We’re excited to announce that Amanda Huang has been promoted to Principal at Bain Capital Ventures.

When I think over the many contributions Amanda has made to BCV and try to summarize them, the first word that comes to mind is ‘community.’

For many of the founders, scouts and fellows we work with, their first contact with BCV comes through one of the many programs that Amanda runs. That might be Cafe Compute, the late-night pop-up co-working and networking series she co-founded with Sarah Chieng from Cerebras, or one of the smaller, more intimate Research Roundtables she organizes with authors of landmark ML papers. Early-stage VC is, above all else, about people — and Amanda has brought an extraordinary number of them into our community.

I love analyzing early-stage companies with Amanda because of the unique lenses she brings to bear. Before joining BCV, Amanda worked in backend engineering and developer experience, including on Adobe Creative Cloud’s developer ecosystem. She’s done economics research, but she’s also spent real time thinking about how tools feel in the hands of developers and creators.

When thinking about early-stage startups, Amanda has an amazing ability to simultaneously understand the key technological innovations and the more subjective product ‘hooks’ that really matter in driving adoption — a huge asset both to Bain as investors and to the founders whom Amanda works with. She played a key role in our investments in Periodic Labs, Black Forest Labs, Polars, and many others.

Amanda graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from Claremont McKenna College, and grew up between Los Angeles and Taipei. That mix of technical rigor, economic thinking and global perspective is reflected in how she approaches both investing and community building: analytically sharp, deeply curious and genuinely inclusive.

We’re excited to congratulate Amanda on her promotion, and look forward to the things she’ll do next as a Principal on the team.