Battery in India
Our Extended Indian Network
Actively involved in India for more than a decade, Battery has made direct investments in Indian-based market leaders such as TechProcess, Tejas Networks and Travelguru. In addition, as business has globalized and moved offshore, we have invested in numerous U.S.-based companies with major operations in India, including BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG), Movius, Consona (formerly Made2Manage), Mformation, Netezza (NYSE Arca: NZ), Veraz Networks (NASDAQ: VRAZ) and Witness Systems.
This extended network and our years of experience working alongside Indian-based and Indian-focused entrepreneurs can be readily leveraged by all of our portfolio companies. The dozens of successful entrepreneurs of Indian descent who we have backed include:
- Bladelogic
Dev Ittycheria, Co-founder, President and CEO
Vijay Manwani, Co-founder, SVP and CTO
- Lara Networks (acquired by Cypress Semiconductor)
Ajit Medhekar, Founder and CEO
- Mformation
Upal Basu, Co-founder and VP of Strategy and Business Development
Dr. Rakesh Kushwaha, Co-founder and CTO
- MCA Solutions
Vipul Agrawal, Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Products
- MRU Holdings
Vishal Garg, Co-founder and CFO
Raza Khan, Co-founder and President
- Neoteris (acquired by Netscreen Technologies)
Kittu Kolluri, CEO
Sam Srinivas, Founder, VP of Product Management
Sri Ramachandran, VP Engineering
- Netezza
Jit Saxena, Founder and CEO
- The NewsMarket
Shoba Purushothaman, Co-founder, President and CEO
- Optichron
Ravi Ramachandran, Founder and Director of Microelectronics
- TechProcess
Bikramjit Sen, CEO
- Tejas Networks
Sanjay Nayak, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Kumar N. Sivarajan, Co-founder and CTO
Arnob Roy, Co-founder and Vice President of Engineering
- Travelguru
Ashwin Damera, Co-founder and CEO
- Veraz Networks
Amit Chalwa, VP Global Business Units and Engineering
Vijay Nadkami, VP of Engineering
R. Paul Singh, Founder and VP of Business Development
Our Advisory Board
We are proud to have recruited a number of prominent executives as founding members of our Indian Advisory Board. Hailing from some of India’s foremost product and services companies, they provide an essential combination of management and technical vision.
As accomplished entrepreneurs and business leaders, our Advisory Board lends invaluable guidance, operational experience and important connections to our Indian portfolio companies. They also provide expert advice to the Battery team on the country’s rapidly growing and evolving investment landscape.
Pradeep
Kar
Founder, Chairman and Managing Director
Microland
Sridhar Mitta
Managing Director, CTO and e4e India Founder
e4e
Arjun Malhotra
CEO and Chairman of the Board
Headstrong
Ashok
Narasimhan
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder
July Systems