For the past 19 years, Ben Nye sought out promising infrastructure software as co-managing partner of Bain Capital Ventures. Now he and a group of four partners, collected from his time at Bain and as CEO of Turbonomic, are doing the same thing but out on their own with Venture Guides.
Nye said the firm’s name was a nod to his fly-fishing days after college when he would be a guide for people salmon fishing in Alaska.
“The reason that you hire a guide is you get a better experience and more yield,” he told TechCrunch. “We’re not going to give you a fish, but we will teach you, show you and help you, and that’s the idea.”
The team comes with quite a successful track record: Nye’s team’s early-stage track record returned 7.9 times to BCV investors, while eight of 21 investments reached unicorn status, including Turbonomic, which the team led to a Read Entire Article
