Michael Brown

General Partner at Battery Ventures

📍 Waltham, Massachusetts, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 34 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
VC🌍 United States20+ investments
34
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Board Member
2026
Warp is the AI-native employee management platform for ambitious companies. Payroll, compliance, benefits, and IT that handle themselves — so founders keep building and HR focuses on people. Warps AI agents handle state registrations, tax filings, and compliance notices automatically across all 50 states. No portals. No paperwork. No busywork. Warp Fabric brings IT into the same platform: Google Workspace provisioning, Okta SSO across 6,500+ apps, and device management built natively in Rust. One hire provisions everything. One termination revokes it all. Same transaction. Thousands of companies trust Warp to run their people operations. Backed by $85M+ from Battery Ventures, Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, and the founders of Shopify, Dropbox, and more. Were hiring: warp.co/careers
Board Observer
2026
Miter is how construction and field service contractors manage their workforce, field operations, and spend in one place. Our platform connects people, projects, and payments, enabling contractors to build with confidence.
Board Member
2026
Aalyria enables commercial and government customers to operate resilient, high-throughput networks in motion. Aalyria brings together two technologies originally developed at Alphabet: 1) Tightbeam - Proven ultra-high-speed Free Space Optical Communication capability 2) Spacetime - A managed PaaS for developers to orchestrate networks in motion It is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including the founders of Accel and J2 Ventures.
Board Observer
2025
The operating system for modern command. With Onebrief, leaders can enable a superhuman command: one that makes brilliant decisions, scales output, and is optimally efficient. Currently live on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. Learn more at onebrief.com
Board Observer
2024
Second Front is a public-benefit, venture-backed company delivering mission-critical software to the world’s democracies. We work with organizations to simplify and accelerate every step of software delivery to government and regulated networks, including development, accreditation, operation, and extensibility. Together with our customers and partners, were powering software for the free world. Learn more at secondfront.com
Board Member
2022
Cube is the first spreadsheet-native FP&A platform that focuses on meeting strategic finance teams where they already live and enhancing the workflows they use every day. By pairing the ease and familiarity of Excel & Google Sheets with the structure of a purpose-built FP&A platform, Cube helps companies of all sizes plan and analyze for the unexpected and stay ahead of changes. To learn more, visit cubesoftware.com. Subscribe to the Finance Fix: https://www.cubesoftware.com/finance-fix-newsletter
Board Member
2022
Kojo is the leading materials procurement platform for trade and self-perform general contractors. By connecting office teams, field crews, the warehouse, and vendors on one all-inclusive procurement platform, contractors control their procurement process from takeoff to closeout, saving on material costs, reducing waste, and increasing productivity.
Board Member
Jan 2021
Shippeo is a global leader in real-time multimodal transportation visibility, enabling leading shippers and logistics service providers to build more resilient, sustainable, and customer-centric supply chains. By enabling Transport Process Automation™ , Shippeo streamlines transportation processes, optimizes logistics costs, and enhances customer experience. Its network integrates with over 228,000 carriers and 1,100 TMS, telematics and ELD systems, offering instant access to real-time tracking for all transport modes via an intuitive platform. A machine learning algorithm ensures unmatched shipment ETA accuracy, allowing businesses to anticipate issues, proactively manage exceptions, collaborate efficiently, and reduce transport-related greenhouse gas emissions. Hundreds of customers, including global brands such as Ahold Delhaize, AkzoNobel, Barilla, Coca-Cola HBC, Heineken, Kuehne+Nagel, L’Oréal, LVMH, Renault Group, and Saint-Gobain, trust Shippeo to track more than 90 million shipments annually across 150 countries. For more information, visit www.shippeo.com
Board Member
2021
Hummingbird gives the people fighting financial crimes superpowers. Our service is designed to enhance anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing investigations. It reduces cumbersome paperwork, provides insightful analytics, and enables collaboration for compliance professionals and law enforcement agents. We’re on a mission to turn the tables against criminals who pollute our financial system. Modern criminals are sophisticated, tech-savvy, and agile. The tools used to fight financial crimes should be, too.
