- Bain’s PE clients and their portfolio companies have priority access to the collaboration between Bain and the Deployment Company.
middle east: Bain & Company today announced an investment in Deployment Company, a new venture launched by OpenAI with 19 global partners. OpenAI Deployment Company was founded to help companies deploy AI across their most critical operations. This investment expands Bain’s partnership with OpenAI to more than three years of joint client work.
Bain and OpenAI Deployment Company partner with private equity firms on their portfolio companies. In this area, Bain is the global market leader in consulting. Together, they bring OpenAI’s frontier AI technology and Bain’s capabilities in AI adoption, enterprise transformation, and industry strategy.
“Creating value in today’s portfolio companies requires both strategic insight, real technical capabilities, and change management,” said Rebecca Black, head of Bain’s global private equity practice. “Bringing AI and construction capabilities, OpenAI Deployment Company brings cutting-edge OpenAI technology. Together, we can unlock more value within our companies and across our portfolios and return even more to our investors.”
For portfolio companies, the collaboration will focus on growing sales through faster product development and improving customer experience, as well as improving profitability through intelligent automation, cost reduction and supply chain optimization.
Bain is also working with OpenAI to bring advanced AI capabilities across its market-leading diligence practice to help PE clients drive value throughout the deal cycle, from initial opportunity evaluation to close.
“We are already seeing the power of our partnership with OpenAI in driving innovation and enabling the companies we work with to realize the full potential of AI,” said Chuck Witten, Global Head of Digital Practices and Capabilities at Bain. We help our clients create tangible results by incorporating the capabilities and ways of working needed to sustain change at scale. Companies that adopt AI the fastest will be the most effective at separating themselves from their competitors, and we will strive to ensure that our clients join them.”
The investment in OpenAI Deployment Company builds on Bain and OpenAI’s partnership, which was first announced as a global services alliance in 2023 and expanded the partnership in October 2024.
“Bain is a key partner across our ecosystem, and we are excited to work with Bain to see their investment accelerate both the speed and effectiveness of AI adoption for enterprise and PE clients,” said Brad Lightcap of OpenAI.
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