Battery Ventures Monthly Digest: December 2022

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As you'll see below, the past month was a busy one for the Battery team, as we issued our annual State of the OpenCloud report and hosted our annual OpenCloud event in San Francisco at the Chase Center.

Special thanks to this year's OpenCloud speakers for sharing their valuable insights with our audience.

• Scott Johnston, CEO of Docker, Inc
• Ashutosh Kulkarni, CEO of Elastic
• Dave Merkel, CEO of Expel
• Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub
• Sydney Carey, CFO of Talkdesk
• Girish Pancha, CEO of StreamSets Inc.
• Chris Degnan, CRO of Snowflake
• Aparna Dhinakaran, co-founder and CPO of Arize AI
• Jeff Yoshimura, CMO of Snyk

We are delighted to announce that Barak Schoster, former CTO and co-founder of Bridgecrew*, has joined the Battery team as a venture partner. Barak is based in our Israel office and will fund companies with global reach.

Principal Brandon Gleklen hosted a SaaStr Workshop Wednesday session on the "Fall of the Metric Monolith."

Business Development Partner Scott Goering spoke with Nathan Eddy of ITPro Today to discuss key findings from our 2022 State of Cloud Software Spending report.

Vice President Courtney Chow was named to the 2023 Forbes 30 under 30 Venture Capital list.**

We are at a historic market inflection point, according to Battery General Partner Dharmesh Thakker, in his latest blog post exploring how cloud computing is the next frontier of innovation.

Battery portfolio companies are hiring for remote and in-person positions, including sales, engineering, HR, marketing and more.

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*Denotes a Battery portfolio company. For a full list of all Battery investments, please click here.

**Forbes Media LLC ("Forbes"), an independent third party not associated with Battery Ventures, issued this award. While Battery Ventures submitted a nomination on behalf of a selection of its personnel, Battery Ventures did not pay a fee in connection with submitting its application. This recognition is not indicative of future performance and was not based on evaluations of clients or limited partners of Battery Ventures. The award noted above is solely the opinion of the party conferring the award.