Chelsea Stoner, general partner of Battery Ventures, focuses on investments in the software and healthcare-IT sectors. 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 also has held positions with Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and with Classified Ventures. She serves on the boards of Avalara, Curve Dental, PageUp, InCloud Council, and Redox. Her previous investments include Brightree, Data Innovations, Glassdoor, Groupon, Guidewire, Intacct, Marketo, Practice Fusion, RealPage, WebPT, and ClearCare.

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.

She received a BS with honors in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Chicago Booth. She also currently sits on the Northwestern University Engineering School Board and serves on the Healthcare Technology Advisory Council for the Cleveland Clinic.