Ajay Agarwal

EXPERIENCE

Ajay Agarwal joined Bain Capital in 2003. He is a Partner and leads the Bay Area offices for the Ventures team. Ajay is focused on early-stage application software and SaaS investing. His passion is working with early-stage founders on team-building, culture, iteration of product market fit, and scaling the early go-to-market operations. Ajay's primary investment themes include commerce enablement, the revolution of the sales and marketing functions, and the use of big data and machine learning to transform business applications. In 2012 and 2013, Ajay was named to the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Venture Capital Investors.

Prior to joining Bain Capital, Ajay was head of sales and marketing at Trilogy, where he grew annual revenues to $300 million. Previously, he was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company.

EDUCATION

Ajay has an MBA from Harvard Business School and has a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He also holds a patent for the “Method and Apparatus of Configuration Solutions.”