Executive and Entrepreneur in Residence Program

• Introduction
• Our Value
• Submit a Business Plan
• EIR Program
• Case Studies
• Entrepreneur Showcase

Building Great Companies

It’s not enough to sit back, consider the present, and evaluate only those opportunities that come to us. Battery plays an active role in fueling the next generation of market leaders and in mentoring, fostering and promoting the entrepreneurial community.

We have two programs designed to build companies alongside individuals or teams with shared investment themes: Entrepreneurs in Residence and Executives in Residence. The Entrepreneurs and Executives are typically searching for their next big thing, and we can help. At the same time, their passion, leadership skills and domain knowledge are equally helpful to us in evaluating new opportunities.

Our Entrepreneur in Residence Program

Our Entrepreneurs are typically product-oriented, market visionaries focused on early stage concepts. We collaboratively research markets, iterate ideas and identify the most strategic pain points. We fund and incubate the team through early stages of product development and team build-out before launching the business to attack that opportunity. EIRs typically work with us for at least six months on a full-time basis, and transition to the newly formed company once we make an investment.

We have worked with many exciting Entrepreneurs to build portfolio companies, including:

• Ted Julian, @stake (acquired by Symantec)
• Vijay Manwani, BladeLogic
• Yanda Erlich, ChoiceVendor

Our Executive in Residence Program

Our Executives are experienced executives/operators of $20M–$100M businesses, typically working with us on later stage growth equity or buyout opportunities. We jointly source and analyze targets, share individual and institutional resources, and conduct all due diligence as a team. Once an asset is identified, we fund the investment and our Executive steps in to run it.

We have worked alongside a number of successful executives to build platform companies or operate larger businesses, including:

• Tom Ebling, former CEO, Lattice Engines and former executive at ProfitLogic
  (acquired by Oracle).
• Jeff Tognoni, CEO, Consona Software. We worked with Jeff to take an orphaned
  public company private, and build it through subsequent acquisitions.

Read about our current EIRs

Download a fact sheet on our EIR Program (PDF)

View videos of our EIRs and other portfolio company executives

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