Battery Ventures

What’s next for enterprise tech in 2025? Vice President Jason Mendel shared his predictions on enterprise tech budgets, startup funding and more with TechCrunch's Rebecca Szkutak. Read more in TechCrunch here:  https://tcrn.ch/4a3qQjB

Whether it’s simplifying work or helping to keep focused, these gadgets and apps are everyday essentials. See what made the list! 📱🎶 Featured: Yash Sheth - Co-Founder, Galileo 🔭 Bob van Luijt - CEO, Weaviate Aparna Dhinakaran - Founder/CPO, Arize AI Felix Van de Maele - CEO, Collibra Be sure to check out our 2024 State of the OpenCloud report here: https://lnkd.in/gTeZVYtk

That one lightbulb moment can change everything! 💡 Hear Mike Palmer, Felix Van de Maele and Prasanna Ganesan share “a-ha” moments from their careers so far. Be sure to check out our 2024 State of the OpenCloud report here: https://lnkd.in/gTeZVYtk

What's on the horizon for 2025? 🔮 Our General Partner Dharmesh Thakker shared his predictions with Tanya Dua for the LinkedIn News Tech Stack newsletter! Per Dharmesh, "We will see the worlds of software and hardware merge as silicon and software come together to accelerate the AI cycle. We could also see one of the cloud giants buy Intel to design their own chips, while Nvidia launches their own cloud or software offering or buys one of the smaller ones.” Check out the full article with predictions from Dharmesh; Praveen Akkiraju of Insight Partners; Navin Chaddha of Mayfield Fund; Jenny Fielding of Everywhere Ventures; Cathy Gao of Sapphire Ventures; Mo Jomaa of CapitalG; Rebecca Lynn of Canvas Ventures; and Megan Reynolds of Vertex Ventures US below! ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/g4KEQ4kT

What a great night in Tel Aviv! This week, Battery Ventures Partner Barak Schoster Goihman joined an incredible panel at the US VC Road Trip, sharing insights alongside Nicole Priel 🇮🇱 (Ibex Investors), Amit Karp (Bessemer Venture Partners), Shay M. (Merlin Ventures) and our fantastic moderator, Noa Topaz. More than 150 founders and attendees packed the room for a vibrant discussion about the global investment climate, G2M strategies for the US and actionable advice for navigating funding rounds. The energy, questions and connections made it a night to remember. A huge thank you to the organizers and everyone who joined us—we’re inspired by the innovative spirit of the Tel Aviv tech community!

Cheers to an incredible 2024! 🥂 🎉 Thank you to our portfolio companies, partners and team members who’ve made this year so fulfilling. We look forward to continuing to build and grow in 2025. 💙

How can companies establish and grow trust with employees? Hear what Jenny Kang and Tamar Elan had to say!

We're deeply saddened to learn of the passing of one of our founders, Robert Barrett. His visionary leadership and unwavering commitment laid the foundation for what Battery Ventures is today. The entire Battery team sends our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and everyone whose lives he touched. https://legcy.co/3OO7XqT

We’re proud to double down on our investment in Databricks today! Congrats to Ali Ghodsi and the entire Databricks team on their funding announcement. 👏

Meet Debbie Liao, an investor relations partner in our San Francisco office who focuses on establishing and building lasting relationships with investors around the world. We chatted with Debbie for our latest #TeamTuesdays, here’s what we learned: 🖊️ You’ve lived and worked in several different cities including San Francisco, Hong Kong, Taipei and Boston - how do you think that enhances your role at Battery? 🔹 Battery has been around 40+ years and we focus on long-term relationships with our global investors. I feel my multinational background helps me to use empathy and cultural sensitivity in getting to know our LPs and building relationships. As a regular traveler, too, I am able to help our team stay abreast of industry trends and continue to learn ways to innovate on our work. 🖊️ What is the most common non-financial question you get about Battery from prospective new investors and how do you respond? 🔹 I often get questions about how we work as one stage-agnostic firm, instead of splitting into venture and buyout. Our core strengths involve sharing expertise across the stage spectrum, having diversity of thought due to people looking at deals from many different angles and being disciplined about risk/return. We act as a single team. 🖊️ You came to the firm with ten years of experience in the private-equity world—in your mind, what sets Battery apart from other firms? 🔹 High integrity, low ego, truly collaborative = our culture. It’s wonderful to come to work at Battery knowing we all want each other to succeed, have intellectually honest debates and also have plenty of fun together – ask me about slinging rubber chickens into stockpots with an analyst, a general partner and our CFO, and I’ll tell you about impromptu, high-functioning teamwork! 🖊️ What do you enjoy the most about working on Battery’s investor-relations team? 🔹 Karen Schiff Bommart, Erika Klein and I are a small and mighty bi-coastal team, constantly upleveling our function, while maintaining and cultivating great relationships around the globe. It’s been so rewarding to hear positive feedback across stakeholders and about the impact of our work on endowments, pensions and charitable missions. 🖊️ Before your career in investor relations, you worked in brand marketing and real estate. What are important skills you learned in those roles that help you today? 🔹 Left brain and right brain, analytical and creative, think short term and long term, pay attention to the details and also keep in mind the big picture. 🖊️ What’s something about you that might surprise our followers? 🔹 I speak Mandarin fluently, a little bit of Japanese and have lived ~40% of my life abroad. I’m glad to be back in San Francisco for the long-term. I enjoy scuba diving (warm water only) and had the best trip to Raja Ampat, Indonesia right before Covid.