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Steve Abbott
Partner, Sapphire Ventures
Steve Abbott
Partner, Sapphire Ventures
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Steve is a partner at Sapphire Ventures, where he is responsible for the firm’s capital markets activities. Steve’s areas of technology focus include vertical and horizontal applications software, as well as businesses at the intersection of next gen media, digital commerce and disruptive technologies. He has served as a board director for Recommind and Intelligent Brands, board observer for Fevo and Tonal, and currently serves as a board director or observer for Clari, Catchpoint, OpenX, Project44, PubNub and Reltio

Steve is a founding partner of the firm’s early-stage sports, media and entertainment technology investing initiative, Sapphire Sport. Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures, he was a managing director in technology investment banking at Deutsche Bank, UBS and Jefferies, where he led more than 100 financings and M&A transactions.

Earlier in his career, Steve was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and worked in technology corporate finance at Robertson Stephens. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, with highest honors, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a JD from Stanford Law School. During his time at Stanford, Steve was a fellow at the Stanford Center for Conflict and Negotiation and worked for the San Francisco 49ers on salary cap modeling. He served on the Bay Area Leadership Council for the U.S. Soccer Foundation. 

Steve is based in our Austin office. He has also lived and worked in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, London and Washington, D.C., and traveled extensively on business throughout Europe and China.

Steve has been a consistent supporter for many years, providing tremendous value on strategic and financial matters to me and my executive team.
Patrick Quinlan, CEO Convercent
Investments
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  • Catchpoint

    A leading digital performance intelligence company.
  • Clari

    Revenue operations platform.
  • Fevo

    Enables “social commerce” by making it easier to bring people together to create unforgettable group live event experiences.
  • OpenX

    Powering highly relevant advertising at a global scale.
  • project44

    The world’s leading advanced visibility platform for shippers and third-party logistics firms.
  • PubNub

    A secure global Data Stream Network (DSN) and easy-to-use API.
  • M&A

    Recommind

    Acquired by OpenText (2016)
  • Reltio

    Manages mission-critical data to win in the experience economy.
  • M&A

    Sun Basket

    Acquired by Intelligent Brands (2021)
  • Tonal

    The world’s most intelligent fitness system and the first truly personalized approach to strength training.