Ajay Agarwal

Partner, Bain Capital Ventures

Ajay Agarwal is a managing director at Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage SaaS investing.

Ajay Agarwal

SaaS entrepreneurs are bombarded with blog posts with an array of metrics and variables on which they need to focus in order to build their companies. There are so many…

To be a top quartile SaaS grower, you need to focus on gross churn

Marketing technology has become big business over the last five years, securing $134 billion in venture funding and spawning more than 2,000 new companies. New channels, new data streams and…

Marketing Tech’s Bumpy Road: Consolidation, Growth And A New Frontier

It’s a new environment for startups in 2016. Financing will get harder. Valuation inflation will dissipate. Profitability will be in vogue again. And old-fashioned business fundamentals will balance out the…

Managing Your Startup In 2016: New Rules For A New Environment

Enterprise software is about to undergo radical transformation — a substantial change that will make the shift to software as a service (SaaS) look like a simple facelift. This transformation…

The Next Wave Of Enterprise Software Powered By Machine Learning

Marketing is no longer the forgotten stepchild of enterprise software. Traditionally underserved and under-penetrated, marketing is finally receiving its fair share of attention by technologists, founders and investors alike. Gartner…

There’s A $10 Billion Opportunity As Marketing Hits The Big Time

It may surprise many of you to learn that Dell Computer was the highest appreciating tech stock of the 90s. This success was grounded not in marketing or product, but…

The Key To Successful Commerce Businesses Is Supply Chain