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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

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