This season of the Powered by Battery podcast features portfolio executives representing companies from various geographies and technology sectors. Th…
Marketplaces
A collection of insights around the trends in consumer marketplaces.
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 s…
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…
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…
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 pa…
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 Mar…
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.…
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 traditiona…
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 r…
What New Consumer Habits Will Stick Post-COVID-19? China Offers Clues
As Americans navigate the country’s reopening, China is well ahead. Chinese officials relaxed a strict lockdown on the city of Wuhan on April 8 …