a no-code interface to connect and automate sales-oriented tasks across hundreds of apps such as Shopify.

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Kevin Zhang

10 years

Congrats as always to the incredible team at @ColumbiaEntrep for an amazing event! @KimberlyJHou @SatzAndrew #ThielAtCU #corelove

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

I've gotten to sit in on dozens of board meetings with @ajay_bcv , and I'm glad he's sharing the best practices that've helped make those discussions maximally productive!

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Ajay Agarwal

3 years

The most frequent Q I get from founders after our initial funding is: "any advice on best way to run the board meetings?". Here are my thoughts after thousands of board meetings of seed, Series A, growth, and public companies. @saastr @BainCapVC

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Congratulations to @tauebel , @aguynamedben , and the @getcommande team. I'm excited about what you'll accomplish with Dropbox!

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Dropbox

3 years

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve signed an agreement to acquire @getcommande , a universal search company.

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

Congratulations to @bo__dun and @FeatheryForms on launching today! This has been years of craftsmanship and diligent work in the making. 😍 I'm excited about a future where product teams can adopt best-practice onboarding, application, and other forms with a simple integration!

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Feathery

2 years

Today we’re excited to announce our public launch. Learn how we’re enabling product teams to build more powerful forms and get started for free. #lowcode #nocode #forms

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

@BainCapVC @ColumbiaEntrep @ColumbiaCCE @Columbia_CCAA @wendeeyah @ColumbiaAlumniA @ColumbiaNorCal ... and I think everyone had the benefit of the most amazing organizing team ( @anoushkavaswani , @jackiehluo , @KathyXSun , @imkevinchu ). :)

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Kevin Zhang

10 years

Hey @ColumbiaEntrep I have a question. Is #IgniteCU gonna be the best entrepreneurship conference, or the best conference ever?

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Kevin Zhang

4 months

Is there any better end to the week than pulling a corgi, cat, tree, Eladamri and playing a respectable 2-1 at the Magic prerelease?

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Bonusx2/ Delighted that we're joining the Ike convoy alongside incredible co-investors @akad ( @redpointvc ), @ctstallman ( @Fontinalis_FP ), @xuezhao ( @BasisSet ), Dave Ferguson ( @nurobots ), and @apartovi ( @neo )!

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

My partner @ajay_bcv and I were fortunate to work with @hsambhi during his time as an EIR at BCV, and to co-lead the seed financing for Magical. Harpaul, Prashant, Zach and Rosie have since attracted an incredible team--and continue to grow!

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Excited to kicking off and hearing about life-saving drones with @zipline and @keenanwyrobek ! #roboshow19

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

@anaganath Send me the deck! 😉

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

Thousands of teams have picked up Magical (and therefore supernatural productivity powers!) over the past couple of years. That's why I'm thrilled about our "multiplayer" feature suite, launching today. Check it out! 👇

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Magical

2 years

BIG NEWS: Magical has officially gone multiplayer. 🕹 See the full announcement to find out how setting up your team on Magical can improve each of your teammate's productivity by 20%.

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

Sadly the team has not yet embraced my suggestion to make it easier to bundle a cute NFT collectible with each mortgage.

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

Thanks to @baka111 , @grahamober , and everyone who stopped by. Hope it was fun!

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Bain Capital Ventures

7 years

Welcome to BCV SF for your #venture trek, @Wharton !

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

@saraduit I guess we are officially hiring for a Head of Real Estate Platform Services

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

@NikMilanovic I love that the @ColumnTax team combines deep tax expertise (decades at TaxAct!) with experience turning complex technical problems into consumer-grade software (Dropbox and autonomous vehicles).

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

Honored to be co-hosting @theAWIP ’s Leadership Through Influence event at @BainCapVC , with @nitrosf , @tmamut , @sarikagarg , @dscheinm !

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Sounds like you were excited to buy a pizza the company

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

Jen is making it easy to discover emerging companies you can bet your career on. If you might be looking for something more entrepreneurial, check out “Founders You Should Know”! 👇

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Jen Yip

2 years

Want to join a startup at that magical inflection point? Apply to join our second in-person "Founders You Should Know" startup showcase on June 29th in SF. Sneak peek at our 🔥 founders: @immunoglobulin , @jrdngonen @yogooglemeup , @feltmaps Apply now!

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Kevin Zhang

4 years

Delighted to see @PoweredByIke 's partnerships with leading freight carriers recognized today in the Wall Street Journal's report on adoption of automated trucking technology.

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Ike

4 years

We're excited to be working with Ryder, DHL, and NFI to put automation technology in their hands and help make our transportation system more productive. Read the news in today's WSJ: And on our blog:

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

@BainCapVC @ColumbiaEntrep @ColumbiaCCE @Columbia_CCAA @wendeeyah @ColumbiaAlumniA @ColumbiaNorCal @anoushkavaswani @jackiehluo @KathyXSun @imkevinchu As I said then, I wouldn't be anywhere without the support of alums like @shrewdinvestor and @clairethere . Can only hope to pay it forward.

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Kevin Zhang

7 years

@BainCapVC + huge thanks to @ColumbiaEntrep , @ColumbiaCCE , @Columbia_CCAA ( @wendeeyah !), @ColumbiaAlumniA ( @ColumbiaNorCal ) on outreach...

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Kevin Zhang

5 years

@gxzliu For Prezis, I skip the meeting and just ask for their wiring instructions

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

@nonmayorpete You’re paying for brunch from now on!

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Kevin Zhang

6 years

Given the scale I imagine it took some real noodling on the numbers

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Kevin Zhang

3 years

I love recommending South Park Commons’ community and programs, and am excited to see them launch this third Fellowship cohort!

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South Park Commons

@southpkcommons

3 years

1/ Thrilled to open applications for our 3rd Founder Fellowship cohort—$400k in funding pre-idea. But this time, with our friends @ScriptCapital , @mvernal from @sequoia , @zoink , @ljin18 , and @multicoincap , we're going all-in on web3.

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Kevin Zhang

2 years

I can’t make it this time, which means you all have a shot at winning at 7 Wonders if you attend this game night. 😁👇

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Tejas Manohar

2 years

Is SF back? Probably not 🤷‍♂️ But hey 👋— if you're like me and free this Thursday, I have something fun for you! @kashgupta_ , @joshwget , and I are throwing the world's best game night at @HightouchData 's HQ. Everyone is welcome. Reply below for an invite... ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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