About Jai
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. 13 of his investments have IPO’ed while 17 have been acquired.
He is often sought out by media including publications such as Insider, Bloomberg and TechCrunch for his expert commentary around enterprise tech trends, the burgeoning crypto and blockchain ecosystem, navigating shifting market conditions and more. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, having most recently spoken on the topic of crypto at SuperVenture in Europe.
Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures in 2006, Jai worked at Oracle, Intel Capital, Agilent Ventures, and MVC Capital. He has a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University and an MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
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Alfresco is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise-class platform.
Acquired by THL Partners (2018)
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AllyO is an end-to-end AI recruiter that makes recruiting delightful and efficient with intelligent, automated and conversational engagement via text and webchat.
Acquired by HireVue (2020)
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Alteryx is the leader in self-service data analytics, providing analysts with the ability to easily prep, blend and analyze all of their data using a repeatable workflow, then deploy and share analytics at scale for deeper insights in hours, not weeks.
NYSE: AYXIPO 2017
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Apigee – a leading provider of API technology and services for enterprises and developers.
NASDAQ: APICAcquired by Google Cloud (2016)
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Blockdaemon is a leading independent blockchain node infrastructure to stake, scale, and deploy nodes with institutional-grade security and monitoring. Blockdaemon powers the blockchain economy by simplifying the process of deploying nodes and creating scalable enterprise blockchain solutions.
CEO: Konstantin Richter
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Box was officially in 2006 with the vision of connecting people, devices and networks. The Box platform allows personal and commercial content to be accessible, sharable, and storable in any format from anywhere.
NYSE: BOXIPO 2015
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Catchpoint is a leading digital performance intelligence company that provides unparalleled insight into customer-critical services to help consistently deliver amazing digital experiences.
CEO: Mehdi Daoudi
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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
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Clari’s Revenue Operations Platform helps B2B organizations increase win rates, shorten sales cycles and improve forecast accuracy by using AI and automation to create full funnel accountability across go-to-market teams.
CEO: Andy Byrne
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CloudHealth provides the world’s most trusted software platform for accelerating business transformation in the cloud.
Acquired by VMware (2018)
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Control4 manufactures wired and wireless home automation products. It offers software and hardware products, which enable home theater and television, multi-room music, lighting, temperature, and security control.
NASDAQ: CTRLAcquired by Hellman & Friedman (2019)
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Cyphort delivers complete defense against current and emerging Advanced Persistent Threats, targeted attacks and zero day vulnerabilities. Cyphort detects and analyzes next generation malware, providing actionable, contextual intelligence that enables security teams to respond more effectively.
Acquired by Juniper Networks (2017)
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Cypress is a next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web addressing the key pain points developers and QA engineers face when testing modern applications.
CEO: Drew Lanham
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DataRobot offers an enterprise machine learning platform that empowers users to develop and deploy ML and AI faster. Incorporating a library of hundreds of open source machine learning algorithms, DataRobot automates, trains, and evaluates models in parallel, delivering AI applications at scale.
CEO: Dan Wright
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Founded in 2000, ExactTarget was a leading cloud marketing platform.
NYSE: ETAcquired by SalesForce (2013)
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FalconX is an all-in-one cryptocurrency and digital assets financial services platform facilitating trading, credit, and clearing for institutions.
CEO: Raghu Yarlagadda
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Five9 is a leading provider of cloud contact center software for the digital enterprise, bringing the power of cloud innovation to customers and facilitating more than three billion customer interactions annually.
NASDAQ: FIVNFive9 had an IPO in 2014
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GroundWork delivers Unified Monitoring for Real™ with an open software platform for shockingly easy integrations and customized visualizations of cloud, virtualization, network, application, server, and storage data.
Acquired by Fox Technologies (2016)
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Ignite Technologies provides a secure and scalable Content Delivery Solution enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver and manage digital assets-from rich media content for communications and training to software patches and virus updates.
