Battery Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Boston, United States

Total investments

862

Average round size

29M

Portfolio companies

433

Rounds per year

21.02

Lead investments

234

Follow on index

0.49

Exits

173

Stages of investment
SeedPrivate EquityEarly Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
E-CommerceInternetSoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileArtificial IntelligenceSaaSEnterprise SoftwareBig Data

Summary

In 1983 was created Battery Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Boston.

This organization was formed by Rick Frisbie. We also calculated 13 valuable employees in our database.

Comparing to the other companies, this Battery Ventures performs on 8 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 18 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2019. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2012. When the investment is from Battery Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Groupon, Coinbase, Marketo. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Enterprise Software, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Battery Ventures, startups are often financed by Kleiner Perkins, Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), Intel Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Wing Venture Capital, Tiger Global Management, TCV. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Silicon Valley Bank, Scale Venture Partners, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity.

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Investor highlights

Industry focus
Cloud/InfrastructureConsumer/RetailManufacturingBiotech/Life Sciences
Stage focus
Generalist
Geo focus
Generalist
Check size
100K — 50M

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Investments analytics

Last fund

Fund size
USD 3300000000
Fund raised date
2022-05-14

Analytics

Total investments
862
Lead investments
234
Exits
173
Rounds per year
21.02
Follow on index
0.49
Investments by industry
  • Software (335)
  • Enterprise Software (203)
  • SaaS (194)
  • Analytics (145)
  • Information Technology (136)
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Investments by region
  • United States (710)
  • Israel (56)
  • United Kingdom (28)
  • Belgium (6)
  • Germany (15)
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Peak activity year
2021
Number of Unicorns
45
Number of Decacorns
46
Number of Minotaurs
13

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
13
Avg. valuation at time of investment
522M
Group Appearance index
0.89
Avg. company exit year
8
Avg. multiplicator
4.83
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
Lindy 05 Jan 2023 Early Stage Venture 35M United States, California, San Francisco
Vita Mojo 30 Jun 2022 Internet, Information Technology, Information Services, Food and Beverage, Restaurants Early Stage Venture 30M England, London, United Kingdom

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