Investing Profile

Cathy Gao

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Partner at Sapphire Ventures

sapphireventures.com/team/cat...San Francisco, California

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Current Investing Position

Sapphire Ventures Partner

Investment Range

$10.0M - $100.0M

Sweet Spot

$25.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$1.4B

Cathy Gao is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Analytics (Series B)Enterprise (Series B)Health & Hospital Services (Series B)SaaS (Series B)San Francisco Bay Area Health IT (Series B)

Cathy Gao's Investments On Record (9)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Blue J	Series DAug 2025$120M	$130M
Co-investors: Lake Dai (Sancus Ventures), Alison Nankivell (BDC Venture Capital), Allen Miller (Oak HC/FT)
UJET	Series DSep 2024$76M Series CJun 2020$55M	$180M
Co-investors: Karim Faris (GV (Google Ventures)), Jason Krikorian (DCM), Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Ramneek Gupta (PruVen Capital)
EliseAI	Series DAug 2024$75M	$110M
Co-investors: Jo Ann Corkran (Golden Seeds)
CaptivateIQ	Series CJan 2022$100M	$170M
Co-investors: Ben Fletcher (Accel), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Patrick Yang (Amity Ventures), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Somrat Niyogi (Recall Capital), Gokul Rajaram, Frederic Kerrest
Gem	Series CSep 2021$100M	$200M
Co-investors: David Wadhwani (Greylock), Daniel Levine (Accel), Howard Morgan (B Capital Group), James Joaquin (Obvious Ventures), TianYu (TY) Wong (Starframe Capital), Nadav Zafrir (Team8), Ben Dahl (Signal Peak Ventures), Ellen Levy (Silicon Valley Connect), Krishna Gupta (REMUS Capital), Andrew Miklas (S28 Capital), Sujay Jaswa (WndrCo LLC), Jai Choi (Tekton Ventures), Oren Yunger (Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital)), Arash Ferdowsi, George Hu, Drew Houston, Alice Lloyd George
Involve.ai	Series AAug 2021$16M	$16M
Co-investors: Michael Whitfield, Gokul Rajaram
SafeGraph	Series BMar 2021$45M	$61M
Co-investors: Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Paul Levine (Sapphire Ventures), Julia Popowitz (Broadway Angels), Naval Ravikant (The Hit Forge), Tom Chavez (super{set}), Pete Briger (Fortress Investment Group), Alex Rosen (IDG Ventures), Alexander Rosen (Ridge Ventures (Formerly known as IDG Ventures USA)), Itamar Novick (Recursive Ventures), Jonathan Abrams (8-Bit Capital), Eric Chernoff, Adam D'Angelo, Nicolas Berggruen, Jonathan Swanson, Kim Perell
Splashtop	Series EJan 2021$65M	$120M
Co-investors: Jai Das (Sapphire Ventures), Colin Bryant (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Tim Draper (Draper Associates), Ryan Floyd (Storm Ventures), Salman Ullah (Merus Capital), Peter Sonsini, Larry Augustin