Nino is responsible for the overall investment strategy, execution, operations and performance of Sapphire Ventures. After more than 20 years in various investing and operating capacities, Nino has participated in investments in more than 100 private companies and has held numerous board seats. Currently, he is a board director/observer at Integral Ad Science, OpenX, OpsRamp and Reltio. He is furthermore closely involved with investments in Alteryx (AYX), Box (BOX), Feedzai, iovation, MuleSoft (MULE), Scytl and Square (SQ).
Before Sapphire Ventures, Nino was a partner with meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson and IVF Ventures. Prior to venture capital, Nino worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Robertson Stephens. He has a BA in economics and psychology from Williams College and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Nino was born in Croatia, and has also lived in Austria, Italy and Germany before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 20 years ago.
Exits and IPOs
- Alteryx (AYX)
- Apriso (acquired by Dassault Systèmes)
- Box (BOX)
- Criteo (CRTO)
- DSSD (acquired by EMC)
- Endeca (acquired by Oracle)
- Inkling (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners)
- Krux (acquired by Salesforce)
- LinkedIn (LNKD)
- Marin Software (MRIN)
- MuleSoft (MULE)
- NextPrinciples (acquired by Insightpool)
- Payscale (acquired by Warburg Pincus)
- Right Hemisphere (acquired by SAP)
- Recommind (acquired by OpenText)
- ScaleIO (acquired by EMC)
- Square (SQ)
- Vendavo (acquired by Francisco Partners)
- Zend (acquired by Rogue Wave)