JW

Jordan Welu

Managing Director at THL Partners

Boston, Massachusetts

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $60,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Director

    2025

2014 - 2025

  • Partner

    2014 - 2025

    At Battery, I focused on growth- and late-stage investments for enterprise software companies in vertical applications and infrastructure, including devops, security, middleware and networking. I helped lead investments in eight Battery Ventures portfolio companies: Alogent, CodeSecure, Concurrent Real-Time (acquired by Spectris), DomainTools, Enviance (acquired by Cority), Learnosity (acquired by Leeds Equity Partners), Plixer and ResourceWise.

2007 - 2014

  • VP, Corporate Development

    2007 - 2014

    Solely responsible for the creation and execution of Rogue Wave’s acquisition strategy, including sector evaluation, target identification, transaction negotiation, due diligence, transaction financing and business integration

2005 - 2007

  • Director, Finance

    2005 - 2007

  • Research Associate, Enterprise Application Software

    2003 - 2005

    Coverage included: Ascential Software, Brio, Business Objects, Cognos, Documentum, E.piphany, FileNet, Hyperion Solutions, Informatica, JD Edwards, MapInfo, Microsoft, Microstrategy, Novell, Oracle, Palmsource, PeopleSoft, Pervasive Software, Red Hat, Siebel Systems, Sybase and salesforce.com.

2000 - 2002

  • Analyst, Mergers & Acquisitions

    2000 - 2002