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.

Roland Anderson

Principal

Dallin Bills

Principal

William Binch

Operating Partner

Mackenzie Chapman

Investor

Sudheendra Chilappagari

Investor

Danel Dayan

Principal

Morad Elhafed

General Partner

Zak Ewen

Partner

Zakary Ewen

Principal

Cornel J. Faucher

Partner

Jesse Feldman

General Partner

Russell Fleischer

General Partner

Brandon Gleklen

Principal

Luis-Luca de Haas

Analyst, Investments

Satoshi Harris-Koizumi

Principal

Margaret Hendren

Analyst

Olivia Henkoff

Venture Capital Investor

Dillon Joyce

Principal

Max-Julian Kaye

Principal

Ken Lawler

General Partner

Roger Lee

General Partner

Brian Lieber

Partner

Victoria Mayzlish

Analyst, Investments

Paul Morrissey

Vice President

Mason Parker

Investor

Matt Penney

Partner

Justin Rosner

Principal

Noah Sadhwani

Investor

Chris Schiavo

CFO

Collier Searle

Principal

Tate Searle

Analyst

Shiran Shalev

Partner

Zachary Smotherman

General Partner

Zack Smotherman

Partner and Private Equity Investor

Chelsea Stoner

General Partner

Dave Tabors

Private Equity Partner

Gavin Tasker

Associate, Investments

Scott Tobin

Managing Partner

Chandler Ward

Analyst

Jordan Welu

Principal

Enzo Wiener

Associate, Investments

Peter Winans

Associate

Past deals in Industrial Automation

Level AI

Series B in 2022
Developer of an artificial intelligence platform designed for businesses to automate tedious workflows and improve the customer experience. The company's platform gives front-line workers the speed and intelligence of a supercomputer in a natural, human way, enabling organizations to support every customer interaction for every team member for any given marketing channel.

Viam

Series A in 2022
Viam is a robotics company established in 2020 and based in New York, United States. It operates an open-source platform designed to simplify the development, monitoring, and data management of smart machines. This platform enables users to build smart machines using any hardware and programming language, facilitating configuration, coding, management, and scaling of machine fleets in the cloud. By offering a unified solution, Viam supports developers, startups, and enterprises in rapidly innovating and bringing their products into the physical world, while enhancing their machines with artificial intelligence and data analytics.

Workato

Series E in 2021
Workato, Inc. is a provider of a cloud automation and integration platform designed to streamline workflow automation across various applications for enterprises. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Workato enables business and IT teams to create and implement integrations and automate complex workflows efficiently. The platform features adaptive transformation, responsive integrations, and user-friendly tools that allow for automation with minimal coding. Workato enhances sales efficiency through automated customer intelligence, opportunity data population, and streamlined order fulfillment, while also improving customer service by leveraging artificial intelligence for support and feedback management. Additionally, it optimizes financial processes by automating billing and payment tasks. Workato supports targeted marketing efforts with real-time data synchronization and lead enrichment, and it facilitates business operations by breaking down application silos for improved project management and onboarding processes. The platform's advanced capabilities, including machine learning and patented technology, allow for rapid integration and operationalization of artificial intelligence while ensuring security and governance.

Level AI

Series A in 2021
Developer of an artificial intelligence platform designed for businesses to automate tedious workflows and improve the customer experience. The company's platform gives front-line workers the speed and intelligence of a supercomputer in a natural, human way, enabling organizations to support every customer interaction for every team member for any given marketing channel.

imc Test & Measurement

Acquisition in 2021
imc Test & Measurement specializes in developing advanced test and measurement hardware and software aimed primarily at the automotive, energy, rail, and aerospace sectors. The company provides a range of solutions, including e-mobility systems, test stands, and noise and vibration analysis tools. These offerings are designed to assist engineers in effectively implementing data acquisition systems and testing strategies, addressing the specific challenges faced by development teams in these industries. By focusing on productive and efficient solutions, imc Test & Measurement plays a crucial role in enhancing the testing and measurement processes necessary for innovation and development.

Workato

Series D in 2021
Workato, Inc. is a provider of a cloud automation and integration platform designed to streamline workflow automation across various applications for enterprises. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Workato enables business and IT teams to create and implement integrations and automate complex workflows efficiently. The platform features adaptive transformation, responsive integrations, and user-friendly tools that allow for automation with minimal coding. Workato enhances sales efficiency through automated customer intelligence, opportunity data population, and streamlined order fulfillment, while also improving customer service by leveraging artificial intelligence for support and feedback management. Additionally, it optimizes financial processes by automating billing and payment tasks. Workato supports targeted marketing efforts with real-time data synchronization and lead enrichment, and it facilitates business operations by breaking down application silos for improved project management and onboarding processes. The platform's advanced capabilities, including machine learning and patented technology, allow for rapid integration and operationalization of artificial intelligence while ensuring security and governance.