Board Observer
Nov 2020
The needs of business owners have significantly changed over the past decade, the insurance industry hasn’t. When you’re running your own business, you’re placing a huge bet on yourself. Your ideas, your passion, your blood, sweat and tears define your success. Next Insurance was created to give your business the coverage it deserves. Simple, affordable and tailored. So no matter what you do, no matter how you define success, we’re right there, next to you. 100% dedicated to the self-employed, 100% how insurance should be.
Board Observer
2020
From construction workers to barbers, mechanics to restaurant owners, NorthOne was built to solve big problems for the small businesses on main streets across America. By connecting all the dots of the financial back office, we can transform the bank account from a basic utility to a financial platform that gives our customers a greater shot at success. ▪️ Founded in 2016 by Eytan Bensoussan and Justin Adler ▪️ Trusted by 320,000+ small businesses ▪️ 50+ employees strong & counting ▪️ $90.3 million raised with investors including Battery Ventures, Don Griffith, Drew Brees, Ferst Capital Partners, FinTLV, Next Play Capital, Operator Stack, Redpoint Ventures, Ruby Ventures, Tencent, and Tom Williams If youre interested in joining the NorthOne team, please apply directly through our careers page at https://boards.greenhouse.io/northone NorthOne is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services provided by The Bancorp Bank, N.A., Member FDIC.
Board Member
2020
Meet the new standard in landlord insurance. Obie is an insurance technology solution designed exclusively to meet the needs of the modern real estate investor. With Obie, you can request a quote in under 5 minutes–meaning no more tedious paperwork and lengthy wait times.
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Board Member
2019
CarNow is a live-data automotive technology platform that helps dealers elevate the car-buying experience by transforming the way they connect with customers.
Board Member
2019
An innovative hospitality management cloud that empowers the modern hotelier to improve performance, maximize revenue, and provide remarkable guest experiences.
Board Member
2018
MX Technologies, Inc. is a leader in actionable intelligence, enabling financial providers and consumers to do more with financial data. MX provides end-to-end solutions for financial institutions and fintechs to connect to, understand, and act on customers’ financial data.
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2026
Board Member
2026
Warp is the AI-native employee management platform for ambitious companies. Payroll, compliance, benefits, and IT that handle themselves — so founders keep building and HR focuses on people. Warps AI agents handle state registrations, tax filings, and compliance notices automatically across all 50 states. No portals. No paperwork. No busywork. Warp Fabric brings IT into the same platform: Google Workspace provisioning, Okta SSO across 6,500+ apps, and device management built natively in Rust. One hire provisions everything. One termination revokes it all. Same transaction. Thousands of companies trust Warp to run their people operations. Backed by $85M+ from Battery Ventures, Sound Ventures, Y Combinator, and the founders of Shopify, Dropbox, and more. Were hiring: warp.co/careers
Board Observer
2026
Miter is how construction and field service contractors manage their workforce, field operations, and spend in one place. Our platform connects people, projects, and payments, enabling contractors to build with confidence.
Board Member
2026
Aalyria enables commercial and government customers to operate resilient, high-throughput networks in motion. Aalyria brings together two technologies originally developed at Alphabet: 1) Tightbeam - Proven ultra-high-speed Free Space Optical Communication capability 2) Spacetime - A managed PaaS for developers to orchestrate networks in motion It is backed by leading Silicon Valley investors including the founders of Accel and J2 Ventures.
2025
Board Observer
2025
The operating system for modern command. With Onebrief, leaders can enable a superhuman command: one that makes brilliant decisions, scales output, and is optimally efficient. Currently live on NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. Learn more at onebrief.com
2024
Board Observer
2024
Second Front is a public-benefit, venture-backed company delivering mission-critical software to the world’s democracies. We work with organizations to simplify and accelerate every step of software delivery to government and regulated networks, including development, accreditation, operation, and extensibility. Together with our customers and partners, were powering software for the free world. Learn more at secondfront.com
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