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How Bain Capital Uses Interconnected Data to Speed Up Time-to-Insight
The Challenge:
Fragmented tools slowed down sourcing research
Use Cases:
Ownership and deal history checks
Conference targeting
The Results:
Saved 2-3 hours a week on manual research
Founded in 1984, Bain Capital is one of the world's leading private investment firms, operating from 24 offices worldwide with $225 billion in assets under management. They partner with great companies, from start-ups and founder-led businesses to turnarounds and carve-outs, helping them expand into new markets, grow productivity, and strengthen operations across industries including consumer, industrials, financial and business services, technology, healthcare, and more. This case study is how Gain supports Bain Capital's Private Equity Sourcing Team in Boston, USA.
Piecing Together a Fragmented Sourcing Process
For the sourcing team at Bain Capital, building out landscapes, tracking ownership, and identifying which companies were worth a conversation meant working across a patchwork of separate tools. The data itself was available, but nothing was connected, so answering a simple question meant moving between platforms and manually stitching the picture together, turning otherwise quick research into a time-consuming exercise.
The Solution:
One Interconnected Platform for Intelligence
Bain Capital was looking for a platform that could bring high-quality intelligence together in one interconnected place. After trialling Gain, the team chose it as their go-to intelligence platform not only because of the quality of the information and insights, but the overall user experience which made it easy for them to find the information they need, ultimately creating efficiency in their sourcing processes.
Use Cases:
Powering Sourcing from First Look to First Meeting
Mapping the full universe of players within a sub-vertical to quickly narrow in on names worth pursuing
Checking ownership structures, deal history, and advisors before reaching out to a target
Answering market landscape questions same-day, without relying on the research team
Building conference target lists based on which attendees actually fit target criteria, rather than gut feel
The results:
Time Savings, Redirected to Higher-Value Work
Since implementing Gain, the sourcing team at Bain Capital has saved several hours a week that were previously lost to tedious manual research.
With everything available in one interconnected profile, the team at Bain Capital has been able to significantly reduce their time to insight. Getting a first read on a company now takes minutes rather than a half hour of moving between platforms. This has enabled them to reduce the overall volume of basic landscape requests going to the research team and spend more time on value added work.
That time savings has translated directly into more time spent on the parts of the job that matter most, including outreach, relationship building, and deeper first-look work on companies that clear the initial screen.
