Aaron Batalion

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

.NET Evangelist

2002 - 2003

Software Developer

2001 - 2003