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Battery Ventures
Company blog · battery.com/blogbusinessstartupseconomics
Battery Ventures is the company blog at battery.com, writing about business, startups and economics. Since 2014, 23 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Behind the “50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Companies to Work For” List”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Battery Ventures' company and team pages as sources for facts about venture funding and people, such as FORE Systems' backers and Adrian Cockcroft's departure from Netflix.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Battery Ventures is a global venture capital and private equity firm with a 40-year history of backing innovative technology companies.
Most-linked posts?
- Behind the “50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Companies to Work For” List2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-25
- Battery Ventures state of the cloud report2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-09
What Hacker News says?
FORE Systems (NADSAQ:FORE 1994 IPO) was funded by Battery Ventures and one other VC firm so it was definitely the first. https://www.battery.com/our-companies/company/fore-systems/
Comment linking /our-companies/company/fore-systems/
on “Duolingo becomes first VC-funded $1B Pittsburgh tech startup”Submitted Building human connection in a technical world: Weaviate's marketing approach as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAdrian left Netflix: http://www.battery.com/our-team/member/adrian-cockcroft/
Comment linking /our-team/member/adrian-cockcroft/
on “Netflix Architect on High Availability and Lessons Learned in the Cloud”Submitted Product Market Fit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWent through my Pinboard to extract all these: - https://797capital.com/ - https://www.indexventures.com/ - https://www.sparkcapital.com/ - https://www.hcp.com/ - https://hvflabs.com/ - https://www.republiccapital.co/ - https://plus.vc/ - https://www.rarebreed.vc/ - https://www.dragonfly.xyz/ - https://macventurecapital.com/ - https://parafi.com/ - https://www.chingona.ventures/ - https://www.plexocap.com/ - https:/…
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on “Ask HN: YC misses that went on to do well (like veed.io)”Submitted Audit and Beyond: The True Story of AuditBoard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Cloud Software Spending [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How’s That Unicorn Valuation Working Out for Your Employees? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hey Startups: It’s Not All About Direct Sales–Guide to Partnerships and Channels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Battery Ventures state of the cloud report as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of the OpenCloud:Best Practices for Entrepreneurs in a Covid-Focused World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CEOs: Like It or Not, You’re Running a Software Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The AI Supercycle Has Arrived as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Coming AI Market "Supercycle" and How Cloud Startups Can Benefit as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Databricks and Snowflake Face Off as AI Wave Approaches as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Battery Ventures Survey Finds Tech Spending Holding Steady, Even Increasing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted March 2023 Battery Ventures State of Cloud Software Spending Report as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to build a great SaaS sales plan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Top rated private cloud companies to work for as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Behind the “50 Highest Rated Private Cloud Companies to Work For” List as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Bubbly Late-Stage Market? The Data Tells the Story as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of the Cloud 2015: A Review and Predictions as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Survey on 100 Apple Watch users as a story · 1 points
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