Battery Ventures

Battery Ventures is a technology-focused investment firm founded in 1983 and based in Boston, Massachusetts. It engages in venture capital and private equity investments in technology companies, with emphasis on software (including application and infrastructure software), IT infrastructure technologies, consumer internet and mobile services, industrial technologies, and life science tools. The firm seeks to back category-defining businesses with potential for scalable growth, often supporting companies through multiple stages and across select global regions.

Roland Anderson

Principal

Alex Benik

Partner

Dallin Bills

Investment Professional

Michael Brown

General Partner

Mackenzie Chapman

Investor

Sudheendra Chilappagari

Investor

Morad Elhafed

General Partner

Zak Ewen

Partner

Cornel Faucher

Partner

Jesse Feldman

General Partner

Russell Fleischer

General Partner

Duncan Gills

Vice President

Brandon Gleklen

Principal

Barak Schoster Goihman

Venture Partner

Margaret Hendren

Analyst

Olivia Henkoff

Associate

Dillon Joyce

Principal

Max-Julian Kaye

Principal

Roger Lee

General Partner

Brian Lieber

Partner

Lior Mallul

Investor

Victoria Mayzlish

Analyst, Investments

Paul Morrissey

Principal

Mason Parker

Investor

Matt Penney

Partner

Justin Rosner

Principal

Marcus Ryu

Partner

Noah Sadhwani

Investor

Chris Schiavo

CFO

Collier Searle

Vice President

Shiran Shalev

Partner

Juliette Silvain

Investor

Zachary Smotherman

General Partner

Zack Smotherman

General Partner

Gavin Tasker

Associate

Scott Tobin

General Partner

Chandler Ward

Investor

Jordan Welu

Partner

Enzo Wiener

Investor

Peter Winans

Associate

Adi Zukovsky

Associate

Luis-Luca de Haas

Investor

Past deals in Open Source

Nexthop AI

Series A in 2025
Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure and custom networking solutions for large cloud operators, focusing on enhancing operational efficiency and connectivity within complex network environments. The company offers a range of services, including network automation, data management, and analytics, enabling clients to optimize their network performance and streamline their operations. Through its innovative solutions, Nexthop AI addresses the challenges faced by cloud operators, providing tools that facilitate seamless integration and scalability in dynamic computing environments. Additionally, Nexthop AI emphasizes compatibility with open-source network operating systems, allowing clients to leverage existing technologies while implementing advanced networking strategies.

ZeroTier

Series A in 2024
ZeroTier offers a software-defined networking solution that enables users to create private networks connecting multiple devices globally. The platform supports direct peer-to-peer connections, ensures data privacy through end-to-end encryption, and is compatible with various operating systems.

AdaCore

Acquisition in 2024
AdaCore specializes in commercial software solutions for Ada, a programming language designed for large-scale applications requiring safety, security, and reliability. Their flagship product, GNAT Pro, is a comprehensive development environment with expert support, available on multiple platforms.

Weaviate

Series B in 2023
Weaviate is a company that offers an open-source AI-native database and hybrid SaaS platform to build search and recommendation systems. Its vector search engine supports semantic search and integrates with applications via plugins and a console that helps understand data. The platform merges vector and keyword search to enable end-to-end AI-native application development, supporting synchronous, asynchronous, and multi-step data interactions.

Bitwarden

Series B in 2022
Founded in 2015, Bitwarden is a globally distributed company specializing in open-source password management solutions. It enables individuals, teams, and businesses to securely store, share, and sync sensitive data across multiple devices.

Code Ocean

Series B in 2022
Code Ocean is a cloud-based platform that enables researchers and developers to share, discover, and run code and data associated with academic publications. The service provides an end-to-end workflow for reproducible research, allowing users to deposit code, data, and dependencies into a self-contained compute capsule that can be accessed and executed in the cloud without installing software locally. By centralizing code, data, and computational history, the platform supports transparency and reuse, helping researchers validate results and build on prior work. It serves researchers, institutions, and publishers and supports collaboration from project initiation to publication, with compute resources such as CPUs and GPUs available to execute analyses in a standardized, shareable environment. Code Ocean was founded in 2015 and is based in New York.

Voltron Data

Series A in 2022
Voltron Data develops tools to enhance the existing data analytics ecosystem. It focuses on improving efficiency by creating modular and composable analytics building blocks.

