Ajay Agarwal

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures. Seed and Series A investor in AI

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 39 investments📅 23 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
39
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24
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7
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23y
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Mar 2025
Pronto is a Quick-Service App offering on-demand home services, founded in 2025 by Anjali Sardana, delivering trained and trusted household help within 10 minutes. Pronto offers 14+ daily household services including cleaning, laundry, dishwashing and meal prep powered by a fully tech-enabled, hyperlocal network. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, and Glade Brook Capital, Pronto operates across several Indian cities such as Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune, with rapid expansion underway. Pronto’s mission is twofold: For users: timely, dependable household help that simplifies daily life for urban individuals and families For professionals: dignified, stable employment for a historically underserved workforce 📩 Interested in building the future of household services? Send your CV to careers@withpronto.com
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Mar 2025
Our mission is to curb reckless driving and save lives on our roadways.
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Oct 2024
Actively transforms revenue teams from human-led execution to Intelligence-Led Revenue — a new way of running revenue where AI agents do the work humans cannot sustain at scale. Its platform deploys one dedicated agent per account, working 24/7 in the background to research, identify opportunities, and advance next steps without being asked. Founded by former Stanford AI researchers, Actively is backed by top investors, including TCV, First Harmonic, and Bain Capital Ventures. To learn more, visit https://www.actively.ai/.
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Feb 2024
Gather AI is a co-pilot for intralogistics. It combines real-time data from machines and enterprise systems with industry-specific AI to deliver insight when and where its needed. The result is a platform that helps teams move goods efficiently and prevent disruptions without adding complexity.
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Nov 2023
At TerraFirma, we’re redefining how the world moves earth for construction. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, TerraFirma is automating construction to make it faster, cheaper, and safer.
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Sep 2021
AutoLeap is a cloud-based auto repair shop management software, committed to empowering auto shop owners to drive their businesses into the fast lane. Our platform is meticulously designed to modernize every facet of the auto repair shop experience, from workflow management to parts ordering, customer communication, and more. With a strong presence in the auto repair industry, AutoLeap is trusted by a growing community of over 1,000 shops across the United States and Canada. If youre interested in joining our dynamic team, explore career opportunities here: https://autoleap.com/careers/ To witness how AutoLeap can transform your shop and help it thrive, get a free demo at: https://tinyurl.com/yc88t3dk For the latest investment news and financial updates about AutoLeap, visit our Crunchbase profile: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/autoleap.
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Oct 2020
Reprise is the leading comprehensive demo creation platform for enterprise presales, sales, and marketing teams. Reprise allows users to seamlessly build customized sales demos, interactive leave-behinds, complete sandbox environments, and high-performing product tours in a single, powerful platform. With Reprise, enterprise sales and marketing teams shorten sales cycles, lower acquisition costs, increase conversion, and confidently show the value of their products in every interaction. Launched in 2020, Reprise has been recognized for its market leadership by Gartner, Forrester, and G2 and is backed by ICONIQ Growth, Bain Capital Ventures, Accomplice VC, and Glasswing Ventures. Reprise has served millions of demos to date for customers that include Cloudera, Databricks, Pendo, ServiceNow, and Zendesk.
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Sep 2020
Argyle is the payroll connectivity platform for modern financial services. We provide fast, cost-effective, consumer-permissioned access to the most trusted network for real-time income and employment data. With Argyle, businesses automate verifications and background checks, fund accounts, switch direct deposits, calculate premiums, advance wages, and build more exceptional experiences for their customers. Founded in 2018, Argyle’s coverage of U.S. consumers is superior to the three largest credit bureaus and delivers hit rates 4 to 5x higher than all other data providers at a fraction of the cost.
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May 2020
Clockwise is an AI-powered calendar assistant that builds smarter schedules for everyone by coordinating the way individuals, teams, and companies prefer to work. Clockwise is a new way of working. It’s driven by smart technology and inspired by a simple idea—that the best way to work together is for our schedules to do the same. Consider it a workday that allows us to actually work during the day, simply by making time each day for us to focus. Clockwise’s mission is to help people make time for what matters, and weve done so by creating 6 million hours of time for focused work. Today, over 40,000 organizations, including Atlassian, Asana, Reddit, and Zoom, run on Clockwise.
