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…
The Secret To Long-Term Consumer-Tech Success: Subscription Pricing
Recently Warner Bros. made front-page news with its decision to release all its 2021 movies to theaters and online streaming service HBO Max simultaneously. One sentence from a Wall Street Journal art…
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 …
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…
Marketplace Startups: Here’s A Magic Number For Efficient Growth
In March 2019, consumer-marketplace businesses were on a tear. But some high-profile stumbles, including Uber and WeWork, dragged down our Battery Marketplace Index early in 2020 — and that was before…
The Key to Consumer-Marketplace Success in 2020: Efficiency and the Rule of 40
Early last year, it was easy to see why so many investors plunked money into consumer-marketplace businesses, which connect buyers and sellers online. The Battery Marketplace Index, which tracks the s…
How This Pandemic May Change The University Experience Forever
Darwinian change is coming for higher education. Even before Covid-19 hit, students and parents were questioning the skyrocketing cost of a traditional four-year degree. Now, with many universities an…
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…