Battery Ventures acquires Forest2Market and Fisher International
Summary
Battery Ventures has acquired two companies: Charlotte, North Carolina-based Forest2Market Inc, a firm supplying data, analytics, supply chain expertise and strategic consulting services to the global forest products industry; and South Norwalk, Connecticut-based Fisher International Inc, a provider of business intelligence and strategy consulting services to the pulp and paper industry. Welu and Battery’s Dave Tabors will join Peter J. Stewart, founder and CEO of Forest2Market, on the board of directors. We believe this will create powerful new products and services and provide unprecedented global data-driven insight to our customers,” said Stewart. The Forest2Market’s unique databases contain more than 400 million rows of transaction data; they are the foundation for all analytics available in the firm’s business intelligence platform, SilvaStat360, as well as client resource studies and consulting engagements. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to private equity and invests globally from offices in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, London, Israel and New York.