Brett Battles
Venture Partner at AV8 Ventures
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Director
2025 - Current
Glow is an insurance company that aims to transform insurance to better protect people.
Raised $28,500,000.00 from Maiden Holdings, Cota Capital, Freestyle Capital, AV8 Ventures, North West Quadrant Ventures ( NWQ Ventures), Startup Capital Ventures and Markd.
Director
2025
CoverTree is an InsurTech company that specializes in manufactured home insurance solutions.
Raised $23,000,000.00 from AV8 Ventures, Detroit Venture Partners, Portage Ventures, Distributed Ventures, Ludlow Ventures and Annox Capital.
Director
2025
Digital E&S Homeowners
Founder and CEO
2009
The world's largest hardlines retailers and brands increase sales conversions by up to 15% using EcoRebates to power offer-driven commerce. Our award-winning SaaS and big-data platform aggregates thousands of hard-to-find offers and incentives for millions of SKUs providing real-time offer targeting based on location and fine-grain product attributes. Cloud-hosted (AWS) with a Tier 1 high-availability architecture and servicing nearly 1 Billion monthly queries, clients can choose APIs, responsive JS widgets or batch feed models for deploying the solution. Successfully built the company from the ground up to multi-million dollar ARR and highly profitable. Key highlights as CEO include: • Guiding product/market fit with enterprise customers • Designing the initial product – a SaaS and data aggregation platform • Developing and executing product positioning, value propositions, ROI models, sales tools, and outbound lead generation campaigns • Building and implementing inside sales and social selling methodologies • Managing sales pipeline and personally closing most of the company’s enterprise deals with some of the industry’s best known brands (i.e., Lowes, Home Depot, Best Buy, GE, Whirlpool, LG, Samsung) • Building a customer success culture of “whatever it takes” to create incredibly satisfied customers Learn more at: http://www.ecorebates.com
SKU-based offer aggregation, management and digital fulfillment for leading brands and retailers
Partner
2018
Early stage entrepreneur and investor
AV8 Ventures is an early stage investor in enterprise software, fintech & insurtech, and biotech & healthcare companies.
Draftsman
2017
A platform to help provide awareness, education, and opportunity for tomorrow’s "middle skills" workforce
Member Board Of Directors
2017 - 2025
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula is a nonprofit organization that offers programs and training to achieve school success.
Member Board of Directors
2016 - 2025
The Kilgoris Project partners with the local community to educate and feed the children of a Maasai village in southwest Kenya. We work hand-in-hand with local leaders and families to operate schools, provide daily food and clean water, and foster economic development.
Board Advisor
2020 - 2022
Contract Wrangler is a developer of an enterprise SaaS software intended to deliver actionable insights from corporate contracts.
Raised $11,483,603.00 from SAP.iO and Founder Friendly Labs.
Board Advisor
2019 - 2020
Locomation develops safe and reliable autonomous trucking solutions.
Raised $57,023,032.00 from Proeza Ventures, AV8 Ventures, Sahin Boydas, ScaleX Ventures, Blackhorn Ventures and Draper Triangle.