Zack Smotherman

Partner at Battery Ventures

Zack joined Battery in 2013 as a vice president and was promoted to partner in 2020. He focuses on later-stage, buyout investments in industrial technology. Zack is currently involved with a number of Battery’s acquisitive industrial technology platforms, including Audio Precision/GRAS, Physical Property Testing (PPT), Process Sensing Technologies (PST), Noise & Vibration Technologies (NVT), SPT Labtech and Qognify; as well as a growth investment in Robotiq.

Prior to Battery, Zack was an associate at WestView Capital Partners, where he evaluated and executed middle-market buyout and recapitalization transactions across the tech-enabled services and software sectors. Zack began his career in the investment banking group at Avondale Partners.

Zack graduated from Tufts University with a BS in economics. He also holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.


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Battery Ventures is a global, technology-focused investment firm pursuing the most prominent companies and ideas. Founded in 1983, our firm makes venture-capital and private equity investments from six offices around the world. We work hard, but humbly, and are guided by data-driven processes. We seek out extraordinary business leaders who operate the same way.


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