Styra

Series B in 2021
Styra, Inc. is a technology company based in Redwood City, California, founded in 2015. It specializes in developing a cloud-native authorization platform that enables organizations to enforce and monitor authorization policies across their applications and infrastructure. The core offering, the Styra Declarative Authorization Service, provides context-based admission control to enhance security, streamline compliance, and minimize human errors in cloud-native environments. Styra's platform incorporates features such as policy design, validation, distribution, monitoring, and auditing, allowing users to implement authorization policy-as-code effectively. By utilizing declarative models, the platform helps prevent security drift and errors before deployment. Styra's solutions are compatible with various technologies, including microservices, containers, and multi-cloud environments, ensuring comprehensive security management for modern application development.

Code Ocean

Series A in 2021
Code Ocean is a cloud-based platform that enables researchers and developers to share, discover, and run code and data associated with academic publications. The service provides an end-to-end workflow for reproducible research, allowing users to deposit code, data, and dependencies into a self-contained compute capsule that can be accessed and executed in the cloud without installing software locally. By centralizing code, data, and computational history, the platform supports transparency and reuse, helping researchers validate results and build on prior work. It serves researchers, institutions, and publishers and supports collaboration from project initiation to publication, with compute resources such as CPUs and GPUs available to execute analyses in a standardized, shareable environment. Code Ocean was founded in 2015 and is based in New York.

Cypress.io

Series B in 2020
Cypress.io, Inc. is a company that specializes in developing a front-end testing tool designed for developers and QA engineers to effectively test software applications. Founded in 2014 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, Cypress.io offers an automated end-to-end and component testing solution that operates within browser environments. Its flagship product, the open-source Cypress App, integrates existing testing tools with a graphical user interface, enabling users to monitor and debug tests efficiently. Additionally, the company provides Cypress Cloud, a hosted service that leverages insights from previous test runs to enhance continuous integration (CI) workflows, improve test suite analytics, and facilitate intelligent CI orchestration. With a diverse customer base exceeding 3,700 across 78 countries and 65 industries, Cypress.io has facilitated the execution of over 5 billion tests, significantly enhancing developer productivity while optimizing CI costs.

Mattermost

Series B in 2019
Mattermost is an open-source, secure collaboration platform for software development teams that provides enterprise-grade messaging, configurable across web, mobile, and desktop, with features such as archiving, search, and deep integration with in-house systems. It centralizes development communications and workflow orchestration, enabling teams to build and automate processes while maintaining data privacy and security. The platform supports secure collaboration across large teams and is used by a broad customer base. The company originated as SpinPunch and was renamed Mattermost in 2015 after being established in 2011, and it is based in Palo Alto, California.

Bitwarden

Series A in 2019
Founded in 2015, Bitwarden is a globally distributed company specializing in open-source password management solutions. It enables individuals, teams, and businesses to securely store, share, and sync sensitive data across multiple devices.

Sensu

Series A in 2018
Sensu is a monitoring platform that provides comprehensive visibility into dynamic operating environments, including public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructures, as well as container-based systems. The platform is designed to help high-velocity organizations streamline their monitoring processes by consolidating existing tools while maintaining interfaces that deliver complete visibility across all systems and protocols. Sensu focuses on supporting best practices in software and infrastructure-as-code development, addressing the unique challenges associated with modern IT environments. Committed to open-source development, the company continues to innovate its approach to full-stack monitoring. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Sensu has a global workforce dedicated to enhancing operational visibility for IT, development, and operations teams.

VividCortex

Series A in 2017
VividCortex, Inc. is a developer of Software as a Service (SaaS) tools focused on database performance monitoring and analysis. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Arlington, Texas, and Charlottesville, Virginia, the company provides an innovative platform that enables organizations to measure, analyze, and optimize the performance of various open-source databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis. VividCortex’s solution offers comprehensive visibility into database operations, allowing engineering teams to monitor performance across multiple servers simultaneously without the overhead typical of other monitoring tools. By utilizing patented algorithms and advanced statistical methods, the platform delivers actionable insights into database workload and query performance, helping clients proactively address issues and enhance application efficiency. The company serves a diverse clientele, including industry leaders like Etsy and GitHub, and is recognized for its unique, focused approach to database monitoring, which emphasizes clarity and depth in understanding database performance.

VividCortex

Series A in 2016
VividCortex, Inc. is a developer of Software as a Service (SaaS) tools focused on database performance monitoring and analysis. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Arlington, Texas, and Charlottesville, Virginia, the company provides an innovative platform that enables organizations to measure, analyze, and optimize the performance of various open-source databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis. VividCortex’s solution offers comprehensive visibility into database operations, allowing engineering teams to monitor performance across multiple servers simultaneously without the overhead typical of other monitoring tools. By utilizing patented algorithms and advanced statistical methods, the platform delivers actionable insights into database workload and query performance, helping clients proactively address issues and enhance application efficiency. The company serves a diverse clientele, including industry leaders like Etsy and GitHub, and is recognized for its unique, focused approach to database monitoring, which emphasizes clarity and depth in understanding database performance.

