Nino is the CEO, Partner and co-Founder of Sapphire Ventures. In his 25 years of experience in investing and operating, Nino has backed more than 100 private companies and venture capital funds. Nino has been affiliated with nearly 40 exits between IPOs and M&A, with notable deals including LinkedIn, Monday.com, Integral Ad Science, OpsRamp and Braze.
Before Sapphire Ventures, Nino was a partner with Draper Fisher Jurvetson and IVF Ventures. In 2006, he joined SAP Ventures and led the team prior to spinning out as an independent VC in 2011. The firm was then rebranded to Sapphire Ventures in 2014.
Prior to venture capital, Nino worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Robertson Stephens. He has a bachelor’s 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 the San Francisco Bay Area before relocating with his family to establish Sapphire’s Austin office in 2021.
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