Jordan Welu
Partner at Battery Ventures
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2025 - Current
Partner
2014 - 2025
At Battery, I focused on growth- and late-stage investments for enterprise software companies in vertical applications and infrastructure, including devops, security, middleware and networking. I helped lead investments in eight Battery Ventures portfolio companies: Alogent, CodeSecure, Concurrent Real-Time (acquired by Spectris), DomainTools, Enviance (acquired by Cority), Learnosity (acquired by Leeds Equity Partners), Plixer and ResourceWise.
Battery Ventures is a investment firm that focuses on technology.
VP, Corporate Development
2007 - 2014
Solely responsible for the creation and execution of Rogue Wave’s acquisition strategy, including sector evaluation, target identification, transaction negotiation, due diligence, transaction financing and business integration
SOA repository and governance vendor
Director, Finance
2005 - 2007
Webroot by OpenText is an anti-virus software that utilizes AI technology to provide endpoint protection.
Research Associate, Enterprise Application Software
2003 - 2005
Coverage included: Ascential Software, Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Documentum, E.piphany, FileNet, Hyperion Solutions, Informatica, JD Edwards, MapInfo, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Novell, Oracle, Palmsource, PeopleSoft, Pervasive Software, Red Hat, Siebel Systems, Sybase and salesforce.com.
Analyst, Mergers & Acquisitions
2000 - 2002
Sustainable Private Equity and Credit Investments
Education
BA
1994 - 1998
Foreign Study
1996 - 1997