BCV Labs is a bespoke incubation experience designed to help exceptional builders start generational companies. We offer ideation-stage founders space, compute, talent, customer networks, and community.
HOW IT WORKS
Where the exceptional become generational.
BCV Labs builds on the reach of Bain Capital's global networks to help founders turn their ideas into lasting businesses. We provide a bespoke incubation experience with flexible financing options, in-house support for talent and customer development, and our partnership with decades of experience starting and scaling public companies.Bring us your earliest ideas—Identify an interesting market or idea to pursue, with our Partners providing tailored, hands-on support every turn of the journey.
Bring us your earliest ideas—Identify an interesting market or idea to pursue, with our Partners providing tailored, hands-on support every turn of the journey.We help validate the idea and potential product solutions with buyers and users from our networks, accelerating your path to discovering a wedge.We work together to convert customer conversations into design partners and our in-house talent team helps recruit your first few co-conspirators to deliver the product.We work together to iterate on the product and build customer pipeline as the startup matures to gain momentum.
BCV Labs Resources
Fueling Your Path from Idea to IPO
BCV Labs offers access to a global network of CTOs, engineering leaders, AI experts, and industry buyers, providing the support and feedback needed to turn visionary ideas into successful ventures.
All entrepreneurs working with BCV Labs have access to our incubation space in Palo Alto, where they can build, connect with other founders, researchers and engineers, as well as meet customers.
We run monthly events in Palo Alto and San Francisco with small, curated groups to connect like-minded people to each other and have targeted conversations. Our founders have found co-founders, early employees, and customers at these gatherings.
We build annual cohorts of a dozen rising stars in AI who are nominated by their peers as exhibiting high potential. Our current batch of fellows hails from OpenAI, Anthropic, FAIR, MosaicML and more, while others are starting their own companies.
We offer compute credits with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, OpenAI, Anthropic and NVIDIA, totaling around $1 million. In many cases, the Bain platform has proven to be an accelerant in securing in-demand compute clusters.
Feedback and usage patterns from our design partners can transform young companies. BCV Labs founders access Bain Capital's global network of CTOs, engineering leaders, AI experts, and industry buyers, gaining high-quality, relevant feedback on their ideas.
Our talent team has built some of the valley’s most iconic EPD organizations like Netflix, Airbnb and Dropbox. We help BCV Labs founders find their co-conspirators, from founding team members to early engineers and beyond.
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If you’re interested in incubating at BCV Labs, we’d love to talk to you!
BCV Labs is where ambition meets opportunity. Whether you’re a proven product leader, an AI engineer with a mission, or a college dropout with a groundbreaking idea—this is your opportunity to innovate, excel, and lead. Work with us to build a generational business with real product-market fit.
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