BOSTON—September 28, 2023—Bain & Company, the leading consulting advisor to the private equity (PE) industry and its stakeholders, today announced a partnership with Shelton AI, a pioneering data sciences and artificial intelligence (AI) company at the forefront of spearheading financial breakthroughs for the world’s most prominent asset owners.    

The partnership will illuminate the ever-expanding realm of AI’s potential business applications and use cases, specifically in private equity. It will enable investors to optimize investment strategies and asset allocation through unmatched private markets data and analytics.

Together, Bain and Shelton AI will develop cutting-edge solutions to solve the biggest investor pain points in transparency, capital pacing, risk management, portfolio construction, cash management, and much more, by rapidly ingesting data and analyzing LP fund and co-investment portfolios. This allows the ability to identify detailed exposures by general partners (GPs), industry subsectors, company size, geography, asset class and strategy, at the company level across the full portfolio – ultimately pioneering innovation and furthering sophistication for asset owners.

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About Bain & Company’s Private Equity Business

Bain & Company is the leading consulting partner to the private equity (PE) industry and its stakeholders. Private equity consulting at Bain & Company has grown thirteen-fold over the past two decades and now represents about one-quarter of the firm’s global business. Bain & Company maintains a global network of more than 2,000 experienced professionals serving PE clients. The firm’s practice is more than triple the size of the next-largest consulting firm serving PE firms.

Bain & Company’s work with PE firms spans fund types – buyout, infrastructure, real estate and debt, as well as hedge funds – and many of the most prominent institutional investors, such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, endowments and family investment offices. Bain & Company supports its clients across a broad range of objectives that include deal generation, due diligence, immediate post-acquisition, ongoing value addition, exit, firm strategy and operations, and institutional investor strategy.

About Bain & Company

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