Workato

Series C in 2019
Workato, Inc. is a provider of a cloud automation and integration platform designed to streamline workflow automation across various applications for enterprises. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Workato enables business and IT teams to create and implement integrations and automate complex workflows efficiently. The platform features adaptive transformation, responsive integrations, and user-friendly tools that allow for automation with minimal coding. Workato enhances sales efficiency through automated customer intelligence, opportunity data population, and streamlined order fulfillment, while also improving customer service by leveraging artificial intelligence for support and feedback management. Additionally, it optimizes financial processes by automating billing and payment tasks. Workato supports targeted marketing efforts with real-time data synchronization and lead enrichment, and it facilitates business operations by breaking down application silos for improved project management and onboarding processes. The platform's advanced capabilities, including machine learning and patented technology, allow for rapid integration and operationalization of artificial intelligence while ensuring security and governance.

Robotiq

Venture Round in 2018
Robotiq Inc. specializes in designing and manufacturing industrial robotics, aiming to alleviate the burden of repetitive tasks for workers. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Lévis, Canada, the company offers a range of products, including various grippers such as the 2F-85, 2F-140, Hand-E adaptive gripper, and a 3-Finger adaptive gripper, alongside a wrist camera, force copilot, and FT 300 force torque sensor. In addition to its hardware, Robotiq develops software solutions to enhance the functionality of its products. The company facilitates faster project implementation for its clients by providing access to a community of automation professionals through its platform, enabling businesses to focus on tasks that generate greater value.

Workato

Series B in 2018
Workato, Inc. is a provider of a cloud automation and integration platform designed to streamline workflow automation across various applications for enterprises. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Workato enables business and IT teams to create and implement integrations and automate complex workflows efficiently. The platform features adaptive transformation, responsive integrations, and user-friendly tools that allow for automation with minimal coding. Workato enhances sales efficiency through automated customer intelligence, opportunity data population, and streamlined order fulfillment, while also improving customer service by leveraging artificial intelligence for support and feedback management. Additionally, it optimizes financial processes by automating billing and payment tasks. Workato supports targeted marketing efforts with real-time data synchronization and lead enrichment, and it facilitates business operations by breaking down application silos for improved project management and onboarding processes. The platform's advanced capabilities, including machine learning and patented technology, allow for rapid integration and operationalization of artificial intelligence while ensuring security and governance.

Analytical Industries

Acquisition in 2017
Analytical Industries Inc., operating as Advanced Instruments Inc., specializes in the design and manufacture of electrochemical galvanic fuel cell type oxygen sensors and analyzers. The company's product offerings include oxygen analyzers for parts per billion (ppb) and parts per million (ppm), oxygen purity analyzers, and a variety of gas analyzers tailored for industrial process control, natural gas applications, medical use, and diving. Additionally, the company provides sample conditioning systems and ambient safety monitors. With a global distribution network spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, Analytical Industries has established a reputation for innovative gas analysis solutions since its founding in 1994. The company is headquartered in Pomona, California, and functions as a subsidiary of Process Sensing Technologies Ltd.

Process Sensing Technologies

Private Equity Round in 2017
Process Sensing Technologies (PST) provides a comprehensive suite of instruments and analyzers for precision measurements. Essential for industrial process control, these products ensure process safety, increase plant efficiency and reduce fuel use – saving customers millions of dollars each year. The product ranges include precision hygrometers and dew-point transmitters for trace moisture measurements in both gases and process liquids. Rugged relative humidity probes and transmitters provide environmental control in demanding industrial conditions, while in the oil and gas sector pipeline transmission companies rely on our moisture and hydrocarbon dew-point analyzers to ensure the quality of natural gas. PST is also a leading provider or oxygen and binary gas analyzers, using zirconia, paramagnetic and electrochemical technologies for applications where personal or process safety, end product quality or combustion efficiency are of importance. The PST Group has a global presence with multiple locations in Europe, Asia and the Americas and looks for more opportunities to continue its growth through investment into new markets.

Michell Instruments

Acquisition in 2016
Michell Instruments is an international leader in high-precision sensing with 40 years’ experience in the field, specialising in instrumentation for dew point, relative humidity and oxygen analysis. The company serves industries as diverse as petrochemical and pharmaceutical to power generation and food processing.

SolarBridge Technologies

Series D in 2012
SolarBridge Technologies, originally founded as SmartSpark Energy Systems in 2004, specializes in power electronics technologies developed at the University of Illinois. In 2009, the company shifted its focus to the solar industry, offering advanced microinverter and monitoring solutions. With major research and development facilities in Champaign, Illinois, and a corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, SolarBridge is led by experienced professionals from both industry and academia. The company's mission centers on reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for solar installations by enhancing reliability, boosting energy production, and streamlining installation processes.

