Cathy Gao
Partner at Sapphire Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm backing companies of consequence.
Board Member
2024
EliseAI develops conversational AI for property management, unlocking operational efficiencies for businesses.
Raised $141,928,985.00 from Sapphire Ventures, Koch Investments Group, Navitas Capital, DivcoWest and Point72 Ventures.
Board Member
2023
Board Observer
2021
Gem is a recruiting platform that integrates with third-party applications such as LinkedIn, Gmail, etc.
Raised $148,000,000.00 from Sapphire Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Greylock, ICONIQ Growth and Accel.
Board Member
2021
involve.ai is leading the Customer Intelligence Movement to empower companies with transformational growth
Raised $18,500,000.00 from LaunchCapital, Fenwick & West, GTMfund, Greycroft, Bonfire Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, BDMI, Stanford University, Michael Whitfield and Gokul Rajaram.
Board Member
2021
SafeGraph builds and maintains data sets to help accelerate machine learning and AI.
Raised $61,000,000.00 from Akkadian Ventures.
Board Observer
2020
Medable is transforming clinical research and predictive medicine by creating a platform powered by patient generated data.
Raised $506,638,069.00 from Western Technology Investment, Sapphire Ventures, Launchpad Digital Health, Blackstone Accelerates Growth and GSR Ventures.
Board Observer
2020
Investor
2022
CaptivateIQ develops a sales compensation platform designed to help businesses leverage the power of incentives to motivate teams.
Raised $164,600,000.00 from S28 Capital, Amity Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, ICONIQ Growth, Sapphire Ventures, Elad Gil, Workday Ventures and Frederic Kerrest.
Investor
2021
Sword is on a mission to free 2 billion people from pain by pioneering the field of AI Care.
Raised $453,466,017.00 from Khosla Ventures.