Bain Capital, LLC is a principal investment firm specializing in private equity, venture capital, public equity, and leveraged debt assets. The firm seeks to invest in seed, start up, early to late stage, growth capital, emerging growth, corporate divestitures, spin offs, management buyouts, industry consolidations, and family/founder situations. It focuses its investments in information technology, including information data, software, hardware, and Internet; communications, including telecommunications, broadcasting, and media; healthcare, including devices and equipment, distribution and information, providers, and other medical products; industrial and manufacturing including, automotive, steel and non-ferrous metals, industrial equipment, engineered components, and business services. The firm also seeks to invest in retail and consumer products including, traditional retailers, on-line merchandising, consumer products, food and restaurants, and consumer services and finance including banking, credit cards, insurance, mortgage, brokerage, exchanges, transaction processing infrastructure and software, and information. Additionally, Bain Capital manages hedge funds and invests in fixed income, equity, commodity, and high yield debt obligation public markets. Bain Capital was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with offices in New York City; London; and Munich, Germany.