About Battery Ventures
Since 1983, Battery has been investing in technology and innovation worldwide. The firm partners with entrepreneurs and management teams across technology sectors, geographies and stages of a company’s life, from start-up and expansion financing, to growth equity and buyouts.
Battery has supported many breakthrough companies around the world, including: Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM), Cbeyond (NASDAQ: CBEY), LIFFE (acquired by EuroNext), Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR), ProfitLogic (acquired by Oracle), and Suppliermarket.com (acquired by Ariba). Its current portfolio includes such emerging firms: A Place for Mom, Angie’s List, Bazaarvoice, Fingerhut, Serena & Lily, TradeKing, Trial Pay and World Golf Tour.
http://www.battery.com/index.html
About Illinois Ventures
IllinoisVENTURES is a premier seed and early-stage technology investment firm focused on research-derived companies in information technologies, physical sciences, life sciences and clean technology. We start and build globally-competitive businesses based on work conducted at Midwest Universities and federal laboratories. We bring together leading researchers and entrepreneurs to mold concepts, vision, intellectual property, sweat and passion into breakthrough, high-growth companies. Conceived and launched by the University of Illinois, we have been consistently named by Entrepreneur magazine to its national list of the top 100 venture capital firms.
http://www.illinoisventures.com/