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Battery Ventures

Founders Rick Frisbie

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Total investments 853
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$30M
Portfolio companies 430
Rounds per year 20.80
Lead investments 231
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.49
Exits 172
Key employees 13
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Private Equity
Seed

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Analytics
  • Information Technology
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Orkes

$20M21 Feb 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Hyperexponential

Insurance
Software
$73M11 Jan 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Opal

SaaS
Software
$22M07 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Mine

Big Data
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet
Mobile Apps
Network Security
Privacy
Risk Management
Software
$30M04 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Lanes & Planes

SaaS
Software
Travel
$39M16 Oct 2023 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Fulcrum

Blockchain
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Software
Logistics
Manufacturing
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$18M09 Aug 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Wing Cloud

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Developer Tools
Open Source
PaaS
Simulation
Software
Software Engineering
$20M18 Jul 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

System Initiative

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
Software
$3M21 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Obie

Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Insurance
Commercial Real Estate
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning
Messaging
Natural Language Processing
Productivity Tools
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
$25M17 May 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States
News
Matillion raises $150M at a $1.5B valuation for its low-code approach to integrating disparate data sources

– Matillion, a startup that helps companies harness their data, raised $150m in funding.
– The round was led by General Atlantic and joined by Battery Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
– The company has hundreds of enterprise customers, including Western Union, FOX, Sony, Slack, National Grid, Peet’s Coffee and Cisco.
– The startup was founded in Manchester (it now also has a base in Denver), and this makes it one of a handful of tech startups out of the city — others we’ve recently covered include The Hut Group, Peak AI and Fractory — now hitting the big leagues and helping to put it on the innovation map as an urban center to watch.

Level AI lands $13M Series A to build conversational intelligence for customer service

– Level AI, an early-stage startup from a former member of the Alexa product team, wants to help companies process customer service calls faster by understanding the interactions they’re having with customers in real time.
– The company launched publicly, while announcing a $13m Series A led by Battery Ventures, with help from seed investors Eniac and Village Global as well as some unnamed angels. Battery’s Neeraj Agrawal will be joining the startup’s board under the terms of the agreement. The company reports it has now raised $15m.

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Total investments 853
Average round size 30M
Rounds per year 20.80
Peak activity year 2021
Lead investments 231
Follow on index 0.49
Exits 172
Group Appearance index 0.89

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Orkes

$20M21 Feb 2024 Cupertino, California, United States

Hyperexponential

Insurance
Software
$73M11 Jan 2024 London, England, United Kingdom

Opal

SaaS
Software
$22M07 Dec 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Mine

Big Data
Cyber Security
Information Technology
Internet
Mobile Apps
Network Security
Privacy
Risk Management
Software
$30M04 Dec 2023 Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Lanes & Planes

SaaS
Software
Travel
$39M16 Oct 2023 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Fulcrum

Blockchain
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise Software
Logistics
Manufacturing
SaaS
Small and Medium Businesses
Software
$18M09 Aug 2023 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Wing Cloud

Cloud Computing
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud Management
Cloud Security
Developer Tools
Open Source
PaaS
Simulation
Software
Software Engineering
$20M18 Jul 2023 Wilmington, Delaware, United States

System Initiative

Information Technology
IT Infrastructure
Software
$3M21 Jun 2023 San Francisco, California, United States

Obie

Artificial Intelligence
Commercial Insurance
Commercial Real Estate
Knowledge Management
Machine Learning
Messaging
Natural Language Processing
Productivity Tools
Real Estate
Real Estate Investment
$25M17 May 2023 Chicago, Illinois, United States
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