Bain Capital was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts with additional offices across the United States, Asia, and Europe. Bain Capital, LLC is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing 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.