Aaron Batalion
Investor at Batalion Capital
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Angel Investor
2013 - Current
Early stage investor in 50+ companies and seed funds.
Venture Partner
2018 - 2019
Transitioned to Venture Partner to pursue new ideas. I will continue to sit on the boards of companies I invested in, support all of the teams I worked with, and am so excited for the world to see these companies launch, grow, and thrive.
General Partner
2015 - 2018
Why did I join a VC firm? https://medium.com/@abatalion/the-next-step-on-my-journey-b530ca0269c Lightspeed's Post: http://lsvp.com/2015/11/12/im-exited-to-welcome-aaron-batalion-to-lightspeed/ --- Lightspeed Venture Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends in the Enterprise and Consumer sectors. Over the past two decades, the Lightspeed team has backed and helped build more than 200 companies globally, many of which have become market leaders. The Firm currently manages over $3 billion of committed capital and is currently investing out of Lightspeed X, a $635 million fund and Lightspeed Select, a $430 million fund. Our team invests in the U.S. and internationally.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Advisory Board Member
2015 - 2017
Pencils of Promise (aka PoP) is a non-profit organization that builds schools and increases educational opportunities in the developing world. As of January 2015, the charity has served over 31k students, built 250+ schools and has provided ~25M education hours.
Pencils of Promise create schools, programs and global communities around the education for all.
Founding Member
2015 - 2016
South Park Commons is a community of builders, tinkerers, and domain experts that challenge you, encourage you, help you build and validate your ideas.
South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.
Technology Advisory Board Member
2013 - 2016
Spencer Stuart is a global executive search and leadership consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1956 and operates 56 offices in 30 countries. Spencer Stuart works with clients across a range of industries, from the world’s largest companies to medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurial startups and nonprofit organizations. It led the Yahoo CEO search that placed Marissa Mayer and were chosen for the Twitter CEO search to replace Dick Costello in 2015.
Spencer Stuart is a business consultancy that focuses on leadership consulting, business development, staffing and recruiting management.
Co-Founder & CTO
2007 - 2013
As co-founder and CTO of LivingSocial, Aaron helped lead the team from 4 to 4000 employees across 20+ countries and to billions in sales.
LivingSocial provides an online local marketplace to buy and share things.
Raised $928,225,039.00 from U.S. Venture Partners, Amazon, T. Rowe Price, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Revolution, Grotech Ventures and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc..
Architect
2006 - 2007
Revolution, a new company launched by Steve Case in April 2005, seeks to drive transformative change by shifting power to consumers. Revolution Health Group, one of three business groups in the Revolution family, was established in July 2005 to create the leading comprehensive consumer-directed healthcare company.
Software Architect
2003 - 2005
Accenture Ventures is a venture capital firm arm of Accenture, delivers innovative solutions with strategic partnerships and investments.
.NET Evangelist
2002 - 2003
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Software Developer
2001 - 2003
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an edge-to-cloud company that uses comprehensive solutions to accelerate business outcomes.
Raised $1,350,000,000.00.
Education
Interpersonal Dynamics Program
2016 - 2016
BS / BA
1998 - 2003