Cask

Series B in 2015
Cask is an open-source software company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in simplifying the construction and operation of big data solutions. The company offers a unified integration platform that significantly accelerates the time required to deploy data applications and data lakes, reducing it by up to 80%. Cask's platform combines data integration and application development capabilities, facilitating rapid development in both public and private cloud environments. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.

Chef Software

Series E in 2015
Chef Software is a leading provider of Continuous Automation software based in Seattle, Washington. Renowned for its role in the DevOps movement, Chef collaborates with over a thousand innovative companies globally to facilitate digital transformation. Its flagship product, Chef Automate, integrates infrastructure and application management, enabling enterprises to swiftly and securely build, deploy, and manage applications across various environments. Additionally, Chef's Habitat product enhances application automation, supporting diverse release scenarios and modernization initiatives. The InSpec tool aids organizations in maintaining compliance and security during cloud migration through a 'Detect, Correct, Automate' strategy. Chef's open-source solutions allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily readable. By continuously evaluating and correcting configuration states, Chef ensures consistent application management, thus empowering development, operations, and security teams to enhance their software delivery processes effectively.

Chef Software

Series D in 2013
Chef Software is a leading provider of Continuous Automation software based in Seattle, Washington. Renowned for its role in the DevOps movement, Chef collaborates with over a thousand innovative companies globally to facilitate digital transformation. Its flagship product, Chef Automate, integrates infrastructure and application management, enabling enterprises to swiftly and securely build, deploy, and manage applications across various environments. Additionally, Chef's Habitat product enhances application automation, supporting diverse release scenarios and modernization initiatives. The InSpec tool aids organizations in maintaining compliance and security during cloud migration through a 'Detect, Correct, Automate' strategy. Chef's open-source solutions allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily readable. By continuously evaluating and correcting configuration states, Chef ensures consistent application management, thus empowering development, operations, and security teams to enhance their software delivery processes effectively.

VividCortex

Seed Round in 2013
VividCortex, Inc. is a developer of Software as a Service (SaaS) tools focused on database performance monitoring and analysis. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., with additional offices in Arlington, Texas, and Charlottesville, Virginia, the company provides an innovative platform that enables organizations to measure, analyze, and optimize the performance of various open-source databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon Aurora, MongoDB, and Redis. VividCortex’s solution offers comprehensive visibility into database operations, allowing engineering teams to monitor performance across multiple servers simultaneously without the overhead typical of other monitoring tools. By utilizing patented algorithms and advanced statistical methods, the platform delivers actionable insights into database workload and query performance, helping clients proactively address issues and enhance application efficiency. The company serves a diverse clientele, including industry leaders like Etsy and GitHub, and is recognized for its unique, focused approach to database monitoring, which emphasizes clarity and depth in understanding database performance.

Cask

Series A in 2012
Cask is an open-source software company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in simplifying the construction and operation of big data solutions. The company offers a unified integration platform that significantly accelerates the time required to deploy data applications and data lakes, reducing it by up to 80%. Cask's platform combines data integration and application development capabilities, facilitating rapid development in both public and private cloud environments. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.

Chef Software

Series C in 2012
Chef Software is a leading provider of Continuous Automation software based in Seattle, Washington. Renowned for its role in the DevOps movement, Chef collaborates with over a thousand innovative companies globally to facilitate digital transformation. Its flagship product, Chef Automate, integrates infrastructure and application management, enabling enterprises to swiftly and securely build, deploy, and manage applications across various environments. Additionally, Chef's Habitat product enhances application automation, supporting diverse release scenarios and modernization initiatives. The InSpec tool aids organizations in maintaining compliance and security during cloud migration through a 'Detect, Correct, Automate' strategy. Chef's open-source solutions allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily readable. By continuously evaluating and correcting configuration states, Chef ensures consistent application management, thus empowering development, operations, and security teams to enhance their software delivery processes effectively.

Cask

Seed Round in 2012
Cask is an open-source software company based in Palo Alto, California, that specializes in simplifying the construction and operation of big data solutions. The company offers a unified integration platform that significantly accelerates the time required to deploy data applications and data lakes, reducing it by up to 80%. Cask's platform combines data integration and application development capabilities, facilitating rapid development in both public and private cloud environments. The company is supported by prominent investors, including Battery Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Ignition Partners.

