Audit and Beyond: The Unbelievably True Story of AuditBoard - Battery Ventures
Talks about Battery Ventures, Audit Board acquisition and risk and compliance software
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Michael Brown
General Partner at Battery Ventures
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Michael Brown is a General Partner at Battery Ventures in Boston, Massachusetts, with a strong background in venture capital, corporate development, and private equity. Notable career highlights include serving on the boards of various successful companies like Vidyard, Mews, and ServiceTitan, and making strategic investments in a wide range of sectors including E-commerce, FinTech, and Consumer Internet.
Brown's impressive track record includes investments in companies like Next Insurance, RiskIQ, and ExactTarget, demonstrating his expertise in identifying and supporting high-growth startups through various funding rounds, from Series A to Series G.
Work Experience
General Partner
1998 - Current
Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm pursuing the most promising companies and entrepreneurs. 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 investments in enterprise-software, financial-services, e-Commerce and technology-enabled business-services companies.
Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.
Board Member
2022
Kojo is the leading construction materials management platform in the US.
Raised $83,620,000.00 from Bienville Capital, Schneider Electric, Battery Ventures, RXR Realty, AME Cloud Ventures, 8VC, Human Capital, Suffolk Technologies, Nine Four Ventures and BoxGroup.
Board Member
2022
Board Member
2021
Hummingbird is a technology company that provides solutions to enhance anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing investigations.
Raised $41,205,068.00 from William Hockey, Flourish Ventures, Homebrew, Fin Capital and Battery Ventures.
Board Observer
2020
Board Member
2021
Board Observer
2020
NorthOne develops a banking app that focuses on delivering financial tools to small businesses.
Raised $90,291,570.00 from Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Operator Stack, Drew Brees, Battery Ventures, Tencent, Ruby Ventures, Next Play Capital, Don Griffith, Redpoint and Ferst Capital Partners - FCP.
Board Member
2020
Obie is an insurance company that specializes in rental property and landlord insurance services.
Raised $39,000,000.00 from Battery Ventures, GOS Capital, DivcoWest, MetaProp and Brick & Mortar Ventures.
Board Member
2019
CarNow is a messaging and digital retailing platform for automotive industry.
Raised $43,000,000.00 from Runway Growth Capital.
Board Member
2019
Education
BS
1990 - 1994
Investments
Latest Articles
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