Merritt Hummer

Merritt Hummer serves as a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she directs growth-stage capital investments across the broader technology sector. Within her current role at the venture capital firm, she primarily partners with founders who are developing scalable business-to-business software-as-a-service application platforms. Her specific investment strategy targets horizontal application software companies that actively utilize product-led growth models to rapidly scale their commercial operations. Prior to advancing into her current venture capital partnership position, she completed her undergraduate academic studies by earning a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University. She subsequently furthered her formal business training by obtaining a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School. Hummer currently leverages her engineering background and institutional financial expertise to identify and support emerging enterprise software leaders navigating the critical growth stage of development.