Acquired by ScaleArc (2018)
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB, the leading time series platform. More than 1,900 organizations use InfluxDB to collect, store, and analyze all time series data at any scale. Developers can query and analyze their time-stamped data in real-time to discover, interpret, and share new insights to gain a competitive edge.
CEO: Evan Kaplan
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iYogi is an early leader in fulfilling the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT). iYogi is a global software and services company providing solutions for consumers in both, the home and business. Leveraging its proprietary Digital Service Cloud IoT platform, iYogi delivers support to millions of customers.
CEO: Uday Challu
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TIBCO Jaspersoft Studio is a powerful, intuitive, 100% Java visual report builder and designer. Featuring the industry’s most advanced design environment, it enables you to create the richest, most customized reports and visualizations for JasperReports.
Acquired by TIBCO (2014)
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JFrog empowers developers to code high-quality applications that securely flow to end-users with zero downtime.
NASDAQ: FROGIPO 2020
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JumpCloud provides secure access to the resources they need to do their jobs. JumpCloud gives IT, security operations, and DevOps a single, cloud-based solution to control and manage employee identities, their devices, and apply Zero Trust principles.
CEO: Rajat Bhargava
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JustDial is the leading local search engine in India.
NSE: JUSTDIALIPO 2013
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Matillion is a software company that offers purpose-built, native ELT solutions for cloud data platforms. Its products are designed and developed for fast-growing, tech-savvy, and intelligence- and data- driven companies that are leveraging the cloud to gain insights.
CEO: Matthew Scullion
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Mirantis is the flexible infrastructure company harnessing open source to free application owners from operations concerns. Mirantis has helped hundreds if enterprises and service providers build and operate some of the largest open clouds in the world.
CEO: Adrian Ionel
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MuleSoft’s mission is to help organizations change and innovate faster by making it easy to connect the world’s applications, data and devices.
NYSE: MULEAcquired by Salesforce (2018)
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Narrative Science creates software that writes stories from data to drive understanding and results. Powered by artificial intelligence, our technology automatically turns data into easy-to-understand reports, transforms statistics into stories, and converts numbers into knowledge.
Acquired by Salesforce (2021)
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Netskope helps the world’s largest organizations take full advantage of the cloud and web without sacrificing security. Their patented Cloud XD technology eliminates blind spots by going deeper than other security providers to target and control activities across thousands of cloud services and millions of websites.
CE: Sanjay Beri
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Newgen is the leading provider of a unified digital transformation platform with native process automation, content services, and communication management capabilities.
NSE: NEWGENIPO 2018
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Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible so that IT can focus on the applications and services that power their business.
NASDAQ: NTNXIPO 2016
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OpenX powers highly relevant advertising at global scale, delivering quality and value to brands, publishers and consumers across every type of connected screen and ad format.
CEO: John Gentry
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OpsRamp enables IT to control the chaos of managing their hybrid IT operations and act as a service provider back to the business.
CEO: Varma Kunaparaju
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Bringing half-a-billion Indians to the mainstream economy with over 300 million wallets and 60 million bank accounts. With a zero balance savings account, spend analytics, digital passbook or a virtual debit card, fixed deposit, money transfer, every feature has been thoughtfully created by Paytm payments to empower unbanked and underbanked Indians.
(NSE: PAYTM)IPO 2021
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Privacera’s SaaS-based data security and governance platform enables analytics teams to access data without compromising compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and HIPAA. Privacera provides a single pane of glass for securing sensitive data across multiple cloud services.
CEO: Balaji Ganesan
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Portworx is the cloud-native storage company enterprises trust to manage data in containers. Portworx reduces storage, compute and infrastructure costs for running mission critical multi-cloud applications with zero downtime or data loss for its many customers.
