Ajay Agarwal

Partner, Bain Capital Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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Ajay Agarwal is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, focusing on seed and early-stage software, B2B SaaS, and physical AI. He previously led sales and marketing at Trilogy Software before joining BCV to direct early investments in companies like SendGrid and Gainsight.

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Optimizely hit a $10M run rate before raising a Series A
“Dan raised a series A when I think you were already ten million dollar run rate. He went from a million to ten million on almost no capital.”
Ajay Agarwal Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 6:43 How to Break Out and Really Scale
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Agarwal: Most SaaS companies fail to build a meaningful second product
“If you look at the history of enterprise software and SaaS companies, you know, most companies rarely build a second product, you know, second product that's kind of as meaningful and as big and has as much potential as the first product.”
Ajay Agarwal Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 29:10 How to Break Out and Really Scale
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Optimizely boasted a three- to four-month payback period at Series A
“I think when we invested at the A, your payback period was three or four months.”
Ajay Agarwal Jul 7, 2017 ▶ 23:27 How to Break Out and Really Scale

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How to Break Out and Really Scale Jul 7, 2017 9m
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