Battery Ventures Monthly Digest: January 2024

We’re now well into January, but the Battery team is still riding high after a fantastic December! From Partner Zak Ewen ’s private markets outlook panel at the London Stock Exchange to our Data on the Rocks cocktail reception at AWS re:Invent with our friends at Foundation Capital and Zero Prime Ventures (and over 150 founders, CEOs and executives from across the cloud-computing industry), we closed out 2023 with a bang.

Catch up on some of our December highlights below.

We published a recap of our activities in 2023 — Battery’s fortieth year! — to our social media channels before the holidays. Many thanks to all our valued portfolio companies, partners, team members and friends of the firm for their continued support and friendship over the years. We look forward to many more shared successes this year and beyond!

For the Forbes CIO newsletter, Operating Partner Max Schireson offered his predictions on how generative AI will accelerate in the coming months and what software companies should prioritize in implementing the technology.

Product-led growth (PLG) can be a game-changer for a startup’s go-to-market strategy, but it’s not the right fit for every company. General Partner Neeraj Agrawal and Vice President Sudhee Chilappagari , in their latest post for the Battery blog, dive into the questions every early-stage founder should ask themselves before pursuing PLG.

Generative AI became a household name in 2023, reminiscent of previous tech waves like the PC boom in the 80s and 90s, the rise of mobile apps after the iPhone launch and, more recently, the cloud-computing revolution. General Partner Dharmesh Thakker offered his perspective on where we go from here in a new post for our Condensing the Cloud Substack.

Battery portfolio companies are hiring for remote and in-person positions, including sales, engineering, HR, marketing and more.

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