Aaron Batalion
Venture Partner @ Lightspeed Venture Partners
San Francisco, United States
Aaron Batalion is a hacker, entrepreneur, public speaker, senior technology leader, and the co-founder and CTO of LivingSocial, an online marketplace that trades deals on various products and services. Prior to that, he worked at Blockbuster, RevolutionHealth, and HungryMachine. Batalion is a regular speaker on technology and entrepreneurship atconferences such as SxSW, Tech Cocktail, RailsConf, and more. He also invests in and advises startups on product, technology, and growth.Batalion received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Asian Studies, with a concentration in Japanese language and religion from Lehigh University.Aaron Batalion lives in San Francisco.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 25%
Last updated:
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Industries Aaron Batalion invests in
Stages Aaron Batalion invests in
Countries Aaron Batalion invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$2.4M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (38%)
- Apps 2 (25%)
- DIY 1 (13%)
- Beauty 1 (13%)
- EdTech 1 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (63%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
- Series A 1 (13%)
- Convertible Note 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| XMTP is an open, crypto-native communication protocol that connects communities, applications, and users. It was founded in 2021 and is based in Austin, Texas. | $20M / Series A / Aug 31, 2021 | ||
| MovieBot is the AI creative hub for gen-z video creators. Our mission is to empower creators to bring their ideas to life with interactive 3D movies. We envision a future where teenagers can create the next Avatar from their bedroom. MovieBot transforms your text into animated video instantly. Simply type a story topic and MovieBot will generate aninteractive 3D movie with talking characters based on your prompt. Every video is also a fully customizable 3D world that lets you modify your story, characters, environment, and cameras. Teleportal began as WiTag. | $100K / Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2017 | ||
| Back to the Roots offers gardening kits to grow organic and gourmet mushrooms at homes. Founded in 2009 by Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora as a 100% sustainable urban mushroom farm, BTTR has transformed into a company focused on bringing sustainable grow-at-home products into households. Their Grow-at-Home Mushroom Garden is completely indoors andcan grow up to 1lb of oyster mushrooms in as little as 10 days. They provide a simple, eco-friendly, and quick way to have fresh oyster mushrooms right in the kitchen. | $2M / Seed / Jun 10, 2015 | ||
| HONK is a roadside assistance platform that provides towing, flatbed towing, exotic car towing, and tire changes. | $1.8M / Seed / Nov 19, 2014 | ||
| Teachable (formerly Fedora) is changing education by making it easy to teach or sell courses online. Teacher entrepreneurs use Teachable to run their own courses work with almost half a million students online. In a matter of minutes, Teachable allows you to create a beautiful and powerful, payment-ready course from your own website without anytechnical knowledge. While many use Teachable for asynchronous video-based classes teachers have used it to sell books, services, offline-online classes, group coaching, tutoring and webinars. | $1M / Seed / Aug 01, 2014 | ||
| Our vision is to build the world’s most consumer-centric health & beauty products company.We want to completely reinvent the way our community learns about, purchases and enjoys health and beauty products. We’ll do this by developing, designing and testing products and services specifically tailored to our community's needs anddelivering on the promise of great customer service and a simple shopping experience. | $2.4M / Seed / Dec 14, 2013 | ||
| Shyp provides shipping services that range from picking-up the package to delivering it to the destination. It connects the package to USPS, FedEx, UPS, OnTrac, or other regional carriers - automatically figuring out the best carrier to use for each individual delivery. It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. | $2.1M / Seed / Sep 27, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets. It focuses on seed, early-stage, later-stage, expansion-stage, start-ups, growth companies, and incubation, and specializes in debt financing for start-ups and growth companies. Lightspeed Venture Partners invests in various sectors that include enterprise, consumer, big data, bitcoin, enterprise technology, cleantech, mobile, internet, financial technology, cloud solutions, e-commerce, storage, media, networking, energy, and software, software-as-a-service, information technology, biotechnology, and social.
Lightspeed Venture Partners Contacts
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Galym Imanbayev
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James Ephrati
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Justin Overdorff
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Michael Mignano
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What does Aaron Batalion invest in?
Aaron Batalion invests primarily in Software, Apps and DIY startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Aaron Batalion's check size?
Aaron Batalion typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.4M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Aaron Batalion participates in.
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When did Aaron Batalion last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Aaron Batalion closed in Aug 2021. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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