Battery Ventures Monthly Digest: March 2024

Welcome back to another Battery Monthly Digest! We were busy in February, from hosting Fortune 500 technologists and digital builders at our Battery Collective Retreat in Napa, to gathering visionary founders and CEOs from the New York AI ecosystem for a happy hour. Check out some of our highlights below.

Live, from San Francisco! 🌉 General Partner Dharmesh Thakker joined Bloomberg Technology’s VC Spotlight with Edward Ludlow and Caroline Hyde to discuss the promising avenues for AI investment and advancement. Check out the full segment below.

We are honored to be recognized as one of the Top Growth Equity Firms of 2023 by GrowthCap* and are grateful for our continued partnership with our dedicated portfolio companies.

How ‘unhinged’ is your marketing strategy? Perhaps not unhinged enough, according to Inc. Magazine ’s breakdown of our State of Marketplaces report, from Roger Lee , Courtney Z. Chow and Isabel von Stauffenberg , which weighs the pros and cons of pushing boundaries.

There is still ample opportunity for digital marketplaces to grow, as Vice President Courtney Z. Chow discussed on Cheddar Opening Bell, live from the floor of the NYSE.

AI will be key to driving growth for software companies in 2024, per Alex Wilhelm in a TechCrunch story citing our 2023 State of the OpenCloud report prediction that growth levels would stabilize.

Principal Danel Dayan spoke with Runtime ’s Tom Krazit for a story on the future of observability tools. Per Danel, as the data layer becomes more commoditized, these tools will be able to capture more and more data, radically increasing user visibility into how applications are performing.

Considering repricing employee stock options? Check out the latest Condensing the Cloud Substack post from General Partner Dharmesh Thakker and Vice President Jason Mendel on how to think about decisions regarding employee incentives in the current market environment.

Principal Brandon Gleklen joined the Collective Intelligence AI Podcast to discuss all things AI, from the necessity (or lack thereof) of AI moats, the optimal balance between copilot AI and full automation, the transformative impact of AI on healthcare and more.

Season 2 of “Sound Bites” with Bill Binch , the podcast series on best practices in sales, marketing and go-to-market strategy is here! Check out our first episode, featuring Carilu Dietrich , the marketing expert who led the function at Atlassian through the company’s IPO, below.

* GrowthCap, an independent third party not associated with Battery Ventures, issued this award. This recognition is not indicative of future performance and is solely the opinion of the party conferring the award.

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