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Nate Leung

Sapphire Partners

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

    Sapphire Partners seeks to invest in top venture fund managers. We focus on early-stage venture funds, both established and emerging, in the US, Europe and Israel. As the LP arm of Sapphire Ventures, we invest out of an evergreen-like fund structure designed to provide our managers with access to long-term capital. We provide active, value-add support to our portfolio GPs through deep industry insights and expertise, data-driven performance benchmarks, thought leadership, and the leveraging of Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth services to our portfolio’s benefit.

  • Partner

    2019

  • Partner

    2019

2016 - 2018

  • Vice President

    2016 - 2018

    Industry Ventures manages over $3 billion and has structured flexible liquidity solutions for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and limited partners and helped pioneer a new market along the way. Worked on Partnership Holdings hybrid fund of funds focused on primary and secondary investments in venture capital funds, and direct co-investments in growth-stage companies.

2014 - 2016

  • Partnerships

    2014 - 2016

2013 - 2014

  • Operations

    2013 - 2014

2010 - 2011

  • Marketing and Operations

    2010 - 2011

    Portfolio

  • Associate

    2009 - 2011

  • Associate

    2007 - 2009

  • Research Assistant

    2006 - 2007