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Spencer Kimball is a Managing Partner at Battery Ventures, a global venture capital firm managing over $16 billion in assets, based in San Francisco, California. Before transitioning to venture capital, he co-founded Cockroach Labs, a distributed database company that completed an initial public offering in 2025 before being acquired by Snowflake later that year. His earlier technical career includes foundational engineering roles at Google and Oracle, following his computer science studies at Stanford University. In his current investment capacity, Kimball recently led a $50 million Series B funding round for the artificial intelligence database startup Timescale in March 2026. His broader portfolio features prominent developer tools and infrastructure startups, including Vercel and Supabase. Kimball leverages his extensive engineering background to focus on early-stage investments across enterprise software, artificial intelligence infrastructure, and cloud computing.