Redwood Systems

Series C in 2012
Redwood Systems' LED lighting system architecture helps customers reduce energy costs while providing a degree of control and automation of commercial lighting never before possible.

Detcon

Acquisition in 2011
Detcon is a Houston-based company that specializes in the design and manufacture of industrial-grade gas detection sensors and electronic control systems. The company provides a range of products, including fixed gas analyzers, control systems, pipeline analyzers, and wireless technology, catering to the needs of various industries that require effective monitoring of gas levels for safety and compliance. Detcon's focus on quality and innovation positions it as a key player in the gas detection market, ensuring reliable solutions for its clients.

SolarBridge Technologies

Series C in 2011
SolarBridge Technologies, originally founded as SmartSpark Energy Systems in 2004, specializes in power electronics technologies developed at the University of Illinois. In 2009, the company shifted its focus to the solar industry, offering advanced microinverter and monitoring solutions. With major research and development facilities in Champaign, Illinois, and a corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, SolarBridge is led by experienced professionals from both industry and academia. The company's mission centers on reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for solar installations by enhancing reliability, boosting energy production, and streamlining installation processes.

SkyFoundry

Seed Round in 2011
SkyFoundry develops the SkySpark data analytics platform, which focuses on enhancing energy management and building operations. The software enables domain experts to codify their knowledge into rules and algorithms that analyze both real-time and historical time-series data. SkySpark incorporates advanced features such as machine learning, artificial intelligence for pattern recognition, and comprehensive data visualization, allowing clients to effectively predict business growth and gain insights from their data. This technology transforms smart device data into actionable business solutions, supporting organizations in optimizing their operations.

Redwood Systems

Series B in 2010
Redwood Systems' LED lighting system architecture helps customers reduce energy costs while providing a degree of control and automation of commercial lighting never before possible.

SolarBridge Technologies

Series B in 2010
SolarBridge Technologies, originally founded as SmartSpark Energy Systems in 2004, specializes in power electronics technologies developed at the University of Illinois. In 2009, the company shifted its focus to the solar industry, offering advanced microinverter and monitoring solutions. With major research and development facilities in Champaign, Illinois, and a corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, SolarBridge is led by experienced professionals from both industry and academia. The company's mission centers on reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for solar installations by enhancing reliability, boosting energy production, and streamlining installation processes.

Redwood Systems

Series A in 2008
Redwood Systems' LED lighting system architecture helps customers reduce energy costs while providing a degree of control and automation of commercial lighting never before possible.

SolarBridge Technologies

Series A in 2007
SolarBridge Technologies, originally founded as SmartSpark Energy Systems in 2004, specializes in power electronics technologies developed at the University of Illinois. In 2009, the company shifted its focus to the solar industry, offering advanced microinverter and monitoring solutions. With major research and development facilities in Champaign, Illinois, and a corporate headquarters in Austin, Texas, SolarBridge is led by experienced professionals from both industry and academia. The company's mission centers on reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) for solar installations by enhancing reliability, boosting energy production, and streamlining installation processes.

BladeLogic

Series D in 2005
BladeLogic, prior to its acquisition by BMC in 2008, specialized in data center automation solutions tailored for IT organizations. Its offerings facilitated the optimization of IT infrastructure through dynamic policies that connected personnel, management tasks, and configuration data. This integration allowed for a more agile and efficient IT environment, addressing the comprehensive lifecycle of data center management. BladeLogic served a diverse clientele, including enterprises, service providers, and government agencies, providing the tools necessary for effective data center operations.

BladeLogic

Series B in 2003
BladeLogic, prior to its acquisition by BMC in 2008, specialized in data center automation solutions tailored for IT organizations. Its offerings facilitated the optimization of IT infrastructure through dynamic policies that connected personnel, management tasks, and configuration data. This integration allowed for a more agile and efficient IT environment, addressing the comprehensive lifecycle of data center management. BladeLogic served a diverse clientele, including enterprises, service providers, and government agencies, providing the tools necessary for effective data center operations.

BladeLogic

Series A in 2001
BladeLogic, prior to its acquisition by BMC in 2008, specialized in data center automation solutions tailored for IT organizations. Its offerings facilitated the optimization of IT infrastructure through dynamic policies that connected personnel, management tasks, and configuration data. This integration allowed for a more agile and efficient IT environment, addressing the comprehensive lifecycle of data center management. BladeLogic served a diverse clientele, including enterprises, service providers, and government agencies, providing the tools necessary for effective data center operations.
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