Dharmesh Thakker is a general partner at Battery Ventures who joined the firm in 2015 after working as a chip designer, software executive and investor at Intel Capital. His current AI infrastructure investments at Battery include Databricks (valued at $188 billion in August 2026) as well as early investments in Gong, Baseten, Nexthop.ai, Clickhouse, Reflection AI and SambaNova. Past investments include MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), JFrog (NASDAQ: FROG); Confluent (NASDAQ: CFLT); Arize (acq: Dynatrace), Galileo (Cisco), Bridgecrew (Palo Alto Networks); and StreamSets (acquired by Software AG).