Anish Johri

Anish Johri is a growth-equity technology investor who currently serves as a Vice President at Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, the firm's fund focused on growth-stage software and technology businesses, based in San Francisco. He specializes in horizontal and vertical application software, tech-enabled services, and payments — sectors he has covered throughout his investing career.

Johri spent the formative part of his investing career at FTV Capital, a growth-equity firm focused on enterprise technology and services, financial services, and payments. He joined FTV as an associate in 2017 and was promoted to Vice President in February 2022, working on the firm's enterprise technology and services investment team. During his time at FTV he was involved in a number of the firm's growth-stage software and payments deals before departing to join Bain Capital in 2022.

Before moving into growth-equity investing, Johri built a foundation in investment banking, holding analyst roles at Morgan Stanley and at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he developed the financial and transaction skill set common among growth investors.

He was educated at Middlebury College, where he earned a BA in Economics and Political Science (2011–2015), and also studied economics through the General Course at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Invests in growth-stage technology companies — this is institutional growth equity, not angel/seed check-writing.
• Core sectors: enterprise/application software (horizontal and vertical), tech-enabled services, payments and fintech, and cybersecurity/compliance software.
• At FTV, focus was on "growth-stage enterprise software and payments businesses"; at Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, focus is on horizontal and vertical application software.
• Typical FTV/Bain growth-equity checks run into the tens of millions of dollars per deal (e.g., FTV led Paddle's ~$68M round), reflecting later-stage, revenue-generating targets rather than early-stage bets.
• Targets companies with proven revenue, defensible product, and clear expansion potential — the profile of a growth investor evaluating scalable, category-leading software and payments businesses.