Vineet Edupuganti spent years at one of enterprise security's fastest-growing companies, going from ML engineer to product leader. That trajectory gave him a view of the problem most founders never get close enough to see, and @cogent_security is what came out of it. @vineete_5 is exactly the kind of founder we look for. Full Outlier Briefing: youtube.com/watch?v=SXhDA9b2…

What does it take to build an AI infrastructure company from the ground up? Our Co-Founder CEO @ChaseLochmiller joined @gracegongGG to share lessons learned from nearly 8 years of scaling Crusoe. Full conversation: 🎧youtube.com/live/dEi6m_Q1Y3g

Life announcement: I’ll continue @hardlaunching for the rest of my life & joining @BainCapVC as their Launcher-In-Residence, helping founders in & out of the portfolio to launch Now, 2 years since my first launch, @tomo will be my 10th & I’ll be their head of launch. More soon💛

AI is rewriting how your company's story gets told, and most leaders haven't caught up yet. BCV’s @allisonbraley joined Sean Garrett (@Affirm) and Terra Carmichael (@lyft) at #MediaSummitSF2026 to unpack what that means for brand perception when the narrator is an LLM.

Here’s what really went down at BCV Converge last week: ➔ Enterprises want productivity over cost cuts. Only 15% are proactively reducing headcount. ➔ Junior talent is being accelerated, not replaced. ➔ Consumption pricing is a harder sell than founders expect. This is straight from the leaders making these calls every day. The gap between AI hype and AI reality is still closing.

Round 2 of Mahjong Night is ON on Wednesday 6/24 from 6PM-8PM. 🀄 Cogent @BainCapVC are back! Tiles, good food, great drinks, and exclusive merch for the first 40 through the door. Never played? Pro instructors on deck. All levels welcome. Don't sleep on this one and RSVP now! partiful.com/e/bXWOqRGkxqJcf…

To most people, @loyalfordogs is a company that helps dogs live longer. To founder @celinehalioua, it’s the best model we have for understanding aging itself. The mission started with giving families more healthy years with their pets. Thanks to Celine’s passion for animals and years in the biotech industry, the implications could extend well beyond what anyone could have imagined. Few founders are thinking like Celine is. More on her mindset in the latest Outlier Briefing:

That’s a wrap on BCV Converge! This Tuesday, we hosted leaders from Fortune 500 companies across major industries to tackle one question: How are enterprises turning experimentation into real operating impact? Their answers are coming next week. Stay tuned.

Our partner, @slaterstich, has been observing the relationship between AI and mathematics for years. His new series, \begin{proof} is his way of bringing those conversations into the open. Episode 01 with Noam is out now. @polynoamial youtu.be/h4ZguzEMKAU?si=ZbsO…

3 months faster case progression. That’s what @LernerRowe is seeing with EvenUp PLAAS: 2x more claims opened, 3.3x more client outreach, and demands sent 30 days faster. Read more: evenuplaw.com/customers/lern…

Respectfully, anyone can build inside an established category. When @celinehalioua first sat down with the FDA, there was no playbook for what she was trying to do. No regulatory path for a lifespan extension drug has ever existed. She built the scientific case, designed the clinical trial, and created the regulatory path from scratch. Now, the @loyalfordogs clinical trial is underway. This is the kind of founder journey that we sit and stay for. Learn more:

Getting discharged from the hospital should be the easy part. Yet, 4 in 10 home health patients get turned away not because clinicians aren't available, but because the system is too admin-heavy to route care efficiently. Adaptive Innovations rebuilt that from scratch. 100k patient visits. 500 referring health organizations. A patient mix most providers won't touch, and they're profitable doing it. @joinadaptive just raised a $50M Series A. We're thrilled to keep supporting them as they grow. The category is about to get very interesting. Explore more: baincapitalventures.com/insi… @ChristinaPhili5 @AlexRWendland @ryanatolsma

Healthcare's new rule: the surgery isn't over when you leave the OR. So who owns the recovery? Medicare's TEAM model makes hospitals financially accountable for the full 30-day recovery. 743 hospitals. Five procedure types. No opt-out. Our partner, @alysaaco, shares why hospitals aren’t ready (and what to do about it) baincapitalventures.com/insi…

We’re going to assume that if you laughed at @celinehalioua for her idea to create @loyalfordogs, you aren’t a dog person. @kevinzhang was well aware that “dog longevity” isn’t your typical investment category. But Celine’s ambition and energy to make an impact was worth making space for. Hear more about the STAY Study and what it could mean for us owners if this trial is successful.

89% of the code at @cognition is written by Devin. The other 11% is the humans who built Devin. Make of that what you will. Coined “the first AI software engineer,” Cognition launched Devin two years ago and has now become the core infrastructure for how software is built inside some of the world’s most demanding organizations. Now, they are announcing their $1B Series D at a $26B valuation. @aaref has believed in them from the start and we love to see their work rewarded. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

When Chris Turlica and Hugo Dozois-Caouette started @maintainx, they were solving a problem that Silicon Valley wasn’t paying attention to: 80% of the global workforce wasn’t working at a desk, yet only 1% of software spend went toward tools for them. MaintainX built world class software for the factory floor. Today, this early insight becomes mainstream with Autodesk's proposed acquisition of MaintainX for $3.6B. We are proud to have led MaintainX's Series C in 2023 and co-led the Series D in 2025 alongside our friends at Bessemer. The tenacity, vision, and consistency that "Killer Teddy Bear" Chris Turlica and team bring to work every day are unparalleled. It has been a joy to work with them. Congratulations to the entire MaintainX team on this well-deserved milestone. baincapitalventures.com/insi… cc @BainCapVC @Abby__Meyers