Venture Fund Member Profile
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Battery is typically the lead institutional investor in each of our portfolio companies. We invest in companies at all stages of growth from seed to later stage and tech buyouts. Our investments range from $5 million to $25 million over the life of the investment and we focus on market sectors where we have the experience and knowledge to help build category-defining companies. These markets include infrastructure technologies such as cable infrastructure, network & wireless infrastructure, security software & services and computing & storage infrastructure; application software; communications services; e-commerce products & services; tech enabled businesses; semiconductor & related products; media & content and consumer technology. Additionally, emerging market sectors in which we have a developing interest include the energy, materials and tech-enabled business services markets.
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Kara Nortman Senior Associate Battery Ventures |
Kara has been with Battery since 1999, taking a break from 2002 to 2004 to pursue an MBA. She currently focuses on investments in the Internet and new media sectors. She sits on the board of Blue Flame Data, is actively involved with The NewsMarket and Spot Runner, and held a board position with The Loan Page, which was acquired by HouseValues (Nasdaq: SOLD). During her initial four years at Battery, Kara focused on the communications sector, including investments in EnvoyWorldWide, Kashya, Looking Glass Networks, and Cbeyond Communications (Nasdqaq: CBEY). Kara has held positions in Microsoft’s corporate development group, where she evaluated product strategies in the healthcare and mobile markets, and negotiated and structured a $35 million preferred investment.
Representative Investments
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Aurora Networks Aurora Networks is developing high-bandwidth cable and fiber optic transmission systems for use in advanced DWDM/Cable networks. Aurora's products will allow service providers to increase capacity for broadband services by pushing the active network components closer to the edge of the network and thereby reducing the number of homes that share the same central point of connection. |
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Nova Analytics Corporation Nova Analytics Corporation is a worldwide supplier and integrator of laboratory products and online process equipment. Nova's management team has over 100 years of combined experience in design, development, manufacturing and integration of laboratory products and services. Nova businesses include the Corning Life Science’s electrochemistry product line and WTW GmbH, a world leader in electrochemistry measurement. |
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Blue Flame Data Blue Flame Data provides unique insights into customer and employee preferences. Used by a growing number of FORTUNE 100 clients, Blue Flame’s TrueChoice™ Preference Technology Suite is based on novel econometric technologies that for the first time allow companies to precisely quantify the preference structures of individual customers and employees. |
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Tejas Tejas is focused on developing and selling leading edge optical networking products for worldwide customers. Tejas has developed software differentiated, next generation SDH/SONET products that enable telecommunication carriers to build converged networks that support traditional voice-based services as well as the new data dominated services. |
Kara participated in the FundingPost event: Perfect Venture Conference
on April 5-7, 2006 in NY, Sponsored by Merrill Lynch, Morrison & Foerster, PPS for Healthcare
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