The founder-investor relationship is important to get right — so, consider the Road Trip Test before you partner with an investor. 🚗 🛣 Our General Partner Chelsea Stoner joined Heidi Jannenga, PT, DPT, ATC of WebPT for an Inc. Magazine webinar on the benefits of growth capital for bootstrapped founders and key considerations for starting the process to secure outside investment. Per Chelsea, bootstrapped founders should first ask themselves whether they can envision getting into a car with a prospective investor for a drive from Seattle to Miami: a heuristic to determine whether a relationship has what it takes to navigate the ups and downs of company-building.
Battery Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Boston, MA 67,515 followers
Global investment firm with forty-one years of quiet expertise that speaks volumes.
About us
Battery invests in potentially cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including application software, IT infrastructure technologies, consumer-internet and mobile services, and industrial technologies. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to growth and private equity, and invests globally from offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, New York, London and Israel. Follow the firm on Twitter @BatteryVentures and on our Powered by Battery site for entrepreneurs, www.battery.com/powered. For a full list of our portfolio companies, visit www.battery.com/our-companies/list/.
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 51-200 employees
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- Boston, MA
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- Privately Held
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- 1983
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- Consumer Internet/Mobile, Application Software, Technology-Enabled Services, IT Infrastructure, and Industrial Technologies
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Our industrial tech and life-science tools team is feeling optimistic heading into the second half of the year, from opportunities in environmental sciences, automation in manufacturing and production and beyond, as our General Partner Jesse Feldman shared with Craig McGlashan for a feature in PE Hub Europe. Per Jesse, "The risk/reward curve is starting to get to a place where there's more overlap and that will lead to more activity. It's going to depend on two main variables. One - are companies performing, meaning are they hitting budgets predictably and reliably? We think that will be an increasing trend. The other variable is going to be these macro uncertainties, whether that's election cycles, whether that's geopolitical contests, whether that's new regulation and trends. That view is becoming a little more clear and that leads to more positive dynamics for deal activity." Check out the full article here for more insight: https://lnkd.in/e33fxJQf
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Congratulations to our friends at ZeroTier, Inc. on a $13.5M Series A round! 🚀 We're so excited to lead the round and continue partnering with Andrew Gault, Adam Ierymenko and the team in this exciting new phase. Read more in TechCrunch on today's news from Mike Butcher ✍️ here: https://lnkd.in/ee4GCVRG
ZeroTier raises $13.5M to help avert CrowdStrike-like network problems | TechCrunch
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When it comes to unifying a team, “shared purpose binds more than shared enjoyment. People long to be part of something greater than themselves,” according to our Partner Marcus Ryu, former CEO and co-founder of Guidewire Software. Watch “The Startup as Insurgent,” a call to arms for fellow technology founders, here: https://lnkd.in/geTKF9Bn
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Calling all European and Israeli companies! 🌎 Planning to ‘hop the pond’ to enter the lucrative U.S. market? We’ve got the playbook you need to get started. Check out our comprehensive guide below ⬇️ and read more on the Battery blog here: https://lnkd.in/gYZVUat2
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Consumer innovation was the main course at the intimate dinner we hosted last week in San Francisco for executives of scaled consumer companies! 💙 Attendees enjoyed an evening of great conversation, tips for best practices and networking, organized by Roger Lee, Courtney Z. Chow and Isabel von Stauffenberg, in collaboration with our friends at GP Bullhound.
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What has (at least) four wheels and no driver? 🚚 Our portfolio company Kodiak Robotics’ autonomous trucks, which just completed the first driverless commercial semi-truck freight delivery in North America. Read more about how Kodiak is transforming industrial logistics in Axios here: https://lnkd.in/dbx5keAt
Welcome to a new era of autonomy: Kodiak has made its first driverless delivery! We've completed the first-ever driverless semi-truck delivery in North America with Atlas Energy Solutions! This isn't just a milestone; it's the Kodiak Driver graduating from R&D and moving to real-world deployment. Autonomous trucking's future is here, unlocking safety and efficiency for customers.
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Congratulations Level AI on a $39M Series C! 🚀 🎇 We are thrilled to continue partnering with Founder and CEO Ashish Nagar and the Level AI team to bring the power of advanced AI to the contact center and help businesses build better customer relationships. As Ashish shared with TechCrunch's Kyle Wiggers, "Frontline workers, like customer service workers, are the biggest human capital in the world. So, my idea was to use ambient computing — AI that you can just talk to and it listens in the background — to augment human work. Level AI’s software enables brands to get insights on the pulse of the customer, quality of the service being delivered and action plans to improve service performance." Check out the full story here to learn more: https://lnkd.in/gyyUxz7w
We're thrilled to announce that Level AI has secured $39.4 million in Series C funding, bringing our total funding to $73.1 million. This milestone wouldn't be possible without the trust and support of our incredible customers who've been with us on this journey. To our partners in transforming customer experience: your belief in our vision has been instrumental. As U.S. businesses collectively lose $1.6 trillion annually due to poor customer service, your commitment to excellence is more crucial than ever. This investment, led by Adams Street Partners, will fuel our growth, innovation, and talent acquisition. We're excited to advance our product development, engineering, and R&D efforts to better serve you and meet the evolving demands of the market. As we look to the future, we're optimistic about the potential of AI, particularly generative AI and contact center-specific LLMs, to revolutionize customer interactions. Together, we'll continue to harness the power of unstructured conversational data to drive meaningful insights and automate critical processes. Thank you for your continued trust. We're eager to embark on this next chapter of growth and innovation with you, ensuring every customer interaction is productive and positive. Here's to building better customer relationships and driving excellence in customer service! You can read more about Level AI and our future plans at our blog linked in the first comment below. #SeriesC #CustomerExperience #AI #Innovation
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Enterprises across industries have used AI for years, but the recent explosion of applications has many wondering about potential risk. But could the greatest risk be doing nothing at all? Florian Douetteau, CEO of our portfolio company Dataiku, shared his perspective with our Marketing Partner Rebecca Buckman. Per Florian, in order to be successful with AI, companies must be in control of the process: meaning understanding the data they’re using and how it’s being used. Watch the full clip now to hear more:
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From investment opportunities in climate tech, weather tech, space tech and beyond, "software is infinite," according to our Partner Marcus Ryu. 🌍 🚀 Check out the full recording of Marcus's panel at Fortune Brainstorm Tech 2024 here for more insight: https://lnkd.in/gTb4pCZr
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