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Private Equity
Our private equity practice focuses exclusively on technology companies in the U.S., Europe and Israel, which we grow organically and through acquisitions.
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Portfolio Support
Our team has focused expertise in areas including recruiting and human resources; marketing and PR/communications; scaling IT infrastructure and development; and business development. Our experts are here to support you with a variety of tools and value-added services.
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Portfolio Support
Our team has focused expertise in areas including recruiting and human resources; marketing; scaling IT infrastructure and development; PR/communications; and business development. Our experts are here to support you and your business with a variety of tools and value-added services.
Battery assists its portfolio companies with a range of public-relations and communications issues. Battery’s communications team—led by Vice President Rebecca Buckman and Marketing Manager Alicia Halatsis—is a resource for early-stage companies just starting to tell their stories, as well as more-mature firms that may want to re-position their brands in advance of a liquidity event or restructuring, or get help during a crisis. Battery also employs an outside PR firm to assist with some portfolio-company announcements and offer ongoing, strategic guidance. Specific services include:
- Tactical help with news announcements, such as a fundraising or a product launch;
- Assistance hiring an outside PR firm or internal PR/marketing staff;
- Serving as a liaison with industry and financial conference organizers;
- Crisis communications;
- Corporate messaging and positioning, and help with PR strategy;
- Assistance with strategy on content marketing and executive bylines.
At Battery, business development is built into our DNA. We don’t segregate this function to a certain segment of our staff. Everyone at the firm—from general partners to other investment-team members to operations professionals—works tirelessly to connect our portfolio executives with partners and potential new customers. We strive to maintain a set of high-level, leverage-able relationships with CIOs, CTOs, CMOs and other buyers of technology around the globe—as well as with top executives at larger corporations. We also hold small and large events, ranging from intimate dinners to larger summits, year-round, to facilitate customer and partner introductions.
Talent management and acquisition have long been a focus at Battery. This discipline is led by Kelly Kinnard, Battery’s VP of Talent. Kelly is a resource for startups needing to create and develop a high-performance organization, as well as for late-stage companies looking for specific executive talent.
Battery’s HR services include:
- Directly leading executive searches for portfolio companies;
- Managing a preferred group of retained and contingent search firms to support portfolio companies;
- Offering advice on employee on-boarding and team building;
- Assisting with developing compensation plans.
Strategy
In our private equity practice, we leverage Battery’s 35 years of experience identifying and building technology companies across all stages of development. We work with management teams to accelerate growth, access new markets and transform businesses in the information and industrial technology sectors. We embrace complex situations and provide highly flexible capital to meet the needs of a diverse range of deal types, including buyouts of family or founder-owned companies; public to privates; and divisional carve-outs of business units. Because we are technology experts, and not just financial investors, we can look beyond basic profit metrics to understand the true potential of a business. We invest in companies with revenue between $5 million and $200 million and build promising businesses into global technology leaders. As a firm, we have raised over $6.9 billion since inception and are now investing our latest funds with a combined capitalization of $1.25 billion.
Team
Our investment staff works together as a single, global unit to evaluate and support potential investments. Every portfolio company — before, during and after we invest — will work with a dedicated team of experts to help it grow.
Companies
Our firm has invested in more than 300 companies over our 35-year history, and we’ve been fortunate to back some very big ideas. We value creativity and innovation, and applaud individuals and teams with a relentless desire to build companies that will redefine technology sectors, industries and the way we live.
Sectors
Information Technology
Our experience in information technology spans markets including infrastructure hardware and software; application software; and business and technology services.
Industrial Technology
In our industrial technology practice we focus on analytical instrumentation; test and measurement; process control and automation; and specialty industrial services.