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Jake Saper

General Partner @ Emergence || We partner with founders who change the way the world works.

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $4,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $20,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $10,000,000.00

Skills

Venture Capital
Start-ups
Strategy
Business Strategy
Management Consulting
Financial Modeling
Business Development
Corporate Development
Private Equity
Cleantech
Renewable Energy
Emerging Markets
Strategic Planning
Mergers & Acquisitions
Energy
Restructuring
Singing
Solar Energy
Entrepreneurship
SaaS

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2014

    Emergence Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on the business cloud. We have ~$2B in AUM, and our investments include Salesforce, Veeva, Gusto, Box, Bill.com, Doximity, and Zoom.

  • Board Director

    2023

    Mechanical Orchard is using GenAI to modernize mission-critical applications still stuck in mainframes.

  • Board Director

    2021

    Regal is an event-driven phone and SMS sales solution driving an average revenue lift of 25% for their customers.

2021

  • Board Director

    2021

    Maze is a rapid remote testing platform allowing anyone that touches product development to quickly gather and collaborate on user feedback. It's a prime example of the next generation of Deep Collaboration companies.

  • Board Director

    2020

    Assembled is the operations platform for modern support teams.

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Ironclad is ushering in the new era of digital contracting, allowing for Deep Collaboration on contracting within and between companies.

  • Board Director

    2017

    Guru is building a Coaching Network providing customer-facing teams the knowledge they need, when and where they need it.

2019

  • Board Director

    2019

    Vymo is building a Coaching Network enabling sales teams in financial services to become Trusted Advisors to their clients.

2016

  • Board Observer

    2016

    Textio is a machine learning-enabled augmented writing platform. We make the words you write have the impact you want.

  • Board Observer

    2015

    DroneDeploy is putting drones to work in the resources sectors and beyond.