capital private equity founded 1983 founders rick frisbie howard anderson bob barrett headquarters boston massachusetts united states products venture capital private equity total assets 5.6 billion number of employees 60 website www.battery.com battery ventures is a global technology focused investment firm . founded in 1983 the firm makes venture capital and private equity investments from offices in boston silicon valley san francisco and israel . since inception the firm has raised over 5.6 billion 1 and is now investing its eleventh funds battery ventures xi and battery ventures xi side fund with a combined capitalization of 950 million . 2 contents 1 the firm 2 history 3 investments 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links the firm edit battery s global venture capital practice spans technology sectors and investment stages ranging from seed to growth . the team focuses on potentially cutting edge category defining businesses in markets including application software it infrastructure and consumer internet mobile . 3 battery s private equity practice focuses on helping technology companies in the u.s. europe israel and elsewhere grow organically and through acquisitions . working primarily with businesses in the software information technology and industrial technology sectors the investment team is experienced with sophisticated deal structures such as leveraged buyouts pipes divestitures rollups and take privates as well as debt arrangements and secondary transactions . 4 history edit battery ventures was founded in 1983 in boston massachusetts by rick frisbie 5 howard anderson 6 and bob barrett . since inception battery has raised more than 5.6 billion dollars in capital through the following eleven funds and corresponding side funds fund vintage year committed capital m battery i 1984 34 battery ii 1988 42 battery iii 1994 85 battery iv 1997 200 battery v 1999 444 battery vi 2000 850 battery vii 2005 450 battery viii 2007 750 battery viii sf 2008 200 battery ix 2010 750 battery x 2013 650 battery x sf 2013 250 battery xi 2016 650 battery xi sf 2016 300 in 1995 the firm opened its second office in menlo park california followed by the opening of its israel office in 2009 and the addition of its san francisco office in 2015 . current investing general partners include neeraj agrawal 7 michael brown 8 jesse feldman 9 russell fleischer 10 roger lee 11 itzik parnafes 12 chelsea stoner 13 dharmesh thakker 14 and scott tobin . 15 investments edit in its 33 year history battery has invested in more than 400 companies globally resulting in more than 60 ipos and more than 170 m & a events by acquirers including adobe apple bmc boeing comcast danaher emc google intel linkedin metropcs oracle palo alto networks worldhotels resmed roper salesforce scott safety sap visa and yahoo . the firm s current investment focus includes o application software including data enabled business software ; marketing technology ; financial technologies ; vertical business software ; and tech enabled business services . o it infrastructure technologies spanning compute ; storage ; networking ; infrastructure management ; and enterprise security . o consumer internet mobile o industrial technologies including analytical instrumentation ; test and measurement ; process control and automation ; and specialty industrial services . visit http www.battery.com our companies for a full list of all portfolio companies in which the battery funds have invested . references edit about battery ventures . www.battery.com . battery ventures closes two new funds totaling 950 million . marketwired . february 23 2016 . about battery ventures . www.battery.com . battery ventures private equity practice . www.battery.com . battery ventures team rick frisbie . www.battery.com . a pioneer in consulting is leaving yankee group . the new york times . november 8 1999 . battery ventures team neeraj agrawal . www.battery.com . battery ventures team michael brown . www.battery.com . battery ventures team jesse feldman . www.battery.com . battery ventures team russell fleischer . www.battery.com . battery ventures team roger lee . www.battery.com . battery ventures team itzik parnafes . www.battery.com . battery ventures team chelsea stoner . www.battery.com . battery ventures team dharmesh thakker . www.battery.com . battery ventures team scott tobin . www.battery.com . further reading edit battery ventures jump starts avalara with 20 million in capital . all things digital june 27 2012 three battery partners make forbes midas list . forbes april 6 2011 venture capitalists ride boom in technology ipos . bloomberg june 25 2011 anatomy of a battery ventures deal . wall street journal january 12 2010 drama and pragmatism drive fight over a hiring . new york times december 24 2001 venture capitalists see investors grow mutinous . new york times april 14 2002 external links edit battery ventures company website v t e private equity and venture capital investment firms investment strategy venture growth mezzanine secondaries leveraged buyout history history of private equity and venture capital early history of private equity private equity in the 1980s private equity in the 1990s private equity in the 2000s investors angel investor corporate venture capital commercial bank crowdfunding institutional investor insurance company investment bank endowment family office fund of funds high net worth individual merchant bank pension fund sovereign wealth fund private equity firms venture capital firms portfolio companies retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title battery ventures & oldid 743301114 categories companies based in bostoncompanies established in 1983venture capital firms of the united states1983 establishments in massachusetts navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 01 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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