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Early-stage fund with a 15-year track record of investing in innovative early-stage startups across the tech stack.

Focused on technologies for the global real estate industry.

Global, technology-focused investment firm with offices in the U.S., Europe, and Israel. They practice a collaborative, research-focused style of investing and regularly make early, growth, and buyout investments in the same tech sector.

Offers entrepreneurs a broad range of services to help them build their businesses at every stage of growth. They realize that one size does not fit all when it comes to today’s operational challenges. Norwest's mantra is "All of what you need and none of what you don’t".

Mission-driven VC firm with $835M AUM, leading investments in transformative companies building in future-tech.

Alex focuses on investing in financial services. Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013). Holds a BA in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard University.

Mike caught the technology bug at an early age. He started playing video games at age 4, taught himself programming at 13, and founded his first startup at 19. While studying for the bar exam, he had the idea for BarMax, a $1000 iPhone app for exam preparation, which is currently the top rated bar exam course in the app store.  Mike went on to co-found Stitcher, an early podcasting company backed by Benchmark where he led partnerships with The Wall Street Journal, NPR, The Washington Post, TechCrunch, and many others. Mike was also early at TrialPay, a payments company that was acquired by Visa, where he led the partnership with Facebook that doubled the company’s revenue. Mike’s enthusiasm for the early stage brought him to Yelp in 2010, where he was Vice President of Business Development and Corporate Development. In that role, Mike secured more than 200 partnerships with leading companies, including Apple, Microsoft, and Samsung, and he led Yelp’s acquisition of Eat24.

Spencer is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire, dot.LA, Pacaso, and Recon Food and who served as Zillow's CEO for a decade.

Former entrepreneur who invests in talented founders building innovative consumer-technology companies. Before joining Battery, Roger spent 10 years as an entrepreneur and operator. He was the co-founder and president of NetMarket, an ecommerce company that executed the first retail transaction on the Internet in 1994. NetMarket was acquired by Cendant Corporation. Roger also co-founded Corio, a leading managed-service provider that went public and was later acquired by IBM. Finally, he co-founded SMART, a non-profit that provides disadvantaged students access to educational opportunities, personal experiences and social support services to foster academic excellence and access to a college education. Roger has been named to the Forbes Midas List many times. Roger graduated from Yale University and is the President of the Yale University Council.

Author of the next big thing (nbt.substack.com).