Battery Ventures: Neeraj Agrawal

General Partner
Boston
neeraj@battery.com

Neeraj joined Battery in 2000 and invests in enterprise software/SaaS, technology-enabled services and Internet companies. He was a founding investor in BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG, sold to BMC for $900M). In addition to BladeLogic, Neeraj’s investments include Applimation (acquired by Informatica), Bazaarvoice, Brightree, Consona, Glassdoor, Guidewire Software (NASDAQ: GWRE), Internet Brands (NASDAQ: INET), LifeMed Media, Marketo, Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR), RealPage (NASDAQ: RP), VSS Monitoring, and Wayfair (formerly CSN Stores). He is also actively involved with Groupon and Panaya.

Prior to Battery, Neeraj worked as a product manager at Real Networks, an operating executive at SkyTV, and a management consultant with Booz-Allen. Neeraj holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from Cornell University as well as an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School. He is a Charter Member of TiE, an active advisor to several local entrepreneurs, and was named to the Forbes Midas List, which ranks the top 100 venture capitalists around the world.

Current Investments:

Bazaarvoice
SaaS-based social commerce platorm
Brightree
SaaS solution for Home Medical Equipment/Durable Medical Equipment market
Consona (formerly Made2Manage)
Acquisition platform for mid-market ERP & CRM solutions
Glassdoor
Jobs and career community
Groupon
Leading Social Commerce and group buying site
Guidewire Software (NASDAQ: GWRE)
Software for the P&C insurance industry
LifeMed Media (dLife)
Consumer healthcare content and community
Panaya
SaaS for automating SAP upgrades and maintenance
Marketo
Marketing automation
RealPage (NASDAQ: RP)
Property Management Software for the multifamily real estate industry
VSS Monitoring
Intelligent distributed traffic capture
Wayfair (formerly CSN Stores)
Online retailer of home and office goods

Previous Investments:

A Place for Mom (acquired by Warburg Pincus)
Internet lead generation for senior housing vertical
Applimation (acquired by Informatica)
Enterprise data management software
BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG; acquired by BMC Software for $900M)
Datacenter automation software
Internet Brands (NASDAQ: INET; acquired for $640M)
Operates community and e-commerce web sites
ITA Software (acquired by Google)
Advanced pricing, shopping and connectivity software for travel industry
Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR; acquired by Adobe for $2.1B)
SaaS solutions for web analytics

BladeLogic
Delivering a strategic solution for
Fortune 500 customers

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BladeLogic
Finding and funding an idea in a
huge market

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Bazaarvoice
Transforming UGC into bottom-line results & pioneering Social Commerce

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Brightree
Adding intellect & energy

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Joined Battery:

2000

Areas of Interest:

Software, technology-enabled services and Internet

Early, expansion and private equity investments