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Future Back Ventures
Corporate VC
Future Back Ventures is a venture fund within Bain & Company that invests in early-stage start-ups founded or led by Bain alumni, and in select cases start-ups led by non-alumni. It supports portfolio companies with Bain's advisory expertise, alumni network, talent and introductions.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
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Your fit with Future Back Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsFuture Back Ventures lists 22 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 8 funding rounds. Its most frequent entry is Series A, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (26%), Enterprise Software (14%) and Fintech (14%). 75% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners and General Catalyst.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Future Back Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Future Back Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 8 companies; its own site lists 22. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 38% |
| Series A | 50% |
| Series B | 13% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 1 | 0 |
| '25 | 2 | 0 |
| '26 | 5 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 55th | 22 companies |
| Recent activity | 86th | 5 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 65th | 38% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 96th | 27% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 39th | 26% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 70th | 4 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 26% | 18% |
| Enterprise Software | 14% | 8% |
| Fintech | 14% | 12% |
| Consumer | 7% | 3% |
| Education | 5% | 7% |
| Legal & Compliance | 5% | 2% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 5% | 6% |
| Space & Defense | 5% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Y Combinator | 3 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| General Catalyst | 2 |
| Rocketship.vc | 2 |
| Uncork Capital | 2 |
| 645 Ventures | 1 |
| 8VC | 1 |
| AI Fund | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers2195%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company15%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare Future Back Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with Future Back Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 26 Oct 2026 | Series A | |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Seed | |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 6 Apr 2026 | Series A | |
| 16 Oct 2025 | Series A | |
| 3 Jul 2025 | Series B | |
| 6 Mar 2024 | Seed |
Round details for Future Back Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Future Back Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
22 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AeroVect deploys turnkey ground handling automation solutions for airlines and airports | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Applecart powers over 100 of the Fortune 500 and many other industry-leading organizations to reach key decision makers and those they trust | Media & EntertainmentEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Brightband is making AI weather forecasting tools available to all, to help humanity adapt to increasingly extreme weather. | AI & Machine LearningClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Clarasight provides an AI platform for enterprise travel and expense management | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Apr 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Common Sense Privacy offers software that provides attorney-level privacy guidance to help businesses stay compliant with privacy laws | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Doughlicious handcrafts cookie dough and gelato bites with gluten-free ingredients | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Defacto finances small and medium-sized businesses' cash flow needs on demand | FintechLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page | ||
| Duckbill handles tasks such as phone calls, errands, and negotiations on behalf of its users | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Mar 2024Seed | Page + round | |
| Chariot provides a platform for nonprofits to manage and process donations from Donor Advised Funds | FintechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Goodword provides a platform to manage and utilize professional relationships using artificial intelligence. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides a platform to manage commercial agreements between retailers and suppliers | E-commerce & MarketplacesEnterprise Software | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Hived provides same-day, next-day, and two-day electric parcel delivery services | E-commerce & MarketplacesSpace & Defense | Jul 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Nous saves households money, time and hassle by taking care of household bills and admin | FintechConsumer | Oct 2026Series A | Page + round | |
| Outset provides an AI-moderated research platform to help businesses understand their customers through context-aware interviews and simulated human data. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Seltz provides web search infrastructure for AI agents | AI & Machine LearningCybersecurity | Jun 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Strella is a customer research platform that uses AI to run in-depth interviews and generate actionable insights in just a few hours. | AI & Machine LearningConsumer | Oct 2025Series A | Page + round | |
FintechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | |||
| Vendelux provides an event marketing platform that uses AI to help companies manage and optimize their in-person marketing efforts | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Verisoul provides a platform for detecting and preventing fake accounts and fraud | FintechCybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Edge provides AI tools for intellectual property professionals to assist with tasks such as trademark clearance and patent drafting. | AI & Machine LearningLegal & Compliance | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 8 Nov 2026- Site
- futureback.vc
- Last read
- 8 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 8 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 Mar 2024
- Companies checked
- 22
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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