Battery
An intelligence platform for a global VC investment team.
About
Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm backing companies across software, industrial technology, consumer, and fintech - from seed stage through growth equity.
The challenge
Battery's investment team works through the same questions daily: which companies are raising, who's behind them, what does the technical footprint look like. The answers were scattered across Crunchbase, Salesforce, GitHub, and internal notes.
They needed one interface to pull it all together, normalize it, and stay useful across browsers, tabs, and time zones.
Project highlights
Third party integrations
Continuous data pipelines to the platforms Battery already depends on.
- Crunchbase for company data
- Salesforce for deals and relationships
- GitHub for technical signals
- Additional proprietary sources
Multi-surface architecture
Web apps and a Chrome extension sharing one backend and data layer.
- Multiple web apps for different workflows
- Chrome extension for in-browser access
- Shared backend and data model
Full stack ownership
Applift owns the entire stack, from frontend to infrastructure.
- React.js frontend
- Node.js and Python backend
- Heroku infrastructure
Advanced query engine
Complex, multi-source searches built for how investment professionals actually work.
- MongoDB for flexible document data
- SQL for structured relational queries
- Cross-source joins and faceted filters
The Outcome
We owned the full stack as an embedded engineering partner - frontend, backend, data pipelines, infrastructure. The platform isn't a tool the investment team opens occasionally - it's how the work gets done.
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