Investing Profile

Jake Saper(1)

VCInvestor
General Partner at Emergence Capital
emcap.com/people/jake-saper/San Francisco, California
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Networks Jake is a member of
Stanford University Network
518 CONNECTIONS
Yale University Network
129 CONNECTIONS
Kauffman Fellows Network
39 CONNECTIONS
Stanford Graduate School of Business Network
31 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Emergence Capital General Partner
Investment Range
$4.0M - $20.0M
Sweet Spot
$10.0M
Investments On Record
19
Current Fund Size
$575M

Jake Saper is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Jake Saper's Investments On Record (10)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Prosper AI
SeedApr 2025$5M
$5M
Regal
Series UnknownOct 2024$40M
Series ASep 2022$39M
$83M
Co-investors: David Frankel (Founder Collective), Satya Patel (Homebrew), Edward Lando (Pareto Holdings)
Mechanical Orchard
Series AFeb 2024$24M
$77M
Co-investors: Crystal Huang (GV (Google Ventures))
Assembled
Series BMay 2022$51M
Series AMar 2021$17M
$71M
Co-investors: Lan Xuezhao (Basis Set Ventures), Hilarie Koplow-McAdams (New Enterprise Associates (NEA)), Tony Huie (SignalFire)
Guru
Series CApr 2020$30M
Series BDec 2018$25M
Series ASep 2017$9M
$100M
Co-investors: Amish Jani (FirstMark Capital), Ben Fletcher (Accel), Miles Clements (Accel), Julian Roeoes (Picus Capital), Robin Vasan (Mango Capital), Rafa de la Guia (Quona Capital), Ryan Shmeizer (GreenPoint Partners), Jonathan Whittle (Quona Capital), Stefan Jeschonnek
Textio
Series UnknownMar 2020$12M
Series BJun 2017$20M
Series ADec 2015$8M
$42M
Co-investors: Stacey Bishop (Scale Venture Partners), Kent Goldman (Upside Partnership)
Ironclad
Series CSep 2019$50M
Series CAug 2019
$330M
Co-investors: Steve Loughlin (Accel), Jess Lee (Sequoia Capital), Sheel Mohnot (Better Tomorrow Ventures), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Wei Guo (UpHonest Capital), Mood Rowghani (Bond), Mary Meeker (Bond), Mood Rawghani (Bond), Ryan Biggs (Franklin Templeton Investments), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator), Neil Sirni (Arrive), Payam Zamani (One Planet Group), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), Eddie Hartman
Vymo
Series BJul 2019$18M
$18M

most interested in

ML-powered B2B apps; high usage, product-led growth B2B apps

not interested in

Consumer; hardware; biotech

Jake Saper's Experience

Kauffman Fellow Kauffman Fellows2015 - 2017
General Manager - Global Strategy, Business Development, and Operations Astonfield Renewables2009 - 2012
Senior Associate Katzenbach Partners (Booz & Company)2006 - 2009

Jake Saper's Education

Stanford Graduate School of Business Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Stanford University MS Environment & Resources
Yale University BA Political Science and International Studies