Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a technology-focused venture capital firm founded in 1983 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, with additional offices in Silicon Valley and Israel. The firm specializes in investing in innovative and potentially transformative businesses across various sectors, including application software, IT infrastructure, consumer internet and mobile services, industrial technologies, and life science tools. As a Registered Investment Adviser, Battery Ventures aims to support companies that are defining new categories and driving advancements in their respective markets.

Neeraj Agrawal

General Partner

Roland Anderson

Principal

Alex Benik

Partner

Dallin Bills

Principal

Bill Binch

Operating Partner

Karen Bommart

Partner & Head, Investor Relations

Michael Brown

General Partner

Rebecca Buckman

Marketing Partner

Courtney Chow

Investment Team

George Christopher

Investment Team

Danel Dayan

Principal

Chiraag Deora

Vice President

John Dinneen

Director, Finance and Estate Planning

Morad Elhafed

General Partner

Nathan Ellis

Associate

Paz Eshel

Vice President

Zak Ewen

Partner

Zakary Ewen

Partner

Jesse Feldman

General Partner

Russell Fleischer

General Partner

Duncan Gills

Principal

Brandon Gleklen

Principal

Chris Hanson

Chief Operating Partner

Satoshi Harris-Koizumi

Partner

Nikki Hassan

Investor

Antonia Heiss

Investment Team

Grace Hermes

Investor

Michael Hoeksema

Investor

Maximilian Jessen

Investor

Becca Jones

Investment Team

Dillon Joyce

Principal

Max-Julian Kaye

Principal

Kelly Kinnard

VP of Talent

Megan Larmann

Investor

Kenneth P. Lawler

General Partner

Roger Lee

General Partner

Brian Lieber

Partner

Lior Mallul

Investor

Jack Mattei

Investor

Jack McGuinness

Investor

Jason Mendel

Investor

Paul Morrissey

Principal

Aaron Neil

Investment Team

Viraj Parmar

Associate

Matt Penney

Partner

Adam Piasecki

Investor

Aaron Rinberg

Vice President

Justin Rosner

Principal

Collier Searle

Principal

Shiran Shalev

Partner

Juliette Silvain

Investor

Scott B. Simpson

Associate

Zack Smotherman

General Partner

Isabel von Stauffenberg

Investor

Chelsea Stoner

General Partner

Dave Tabors

Private Equity Partner

David Tabors

Private Equity Partner

Gavin Tasker

Investment Team

Dharmesh Thakker

General Partner

Lauren Wedell

vice_president

Jordan Welu

Partner

Enzo Wiener

Associate, Investments

Dawit Workie

Investment Team

Past deals in North Carolina

Obie

Series B in 2023
Obie is a software platform developed by Creisoft, Inc. that connects commercial real estate brokers and investors, streamlining the transaction process within the industry. The platform offers a range of features, including the ability for brokers to create marketing materials, list properties on a public or private marketplace, and manage financial documents and analytics in real time. Investors benefit from access to property teasers and instant delivery of offering memorandums upon signing an electronic confidentiality agreement. Additionally, Obie includes tools for underwriting properties, supported by integrated financial modeling capabilities. The platform serves various asset classes, including office, industrial, retail, and multifamily properties. Founded in 2012 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Creisoft, Inc. utilizes advanced encryption and operates on certified secure servers to ensure data protection.

Kustomer

Venture Round in 2023
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Obie

Series A in 2021
Obie is a software platform developed by Creisoft, Inc. that connects commercial real estate brokers and investors, streamlining the transaction process within the industry. The platform offers a range of features, including the ability for brokers to create marketing materials, list properties on a public or private marketplace, and manage financial documents and analytics in real time. Investors benefit from access to property teasers and instant delivery of offering memorandums upon signing an electronic confidentiality agreement. Additionally, Obie includes tools for underwriting properties, supported by integrated financial modeling capabilities. The platform serves various asset classes, including office, industrial, retail, and multifamily properties. Founded in 2012 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Creisoft, Inc. utilizes advanced encryption and operates on certified secure servers to ensure data protection.

Kustomer

Series E in 2019
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Pendo

Series E in 2019
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

ResourceWise

Acquisition in 2019
Forest2Market provides market price data, supply chain expertise and other decision support services to participants in the forest, wood products and bioenergy industries. Forest2Market is the leading source of information and analytics for forest product and biomass resource procurement, feedstock price indexes, chain of custody documentation, and other supply chain management issues.

Kustomer

Series D in 2019
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Kustomer

Series C in 2019
Kustomer, Inc. is a customer service software company that specializes in customer relationship management (CRM). Founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York City, Kustomer offers an omnichannel platform that consolidates data from various sources, enabling businesses to manage customer inquiries efficiently. The software provides a unified view of customers' buying history and previous interactions, allowing service agents to address issues such as refund requests or recurring questions with greater context. Kustomer's platform is utilized by prominent brands, enhancing their customer service capabilities by delivering seamless support experiences. The company also has an office in Durham, North Carolina.

Pendo

Series D in 2018
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Pendo

Series C in 2017
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Pendo

Series B in 2016
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Pendo

Series A in 2015
Pendo is the only platform to combine in-product engagement with robust product data and user feedback. With the ability to quickly take action on these qualitative and quantitative insights, product teams can make more informed decisions on how to support users throughout their journey.

Cohesity

Series B in 2015
Cohesity, Inc. specializes in hyper-converged secondary storage solutions designed to consolidate, protect, and share non-mission-critical data for large organizations. Its primary offering, DataPlatform, serves as a web-scale platform that integrates secondary data and workflows while removing storage silos. The company's product suite includes DataProtect for data protection infrastructure, which encompasses backup, replication, disaster recovery, and cloud tiering. Additionally, Cohesity Orion 5.0 combines data protection with big data storage on a distributed architecture. The firm also offers Cohesity Helios, a SaaS-based management solution that facilitates oversight and management of secondary data and applications. Cohesity's solutions cater to various needs, including backup and recovery, long-term retention, scale-out storage, and support for diverse environments such as virtual, cloud, physical, databases, and applications. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with a presence in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cohesity operates across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, serving a growing clientele that includes many Global 1000 companies.

Bright View Technologies

Series B in 2008
Bright View Technologies, Inc. is a leading developer of microstructure-based, optical films for the global display industry. They are leveraging patented and proprietary technologies that enable the production of unique optical film products with superior performance characteristics for Plasma, LCD, Rear Projection, Front Projection and OLED.