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Scott Friend

Investor

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

New York

Writes $100K – $100M checks

About

Scott Friend sold a retail analytics company to Oracle, focuses on commerce and retail tech, makes bold early bets like leading Jet.com's $140M Series A, favors founders with deep conviction.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFuture of WorkSaaS

Experience

  1. Bain Capital VenturesPartnercurrent2006 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area and Boston
  2. Harvard Business SchoolExecutive Fellowcurrent2025 — present
  3. ShopMyBoard Membercurrent2025 — present
  4. FERMÀTBoard Membercurrent2023 — present
  5. ArchiveBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
  6. AttentiveBoard Membercurrent2018 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
  7. WonderInvestorcurrent2020 — presentNew York City Metropolitan Area
  8. MiraklBoard Membercurrent2019 — presentGreater Boston
  9. PersadoBoard Membercurrent2012 — present
  10. soonaBoard Membercurrent2022 — present
  11. Rent The RunwayBoard Observercurrent2009 — present
  12. mParticleBoard Member2016 — 2025New York City Metropolitan Area
  13. 4momsBoard Member2011 — 2024Greater Pittsburgh Region
  14. Flow (Flow Commerce, Inc.)Board Member2017 — 2022
  15. MediaRadar Inc.Board Member2008 — 2017
  16. HookLogic, Inc. (Acquired by Criteo in 2016)Board Member2011 — 2016New York City
  17. Jet.comBoard Member2014 — 2016New York City Metropolitan Area
  18. CQuotientBoard Member2011 — 2014
  19. TapCommerceBoard Member2013 — 2014Greater New York City Area
  20. OracleVice-President, Marketing & Science, Oracle Retail2005 — 2006

Education

  1. Harvard Business SchoolMBA, Business1993 — 1995
  2. Brown UniversityBA, Engineering & Economics1983 — 1987

Skills & more

Entrepreneurship25Start-ups55E-commerce15Business Strategy17Product Management10Venture Capital7Retail4Marketing7Team Building5Mergers & Acquisitions6Sales5B2B4
+7 moreStrategic PartnershipsAnalyticsLeadershipManagementEnterprise SoftwareSaaSInspiring People

From Scott's professional profile.

Same school

Shared employers

Deals · 10

Fermat CommerceBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Jun 2025 · $45.1M raise

Shop My ShelfBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Jan 2025 · $72.9M raise

Ex QuantaBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Jul 2024 · $8.8M raise

mParticleBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Aug 2022 · $6.4M raise

Attentive MobileBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Jun 2021 · $59M raise

Flow CommerceBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Sep 2018 · $18.8M raise

Thorley IndustriesBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Sep 2016 · $15M raise

Semantic MachinesBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Dec 2015 · $12.4M raise

Jet.com, Inc.Board seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Feb 2015 · $119.5M raise

Rent the RunwayBoard seat

via Bain Capital Ventures · filed Jan 2015 · $60M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

Colleagues at Bain Capital Ventures

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Investors connected to Scott in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.