In an era of cloud-native applications, multi-cloud deployments, and AI-driven automation, digital identities have exploded in number and diversity. Every microservice, AI agent, MCP server, container, serverless function and script–not to mention traditional servers and applications–acts as its own “identity” within an organization’s infrastructure. But this proliferation of non-human identities (NHI) presents a looming cybersecurity… Continue reading The Best Way to Keep a Secre...| Battery Ventures
In 2024, we wrote a blog post detailing a few major AI trends we were seeing in the legal space. After decades of slow tech adoption, it was clear that the legal industry was going to be proactive in adopting AI solutions. In a crowded landscape, we’ve looked for companies rethinking the most complex and… Continue reading Judicial Intelligence for High-Stakes Litigation: Why We’re Backing Bench IQ| Battery Ventures
In July 2025, OpenAI competed in the International Math Olympiad — and won gold. They did it not by memorizing past problems, but by reasoning step-by-step like human contestants. A month later, OpenAI competed in the analogous coding competition, the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) – and secured gold again. And they won with the… Continue reading From LLM Wrappers to RL Sculptors: The Dawn of Reasoning AI| Battery Ventures
The tech world has been buzzing this summer over the new wave of giant, AI acquihire deals in which a large technology company—Google, OpenAI, Meta—spends billions to acquire a startup’s key executives, and often some intellectual property, but leaves the rest of the company behind. The most notable example is Windsurf. The promising AI company… Continue reading Kingdoms and Courts: The “Windsurf Effect” and How We Get Back to Normal in Tech M&A| Battery Ventures
Over the last decade, outbound sales followed a predictable formula. Companies hired more sales reps, bought more data, sent more emails and made more cold calls. And for a while, it worked. Tools like ZoomInfo, Apollo, Outreach and Salesloft were successful in helping go-to-market (GTM) teams scale outreach through automation and volume. But as channels… Continue reading Outbound is Broken — and Why We’re Excited About Unifying the Sales Workflow| Battery Ventures
How are enterprise tech buyers deploying budgets right now in this turbulent economy? Has the promise of AI finally started to live up to the hype? Our latest State of Enterprise Tech Spending report provides some insights. As in previous quarters, we surveyed 100 CXOs who collectively represent over $35 billion in annual technology spending.… Continue reading Survey Says: Tech Spending Slows Slightly, AI Tops CXO Priority List| Battery Ventures
Today’s financial advisors are operating in a dramatically shifting market. Consolidation and competition have changed firm dynamics as advisors try to provide more comprehensive wealth-management services to their clients, often leaving small advisors squeezed. At the same time, there’s huge promise and opportunity related to the fact that, over the next two decades, Baby Boomers… Continue reading Jumping Ahead: Revolutionizing Financial Advisory with AI-Powered Client Intelligence| Battery Ventures
