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Cathy Gao

Partner at Sapphire Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Cathy Gao is a Partner at Sapphire Ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializing in investments, growth capital, and mergers & acquisitions. She has a strong track record of successful investments in companies like CaptivateIQ, Gem, and SafeGraph, and serves on the boards of several high-growth startups. Gao's career highlights include leading investments in companies at various stages, such as Series A to Series E, and focusing on sectors like Analytics, Health IT, and SaaS. She also plays a key role in providing strategic guidance as a board member and observer for multiple innovative companies.

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.

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