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Oct 2019
Airbase is the only procure-to-pay solution to combine enterprise-grade power with a delightful user experience. It radically simplifies purchasing. Tackle complex workflows and enjoy effortless company-wide adoption with easy-to-use and flexible intake, AP automation, expenses, and corporate cards. Stop uncontrolled spend, save time and money, and get a faster close.
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Nov 2018
Ike was acquired by Nuro in 2021.
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Nov 2018
Vention empowers small to large manufacturers to design, program, order, and deploy automated equipment in a one-stop-shop Manufacturing Automation Platform. Vention is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with an additional office in Berlin, Germany. Our technology powers over 18,000 machines across 4,000 factories in 25 industries.
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Sep 2017
The everything app for hourly teams with scheduling, time clocks, payroll, messaging, and HR—built for small businesses. Unstoppable teams start here. Best Time Clock 2023 - The Motley Fool Best Scheduling 2023 - Investopedia Americas Best Startup Employers 2024 - Forbes Brands That Matter Winner 2024 - Fast Company Best HR & Employee App 2023, 2024, & 2025 - The Webby Awards Best employee communication tool ever! - Theresa Fouquette, Owner, Bliss Small Batch Creamery
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May 2017
Founded in 2014, ShipBob offers best-in-class supply chain and fulfillment capabilities for thousands of brands. ShipBob has an international fulfillment network across the US, Canada, UK, EU, and Australia. ShipBobs proprietary technology combines order and inventory management, warehouse management, predictive data and analytics, as well as optimized shipping for ecommerce companies.
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Oct 2016
FourKites is the global leader in AI-driven supply chain transformation technologies, helping the worlds biggest brands and businesses turn data into action like never before. FourKites Intelligent Control Tower breaks down enterprise silos by creating a real-time digital twin of orders, shipments, inventory and assets. Combined with AI-powered digital workers, this first-of-its-kind technology enables companies to prevent disruptions, automate routine tasks, and optimize performance across their supply chain. FourKites processes over 3.2 million supply chain events daily — from purchase orders to final delivery — helping 1,600+ global brands prevent disruptions, make faster decisions and move from reactive tracking to proactive supply chain orchestration.
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2025
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Mar 2025
Pronto is a Quick-Service App offering on-demand home services, founded in 2025 by Anjali Sardana, delivering trained and trusted household help within 10 minutes. Pronto offers 14+ daily household services including cleaning, laundry, dishwashing and meal prep powered by a fully tech-enabled, hyperlocal network. Backed by Bain Capital Ventures, General Catalyst, and Glade Brook Capital, Pronto operates across several Indian cities such as Delhi NCR, Bangalore, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, and Pune, with rapid expansion underway. Pronto’s mission is twofold: For users: timely, dependable household help that simplifies daily life for urban individuals and families For professionals: dignified, stable employment for a historically underserved workforce 📩 Interested in building the future of household services? Send your CV to careers@withpronto.com
Board Member
Mar 2025
Our mission is to curb reckless driving and save lives on our roadways.
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
Actively transforms revenue teams from human-led execution to Intelligence-Led Revenue — a new way of running revenue where AI agents do the work humans cannot sustain at scale. Its platform deploys one dedicated agent per account, working 24/7 in the background to research, identify opportunities, and advance next steps without being asked. Founded by former Stanford AI researchers, Actively is backed by top investors, including TCV, First Harmonic, and Bain Capital Ventures. To learn more, visit https://www.actively.ai/.
Board Member
Feb 2024
Gather AI is a co-pilot for intralogistics. It combines real-time data from machines and enterprise systems with industry-specific AI to deliver insight when and where its needed. The result is a platform that helps teams move goods efficiently and prevent disruptions without adding complexity.
2023
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Nov 2023
At TerraFirma, we’re redefining how the world moves earth for construction. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, TerraFirma is automating construction to make it faster, cheaper, and safer.
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