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Nino Marakovic

Nino Marakovic

CEO and Managing Director

Nino is a super-astute, no-nonsense, no-BS investor who doesn't get caught up on matters of ideology or conventional wisdom. He picks his spots, keeps moving, and stays calm, qualities every entrepreneur wants in an investor.

- Tom Chavez, CEO, Krux View Legal Disclosures

Nino is a founder of Sapphire Ventures and is responsible for the overall investment strategy, execution, operations and performance of the firm.

After more than 20 years in various investing and operating capacities, Nino has participated in investments in more than 100 private companies and venture capital funds and currently holds board director or observer seats at Integral Ad Science (acquired by Vista Equity Partners), OpenX, OpsRamp, and Reltio. He is furthermore involved with Sapphire’s investments in Alation, Feedzai, Mirantis, Outreach, Punchh, Reonomy, Scytl, Sun Basket, and Tradewind Markets.

Nino’s previous investments at Sapphire include: Alteryx (NYSE:AYX), Apriso (acquired by Dassault Systemes), Box (NYSE:BOX), Criteo (NASDAQ: CRTO), Endeca (acquired by Oracle), Inkling (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners), iovation (acquired by TransUnion), Iron.io, Krux (acquired by SalesForce), Lavante (acquired by PRGX Global), LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft), Marin Software (NYSE: MRIN), MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce), Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), Payscale (acquired by Warburg Pincus), Recommind (acquired by OpenText), Right Hemisphere (acquired by SAP), Square (NYSE:SQ), Vendavo (acquired by Francisco Partners), and Zend (acquired by Rogue Wave).

Before Sapphire Ventures, Nino was a partner with meVC Draper Fisher Jurvetson and IVF Ventures. 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 Germany before settling in the San Francisco Bay Area more than 20 years ago.

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Investments

Alation

Alteryx (AYX)

Apriso (acquired by Dassault Systèmes)

Box (BOX)

Criteo (CRTO)

Endeca (acquired by Oracle)

Feedzai

Inkling (acquired by Marlin Equity Partners)

Integral Ad Science (acquired by Vista Equity Partners)

iovation (acquired by TransUnion)

Iron.io

Krux (acquired by Salesforce)

Lavante (acquired by PRGX Global)

LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft)

Marin Software (MRIN)

Mirantis

Mulesoft (acquired by Salesforce)

Nutanix (NTNX)

OpenX

OpsRamp

Outreach

Payscale (acquired by Warburg Pincus)

Punchh

Right Hemisphere (acquired by SAP)

Recommind (acquired by OpenText)

Reltio

Reonomy

Scytl

Square (SQ)

Sunbasket

Tradewind Markets

Vendavo (acquired by Francisco Partners)

Zend (acquired by Rogue Wave)

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