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 investments include Netskope, Glean, ThoughtSpot, Defense Unicorns, Clari, CircleCI, DataRobot, JumpCloud, Simpplr, Blockdaemon, and UJET. Fourteen of his investments have IPO’ed, including MuleSoft, Jfrog, Five9, Nutanix, Alteryx, Square, ExactTarget, Apigee, Box, and SumoLogic, while 24 have been acquired.

He is often sought out by media including publications such as Business Insider, Bloomberg, TechCrunch and the Wall Street Journal for his expert commentary around enterprise tech trends, including AI as a platform shift and its impact on B2B SaaS, and the evolving VC landscape as it pertains to growth-stage companies. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, having most recently spoken at Collision Conference, 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.