About Cathy
Cathy is a Partner at Sapphire Ventures. As a daughter of a software engineer and a small business owner, Cathy has been immersed in technology and entrepreneurship from an early age. She has experience investing at multiple stages, ranging from buyout to venture capital and has also sat on the other side of the table as a business operator. Her experiences have shaped her passion for deeply understanding business models and working hand-in-hand with entrepreneurs to help scale companies. Through investing, Cathy strives every day to express her core values of conviction, partnership, and passion.
For her work, she has been recognized by the Venture Capital Journal as a Rising Star and by Silicon Valley Business Journal as a Woman of Influence.
Prior to Sapphire, Cathy was an investor at AXA Venture Partners where she invested in enterprise software. She started her career at Blackstone and TA Associates and was an operator at Gusto, joining shortly after the Series B.
Cathy graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in economics and a minor in history. She is a history nerd and enjoys reading biographies in her spare time. Cathy is also a staunch advocate for women in technology and venture capital and is a proud member of AllRaise.
investments
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Gem’s modern recruiting platform helps businesses attract top talent through custom, automated outreach and gain insight into their candidate pipeline to improve hiring speed, quality, and diversity. Companies like Square, Twilio, Cisco, and Lyft are leveraging Gem to 5x their recruiting productivity.
CEO: Steven Bartel
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Medable is on a mission to get effective therapies to patients faster by transforming clinical drug development with disruptive technologies. The company’s digital platform streamlines design, recruitment, retention and data quality for decentralized trials, replacing siloed systems.
CEO: Dr. Michelle Longmire
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involve.ai is the first customer intelligence platform designed to help customer success and sales professionals unify all their customer data, predict who will churn and grow, and do it with accuracy using our early warning dashboard.
CEO: Gaurav Bhattacharya
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SafeGraph builds truth sets for physical places, powering analytics at organizations like Ares Management, Sysco, Goldman Sachs, Verizon Media and the CDC. SafeGraph’s high-precision places data covers business listings, building footprints, and aggregated foot traffic data for millions of points of interest (POI) and thousands of brands.
CEO: Auren Hoffman
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CaptivateIQ empowers revenue teams with the modern engine for commission management so that businesses can better adapt commission plans, workflows, and outcomes to changing business needs.
CEOs: Mark Schopmeyer + Conway Teng
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Paradox is building the world’s leading conversational recruiting software to drive automation with a human touch. Serving global clients with hiring needs across high-volume hourly and high-skilled professional roles, Paradox’s conversational assistant Olivia does the work talent teams don’t have time for.
CEO: Aaron Matos
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SWORD Health is the world’s fastest growing virtual musculoskeletal (MSK) care provider. It’s mission is to free two billion people from physical pain by delivering care to members through licensed Doctors of Physical Therapy and the FDA-listed SWORD Health Digital Therapist. Because SWORD’s care is clinically-proven and personalized, it is more effective and less expensive than the traditional gold standard of care, and has been third-party validated to deliver best-in-class clinical results and ROI.
CEO: Virgílio (“V”) Bento
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Splashtop Inc. delivers the best-in-class cross-screen productivity and collaboration experience, bridging smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, and clouds. Splashtop remote desktop enables people to access and control their favorite apps, files, and data via their mobile devices.
CEO: Mark Lee
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UJET empowers support organizations to create intelligent workflows, make data actionable, and create a modern business model where organizations have the tools and technology they need to create an immersive, engaging, and one-of-a-kind experience for their customers.
CEO: Anand J.
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Moveworks is the industry’s first autonomous AI platform for resolving IT issues in the enterprise.
CEO: Bhavin Shah
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Gorgias is a customer support helpdesk for ecommerce. It helps brands deliver an outstanding customer service experience by centralizing all customer interactions and automating responses to the most repetitive questions.
CEO: Romain Lapeyre
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CircleCI is the leading continuous integration and delivery platform for software innovation at scale. With intelligent automation and delivery tools, CircleCI is used by leading engineering teams to reduce the time from idea to execution.
CEO: Jim Rose
News + Perspectives
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Rise of the Digital Health Enablement Tech Stack: How Technology is Accelerating Innovation for Modern Care Delivery
Thought Leadership / September 20, 2022Rise of the Digital Health Enablement Tech Stack: How Technology is Accelerating Innovation for Modern Care Delivery
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Product-Led Growth (PLG) CRMs Emerge: Mapping the Market and our 2022 Predictions
Thought Leadership / February 10, 2022Product-Led Growth (PLG) CRMs Emerge: Mapping the Market and our 2022 Predictions
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Captivating Revenue Teams with Transparent Sales Commissions: Why We’re Excited to Partner with CaptivateIQ
Investment / January 26, 2022Captivating Revenue Teams with Transparent Sales Commissions: Why We’re Excited to Partner with CaptivateIQ