Jai Das

SAPPHIRE Ventures / Ventures Investment Team

Jai Das

President + Partner, Sapphire Ventures

Jai Das

President + Partner, Sapphire Ventures

Location

Menlo Park, CA

Investments

Jai’s current investments include Glean, Netskope, Cohesity, Huntress, 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 twenty-four of his investments 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.

Focus Areas

B2B
Infrastructure software
Security
Open Source
AI/ML
Data
Analytics
DevOps
Crypto
Blockchain

Jai was an early investor in MuleSoft and invaluable as a steady, positive force as we navigated the ups and downs of a high growth startup. Jai has a broad perspective and deep insights, as well as exceptional relationships which were invaluable in fundraising, partnering and recruiting initiatives. Most important, Jai is a good human, who I could trust to always have the best interest of MuleSoft at heart.

Greg Schott, CEO, MuleSoft

Investments

ALL
Current
Exited

M&A

Alfresco

Acquired by THL Partners (2018)
M&A

AllyO

Acquired by HireVue (2020)
IPO

Alteryx

Leader in self-service data analytics.
IPOM&A

Apigee

Acquired by Google Cloud (2016).
Ask Sage

Secure & agnostic generative AI platform for government
Blockdaemon

A leading independent blockchain node infrastructure.
IPO

Box

Secure platform for content management, workflow + collaboration.
Catchpoint

A leading digital performance intelligence company.
CircleCI

Leading continuous integration and delivery platform for software innovation at scale.
Clari

Revenue operations platform.
M&A

CloudHealth

Acquired by VMware (2018)
Cohesity

AI-powered data security.
IPO

Control4

Manufactures wired and wireless home automation products.
M&A

Cyphort

Acquired by Juniper Networks (2017)
Cypress

Next generation front end testing tool built for the modern web.
DataRobot

An enterprise machine learning platform.
Defense Unicorns

Continuous software delivery for national security missions.
IPOM&A

ExactTarget

A leading cloud marketing platform.
FalconX

All-in-one cryptocurrency and digital assets financial services platform.
IPO

Five9

Leading provider of cloud contact center software for the digital enterprise.
Glean

The Work AI platform connected to all your data.
Huntress

The managed security platform for the 99%
M&A

Ignite Technologies

Acquired by ScaleArc (2018)
InfluxData

Delivers a modern Open Source Platform built from the ground up for analyzing metrics and events.
M&A

IYogi
M&A

Jaspersoft

Acquired by TIBCO (2014)
IPO

JFrog

Empowers developers to code high-quality applications.
JumpCloud

Providing people secure access to the resources they need to do their jobs.
IPO

JustDial

The leading local search engine in India.
Matillion

Offers purpose-built, native ELT solutions for cloud data platforms.
Mirantis

Harnessing open source to free application owners from operations concerns.
IPOM&A

Mulesoft

Acquired by Salesforce (2018)
M&A

Narrative Science

Acquired by Salesforce (2021)
Netskope

Helps the world’s largest organizations take full advantage of the cloud and web without sacrificing security.
IPO

Newgen

Leading provider of a unified digital transformation platform.
IPO

Nutanix

A global leader in cloud software and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions, making infrastructure invisible.
OpenX

Powering highly relevant advertising at a global scale.
M&A

OpsRamp

Enables IT to control the chaos of managing hybrid IT ops.
IPO

Paytm

Bringing half-a-billion Indians to the mainstream economy with over 300 million wallets and 60 million bank accounts.
Privacera

A SaaS-based data security and governance platform.
M&A

Portworx

Acquired by Pure Storage (2020)
PubNub

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

Punchh

The world leader in innovative digital marketing products for brick and mortar retailers.
M&A

SAVO

Acquired by Seismic (2018)
Simpplr

The leading AI-powered employee experience platform.
M&A

Socrata

Acquired by Tyler Technologies (2018)
Splashtop

The best-in-class cross-screen productivity and collaboration experience, bridging smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs, and clouds.
IPO

Square

A full point of sale with tools for every part of running a business.
StarTree

Building data infrastructure to pioneer the revolution of real-time user-facing analytics.
IPO

Sumo Logic

A secure, cloud-native, machine data analytics service.
Tesseract

A diversified financial services and investment management innovator in digital assets, powered by world-class technology.
Tetrate

Enterprise service mesh company managing the complexity of modern, hybrid cloud application infrastructure.
ThoughtSpot

The leader in search & AI-driven analytics for enterprises.
UJET

Empowering support organizations with automated contact center processes.
Uptycs

SaaS and on-prem SQL-powered security analytics platform.
Verbit

A leading interactive transcription and captioning solution.
yellow.ai

Conversational CX Automation Platform, with the best of AI and human intelligence to automate customer experience
Yugabyte

Open source, high-performance distributed SQL database.
Zesty

The world’s first AI-driven cloud management technology.