The firm
EmergenceVC firm · US1cheques in 12 months125all time1ledCompanies they are listed as backing
Portfolio
ASAPP
Airkit
Assembled
Augmedix
Betterworks- Bill.com
Blend
Chorus.ai
Civitas Learning- Clearbanc
Comfy
Crunchbase
Docket- Drishti
DroneDeploy
EmployeeChannel
Eversight
GroundTruth- Guru
Gusto
Handshake
Hi Marley- Impartner
Insightly- IrisVR
Ironclad- Janrain
- LogDNA
- Maze
MedeAnalytics
Mya Systems
NaveraOpenpath
Outlier
Oyster
Quasar Builders
36 of 57 companies.
Where they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Company raisingUnify AI Business CorpDirectorsince 2024
- SEC Form D · Company raisingMechanical Orchard, Inc.Directorsince 2024
- SEC Form D · Company raisingMaze.Design, Inc.Directorsince 2022
Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.
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Recall Sessions: Most SaaS Companies Won't Survive This - Jake Saper (Emergence)
WithJake Saper
About this episode
Jake Saper is General Partner at Emergence Capital, the firm that was the first institutional investor in Zoom and an early backer of Salesforce, Veeva, Bill.com, and Together.ai. Jake has been at Emergence for over a decade and has led investments in Assembled, Unify, and Ironclad. Jake has… More on the show's page
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506. Mirage PMF, What LLMs Will Take On and What They Will Avoid, Why Outcomes Will Shift Models from Software to Services, and How Pricing Playbooks Are Being Rewritten (Jake Saper)
WithJake Saper
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Jake Saper of Emergence Capital joins Nick to discuss Mirage PMF, What LLMs Will Take On and What They Will Avoid, Why Outcomes Will Shift Models from Software to Services, and How Pricing Playbooks Are Being Rewritten. In this episode we cover: SaaS Market Sell-Off and Future of Software Impact… More on the show's page
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20VC: Lessons from Investing $2BN and Returning $8BN in Cash | Why Most Venture Partnerships are Broken | We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions | Are The Best Deals Always Expensive and Competitive with Jake Saper @ Emergence Capital
WithJake Saper
About this episode
Jake Saper is a General Partner @ Emergence Capital, one of the leading venture firms of the last 20 years. Their many wins include being early investors in Salesforce, Zoom, Veeva and more. In total, the firm has invested $2BN and returned an astonishing $8BN in cash with much more to come. In… More on the show's page
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Investor Stories 481: Lessons Learned from Centana Growth, a16z, and Emergence: Trusting Management, Spotting Original Thinkers, and Investing Before Revenue (Byunn, Ulevitch, Saper)
MentionsAndreessen HorowitzDavid UlevitchEric ByunnJake Saper
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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Eric Byunn of Centana Growth David Ulevitch of Andreessen Horowitz Jake Saper of Emergence Capital We asked guests to tell the most important lesson they've learned in their career. The host of The Full Ratchet… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageInvestor Stories 477: Why VCs Passed on Figma, ClickUp, Uber, Pinterest, Okta, DoorDash, and Anthropic: Lessons from Investor Anti Portfolios (Ulevitch, Saper, Patnam)
MentionsAndreessen HorowitzDavid UlevitchJake SaperSandesh Patnam
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n this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: David Ulevitch of Andreessen Horowitz Jake Saper of Emergence Capital Sandesh Patnam of Premji Invest Each investor highlights a situation where they decided not to invest, why they passed, and how it played out.… More on the show's page
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Apple PodcastsThe show's pageInvestor Stories 475: What Makes Founders Exceptional, Navigating Complex Ethical Issues, and Building with Intensity (Ortlieb, Ulevitch, Saper)
MentionsAndreessen HorowitzDavid UlevitchBen OrthliebJake Saper
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On this special segment of The Full Ratchet, the following Investors are featured: Ben Orthlieb of Blue Moon David Ulevitch of Andreessen Horowitz Jake Saper of Emergence Capital We asked guests to discuss the most visionary founder that they've worked with and what makes them so special. The… More on the show's page
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Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)
WithPeter Gassner
MentionsEric YuanJake Saper
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We sit down with the CEO founders of two of the most capital efficient success stories of all time, Zoom and Veeva Systems, to understand how they grew to billions of dollars in revenue (and tens of billions in market cap) on very, very little capital invested. With the fundraising environment… More on the show's page
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