Acquired by Pure Storage (2020)
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PubNub is a secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy-to-use API that enables its customers to connect, scale, and manage realtime applications and IoT devices. PubNub’s unique infrastructure provides the ability to easily connect and operate world-class realtime applications and IoT devices.
CEO: Todd Greene
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Punchh is the world leader in innovative digital marketing products for brick and mortar retailers, combining AI and machine learning technologies, mobile-first expertise, and Omni-Channel communications designed to dramatically increase lifetime customer value.
Acquired by Par Technology (2021)
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SAVO plugs your sales reps into the collective genius of your entire organization by connecting them to the best resources, insights and expertise so that they never sell alone.
Acquired by Seismic (2018)
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Socrata is the world leader in cloud solutions for open data and data-driven governments. Socrata’s solutions assist government leaders in improving transparency, modernizing citizen access to information and bringing data into every decision, all with unprecedented speed and cost savings.
Acquired by Tyler Technologies (2018)
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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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Square is a full point of sale tool, created for running every part of a business–from accepting credit cards to sales, inventory tracking, and small business financing. Founded in 2009, Square is available in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
NYSE: SQIPO 2015
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StarTree, the commercial entity behind Apache Pinot, is building data infrastructure to pioneer the revolution of real-time user-facing analytics. Delivering a complete suite of products to take you from data to real-time applications and the flexibility to choose the deployment model that fits your needs.
CEO: Kishore Gopalakrishna
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Sumo Logic is a secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service, delivering real-time, continuous intelligence from structured, semi-structured and unstructured data across the entire application lifecycle and stack.
NASDAQ: SUMOIPO 2020
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Tealeaf is a Customer Experience Management (CEM) software company known for its CX line of products and solutions that capture customers’ website interactions from the individual user’s point of view.
Acquired by IBM (2012)
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Tesseract is a financial services and investment management innovator in digital assets. Tesseract is a forerunner in the digital asset sector and has expertise in providing industry-leading solutions in investments, portfolio management, capital markets operations, and blockchain technology.
CEO: Kshitij Marwah
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Tetrate is the enterprise service mesh company managing the complexity of modern, hybrid cloud application infrastructure. Its flagship product, Tetrate Service Bridge, provides a comprehensive, enterprise-ready service mesh platform built for multi-cluster, multitenancy, and multi-cloud deployments.
Co-CEOs: Varun Talwar + J Jeyappragash
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ThoughtSpot, the leader in search & AI-driven analytics for enterprises, is helping the largest companies in the world succeed in the digital era by putting the power of a thousand analysts in every business person’s hands. With ThoughtSpot’s next-generation analytics platform, business people can use Google-like search to easily analyze complex, large-scale enterprise data and get trusted insights.
CEO: Sudheesh Nair
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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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Uptycs provides a SaaS and on-prem SQL-powered security analytics platform for security analysts, site reliability engineers, incident response teams and IT professionals to observe and secure their productivity endpoints (macOS, Windows), server endpoints (Linux, containers) and cloud providers (AWS).
CEO: Ganesh Pai
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Verbit is a leading interactive transcription and captioning solution. Verbit’s in-house, AI-based technology is able to transform both live and recorded video and audio into 99% accurate captions and transcripts for the higher education, legal, media and enterprise industries.
CEO: Tom Livne
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yellow.ai (formerly Yellow Messenger) is the world’s leading conversational CX automation platform that brings the best of AI and human intelligence together, to automate Customer Experience for large brands and enterprises.
CEO: Raghu Ravinutala
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Founded by former Facebook and Oracle engineers, Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB, the open source, high-performance distributed SQL database for building global, cloud-native applications.
CEO: Bill Cook
News + Perspectives
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Transforming Data Infrastructure with Real-Time Analytics: Why We’re Excited to Back StarTree
Investment / August 29, 2022Transforming Data Infrastructure with Real-Time Analytics: Why We’re Excited to Back StarTree
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Automating Cloud Management for DevOps: Why We’re Excited to Back Zesty
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