Modal Labs
Optimizes AI inference to reduce compute costs and response time
$750MSeries D
ParticipantBC
Bain Capital Ventures
Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionOct 22, 2026 · AI · Jul 25, 2026
Bain Capital Ventures incubates companies, leads seed rounds and invests through growth, with teams focused on applied AI, infrastructure, security, health and physical AI.
BCV Labs provides a company-building route alongside the firm’s venture investments. The Hive, its platform team, works with portfolio companies on recruiting, marketing and customer development.
Its connection to Bain Capital brings an industrial and commercial network beyond the startup sector. For a founder selling into established businesses, that network can be relevant to finding early customers, testing a product and entering new markets.
Sources
- Rounds participated in
- 5
- Confirmed lead rounds
- 2 2 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 4 First participation on record · 1 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $1.1B 4 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share
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Rounds
5 in this selectionCorridor
An employee health-benefits brokerage for small and midsize businesses, combining human advisors with AI agents for plan selection and ongoing administration.
$25MSeed
LeadForus
Connects healthcare providers, pharmacies, payers and biopharma through AI-assisted treatment-access workflows.
$150MSeries C
LeadLumilens
Lumilens develops optical interconnects for connecting GPUs in AI data centers.
>$700MSeries C
Role not disclosedSimile
Simulated users for marketing and product research
$200MSeries B
Role not disclosed