Brett Battles
Venture Partner at AV8 Ventures
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and CEO
2009 - Current
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
Venture Partner
2018
Early stage entrepreneur and investor
AV8 Ventures is an early stage investor in enterprise software, fintech & insurtech, and biotech & healthcare companies.
Member Board Of Directors
2017
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula is a nonprofit organization that offers programs and training to achieve school success.
Member Board of Directors
2016
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.
Draftsman
2017
A platform to help provide awareness, education, and opportunity for tomorrow’s "middle skills" workforce
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.
Dir, Product Management and Product Marketing
2004 - 2009
• Launched and led product management, product marketing and sales enablement teams for the OEM division of NetApp; grew business from zero to $200M in revenue over 3 years • Led storage product management and product marketing for disk sub-systems hardware and software, responsible for nearly $1B in product sales and full product lifecycle ownership (roadmaps, PRDs, product launches, pricing, competitive analysis and position, marketing collateral and tools, customer presentations). Key areas of leadership included: • creating compelling product roadmaps and delivering customer-centric PRDs and award winning products • building thought leadership around enterprise storage challenges via white papers, ROI tools, analyst sponsored research, executive leadership briefings and customer-listening tours • managing pricing, competitive positioning and go to market strategies for storage products
NetApp specializes in data storage, data infrastructure, and data management solutions.
Mentor Chair - 2009
2008 - 2008
Cleantech Open Midwest is a division within the larger Cleantech Open network that accelerates start-up businesses.
General Partner
2001 - 2004
$50M under management early stage VC (one of two GPs). Successfully raised $25M fund from institutional investors and family foundations. Investment focus: Series A/B SaaS and data aggregation Board seats included CapitalThinking and Angara eCommerce Systems