Battery Ventures Team

Chelsea focuses on investments in the software sector. She is particularly interested in vertically focused SaaS companies, including the healthcare vertical. Chelsea serves on the boards of ContinuumCloud, Curve Dental, Maxio, Ontra (formerly InCloudCounsel), PageUp and Redox, and she is an investor in Honeybook. Her previous investments include Avalara (NYSE: AVLR), Brightree (acquired by ResMed), ClearCare (acquired by Wellsky), Data Innovations (acquired by Roper Industries), Glassdoor (acquired by Recruit Holdings), Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE), Intacct (acquired by Sage), Marketo (NASDAQ: MKTO, acquired by Vista Equity Partners), RealPage (NASDAQ: RP) and WebPT (acquired by Warburg Pincus). In 2013, Chelsea was named to the Forbes Midas “Hot Prospects” list of up-and-coming venture capitalists, and in 2018 she was included on Business Insider’s 23 Top Venture Capitalists in Enterprise Tech list. Prior to Battery, she was an associate at the private equity firm Key Principal Partners. Earlier in her career, Chelsea was a manager at Accenture and she also has held positions with Merrill Lynch and with Classified Ventures. She received a BS with honors in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She also currently sits on the Northwestern University Engineering School Board, as well as the University of Chicago Booth School Private Equity Council. Currently Chelsea serves on the Healthcare Technology Advisory Council for the Cleveland Clinic.