Battery Ventures: Alex Benik

Alex joined Battery in 2001 and currently works out of Battery's Waltham office. From 2001 to 2006, he was based in Menlo Park. Alex focuses on investments in infrastructure technologies for Enterprise, Data Centers, and wired/wireless service providers. He has also been actively involved in building Battery’s semiconductor portfolio. During his tenure at Battery, Alex has been involved with several of the firm’s investments including Achronix, Anobit Technologies, Aurora Networks, Cumulus Networks, MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL), Optichron, Veraz Networks (NASDAQ: VRAZ), Umami, VSS Monitoring, and ZeroG Wireless (acquired by Microchip).

Prior to joining the firm, Alex was an Analyst at The Yankee Group, where he performed market research and consulting focused on local, wide area, and transport networks. While in this position, he executed strategic marketing and competitive analysis for clients including major telecommunications equipment and service providers. Alex earned a BA in Government from Wesleyan University.

Alex co-authors www.thewholestack.com, a blog focused on infrastructure IT.

Investments:

Achronix
World's fastest field programmable gate arrays
Anobit Technologies
Signal processing solutions for memory
Aurora Networks
High-bandwidth cable and fiber optic transmission systems
Cumulus Networks
Making networks invisible for Internet scale applications
MaxLinear (NYSE: MXL)
Radio Frequency (RF) components for fixed and mobile television
Optichron
Proprietary mixed-signal semiconductors
Veraz Networks (NASDAQ: VRAZ)
Soft switch for next-generation telephone networks
Umami
TV. Enhanced.
VSS Monitoring
Intelligent distributed traffic capture

Joined Battery:

2001

Areas of Interest:

Networking for virtualized and cloud environments, network monitoring and management, mobile data