Jai is President, Partner and Co-Founder at Sapphire Ventures. He invests in startups that he believes are developing ground-breaking products and are on their way to becoming Companies of Consequence. He has more than 15 years of investment experience and has helped multiple companies innovate their product and marketing strategies in order to become market leaders. Jai’s current investments include Rain, Glean, Cohesity, Huntress, ThoughtSpot, Defense Unicorns, CircleCI, DataRobot, JumpCloud, Simpplr, Blockdaemon, and UJET. More than fifteen of his investments have IPO’ed, including Netskope, MuleSoft, Jfrog, Five9, Nutanix, Alteryx, Square, ExactTarget, Apigee, Box, and SumoLogic, while twenty-four of his investments have been acquired.
He is often sought out by media such as The Information, Business Insider, TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal for his expert commentary around AI and enterprise tech trends, as well as the evolving VC landscape as it pertains to growth-stage companies. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, having spoken at WSJ Tech Live, Fortune Brainstorm Tech and TechCrunch Disrupt.
Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures in 2006, Jai worked at Oracle, Intel Capital, Agilent Ventures, and MVC Capital. Jai has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and an MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He was born in Kolkata, India.