Chef Software

Series B in 2010
Chef Software is a leading provider of Continuous Automation software based in Seattle, Washington. Renowned for its role in the DevOps movement, Chef collaborates with over a thousand innovative companies globally to facilitate digital transformation. Its flagship product, Chef Automate, integrates infrastructure and application management, enabling enterprises to swiftly and securely build, deploy, and manage applications across various environments. Additionally, Chef's Habitat product enhances application automation, supporting diverse release scenarios and modernization initiatives. The InSpec tool aids organizations in maintaining compliance and security during cloud migration through a 'Detect, Correct, Automate' strategy. Chef's open-source solutions allow users to define infrastructure as code, ensuring configurations are flexible, version-controlled, and easily readable. By continuously evaluating and correcting configuration states, Chef ensures consistent application management, thus empowering development, operations, and security teams to enhance their software delivery processes effectively.

Neocleus

Series B in 2008
Neocleus specializes in endpoint virtualization technology tailored for enterprise IT departments. The company offers NeoSphere, an extensible client virtualization platform that integrates existing PC management systems with advanced visualization capabilities. Neocleus' solutions address critical endpoint concerns by enabling IT resources to operate outside of a Windows environment while maintaining full access to the underlying endpoint hardware. This approach provides IT departments with a virtual endpoint environment that is both manageable and secure, allowing users to access corporate assets from any endpoint, regardless of location or security state. Additionally, Neocleus has enhanced the Xen Open Source hypervisor, transforming it into an endpoint-oriented hypervisor and contributing it to the open source community to foster an ecosystem of virtualization partners and collaborators. This initiative enables software developers to concentrate on creating high-performance applications without the complexities of the underlying architecture.

Neocleus

Series A in 2007
Neocleus specializes in endpoint virtualization technology tailored for enterprise IT departments. The company offers NeoSphere, an extensible client virtualization platform that integrates existing PC management systems with advanced visualization capabilities. Neocleus' solutions address critical endpoint concerns by enabling IT resources to operate outside of a Windows environment while maintaining full access to the underlying endpoint hardware. This approach provides IT departments with a virtual endpoint environment that is both manageable and secure, allowing users to access corporate assets from any endpoint, regardless of location or security state. Additionally, Neocleus has enhanced the Xen Open Source hypervisor, transforming it into an endpoint-oriented hypervisor and contributing it to the open source community to foster an ecosystem of virtualization partners and collaborators. This initiative enables software developers to concentrate on creating high-performance applications without the complexities of the underlying architecture.

Storability Software

Series D in 2003
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to streamline and centralize the administration of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers organizations to better understand and manage their storage assets. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, customers experience enhanced asset utilization, improved management efficiency, superior service quality, and increased availability of their storage resources. The company's focus on simplifying storage management allows clients to maximize their investment in storage technology.

Storability Software

Series C in 2002
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to streamline and centralize the administration of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers organizations to better understand and manage their storage assets. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, customers experience enhanced asset utilization, improved management efficiency, superior service quality, and increased availability of their storage resources. The company's focus on simplifying storage management allows clients to maximize their investment in storage technology.

Storability Software

Series B in 2001
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to streamline and centralize the administration of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers organizations to better understand and manage their storage assets. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, customers experience enhanced asset utilization, improved management efficiency, superior service quality, and increased availability of their storage resources. The company's focus on simplifying storage management allows clients to maximize their investment in storage technology.

Opencola

Series B in 2001
OpenCola, Ltd. went out of business. OpenCola, Ltd. operates as a peer-to-peer software company. The company is an open-source development shop working in the area of distributed computing and peer-to-peer exchange. Its flagship application is openCOLA, an autonomous and collaborative agent that collects, analyzes, and delivers content. The application links customers who are searching for certain information with expert groups that are knowledgeable about a particular topic. Inputs can be set to cull the Web, Usenet, your e-mail, and other Internet information resources. Outputs can be set to post relevant results to the Web, Wireless devices, and PDAs, among others. A beta release of openCOLA is scheduled for fall release. OpenCola, Ltd. was founded in 1999 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Storability Software

Series A in 2000
Storability Software specializes in enterprise storage resource management solutions designed to streamline and centralize the administration of complex, multi-site, and multi-vendor storage infrastructures. Its flagship product, the Global Storage Manager, is an open standards-based solution that empowers organizations to better understand and manage their storage assets. By utilizing Storability Software's offerings, customers experience enhanced asset utilization, improved management efficiency, superior service quality, and increased availability of their storage resources. The company's focus on simplifying storage management allows clients to maximize their investment in storage technology.
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