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Jordan Welu

Partner at Battery Ventures

Boston, Massachusetts

Overview 

Jordan Welu is a Partner at Battery Ventures in Boston, Massachusetts, with expertise in mergers & acquisitions, corporate development, and venture capital. Highlights of his career include roles as VP of Corporate Development at Rogue Wave Software and Director of Finance at Webroot Software. Jordan Welu, a Partner at Battery Ventures, has a strong background in corporate development and finance, with notable positions at Rogue Wave Software and Webroot Software. He specializes in mergers & acquisitions and venture capital within sectors like cybersecurity, developer tools, and FinTech.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2014 - Current

    Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm pursuing the most promising companies and ideas. Founded in 1983, our firm makes venture-capital and private equity investments from offices in Boston, Silicon Valley and Israel. We work hard, but humbly, and are guided by data-driven processes. We seek out extraordinary businesses and leaders who operate the same way. At Battery, I focus on growth- and late-stage investments for enterprise software companies focused on vertical applications and infrastructure, including devops, security, middleware and networking.

Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.

  • VP, Corporate Development

    2007 - 2014

    Solely responsible for the creation and execution of Rogue Wave’s acquisition strategy, including sector evaluation, target identification, transaction negotiation, due diligence, transaction financing and business integration

SOA repository and governance vendor

  • Director, Finance

    2005 - 2007

Webroot by OpenText is an anti-virus software that utilizes AI technology to provide endpoint protection.

  • Research Associate, Enterprise Application Software

    2003 - 2005

    Coverage included: Ascential Software, Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Documentum, E.piphany, FileNet, Hyperion Solutions, Informatica, JD Edwards, MapInfo, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Novell, Oracle, Palmsource, PeopleSoft, Pervasive Software, Red Hat, Siebel Systems, Sybase and salesforce.com.

  • Analyst, Mergers & Acquisitions

    2000 - 2002

Sustainable Private Equity and Credit Investments

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