Consumer marketplaces are undeniably hot right now. Since December, around $150 billion in equity value has hit the public markets through the IPOs of online marketplace companies including Airbnb*, D…
Taking the Hassle Out of Managing Rental Properties—With Tech
In 2020, bedrooms converted into offices, kitchen tables doubled as homework stations and living rooms turned into make-shift gyms. If there was one real estate trend that defined this pandemic-stric…
End-to-End Operators: The Next-Generation Consumer Businesses
At Battery, a central part of our consumer-investing practice involves tracking the evolution of where and how consumers find and purchase goods and services. From our annual State of Marketplaces Con…
Broadening Access to Mental Health Care – Our Investment in Modern Health
We all face personal and work-related challenges that affect our emotional and mental states: relationship issues, conflict at home or work, addiction, sleep difficulties, trauma and grief are just a …
From Good to Great: How to Ace Your Marketplace Fundraise
They say first impressions are critical, and that certainly rings true when you’re pitching your company to investors. As a founder or CEO, your pitch is often the most important factor determining wh…
Covid 19-Related Regulatory and Behavioral Shifts Drive Big Growth at Marketplace Companies—and Lead to IPOs
Despite all the upheavals of 2020, shares of many technology companies—particularly online-marketplace businesses—have continued to shine. Over the past 12 months, as of Nov 8th, the Battery Marketpla…
Can Your Marketplace Company Survive COVID-19? New Battery Growth Metrics Can Help
Even before COVID-19 upended the global economy in March, many consumer-marketplace businesses were facing a sort of reckoning. Too many of them had raised huge amounts of money from investors to fuel…
Online Education is Having its Moment in a COVID-19 World: Part 2, Adult Learners
COVID-19 has disrupted learning and education for over 1 billion students globally, and I explored the implications to K-12 students in my previous post in this series. Higher ed students and adult le…
Online Education is Having its Moment in a COVID-19 World: Part 1, K-12
The world we’re living in now would have been unimaginable just a couple of months ago. Across the globe, the coronavirus is changing the way we live and work at breakneck speeds. The highest priority…
Online Universities, MOOCs and More . . . What’s Next in Ed Tech?
It’s clear that education in the U.S. is still in dire straits. We spend more than most other developed countries on education, yet our students have fallen behind in academic success. Educators lack …