Battery Ventures ups the ante, raising $1.25 billion across two new funds

Battery Ventures ups the ante, raising $1.25 billion across two new funds

Battery Ventures is a 35-year-old, global investment firm that tends to keep its nose down. Its bench of 10 general partners have mostly been operating quietly in the business for many years if not decades, yet none are household names. Partly, that owes to the fact that Battery prefers to promote from within — often after …