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Elaine Dai

Partner at Alt Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Elaine Dai is a Partner at Alt Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in investment and board observer roles at various companies. She holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and has made impactful investments in companies like Harness and Obsidian Security. Elaine Dai's career highlights include serving as a Board Observer at Lavender and making investments in innovative companies like Workato and ORO Labs. She excels in research, communication, and data analysis, contributing to her success in the biotechnology and enterprise sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Board Observer

    2023 - 2024

    #1 sales email coach

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2024

    The modern software delivery platform

Harness is a Continuous Delivery-as-a-Service platform for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production.

Raised $575,000,000.00 from Hercules Capital and Silicon Valley Bank.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2024

    B2B rebate management software

Enable is a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management.

Raised $276,000,000.00 from Gaingels.

  • Investor

    2021 - 2024

    SaaS Security platform

Obsidian Security is a threat detection and posture management for business-critical saas applications.

Raised $119,500,000.00 from IVP, Norwest Venture Partners, Innovation Valley Partners, Wing Venture Capital, Google Ventures, Greylock and Menlo Ventures.

  • Board Observer

    2020 - 2024

    Sales commissions automation platform. Acquired by Salesforce in 2024

Spiff is a compensation platform for revenue and sales organizations that helps automate complex commission processes and motivate sales.

Raised $112,000,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Kickstart and Album VC.

  • Investor

    2020 - 2024

    Data security platform built on the power of authorization. Helping companies answer the question "Who can and should what action on what data?"

Veza is a data security platform that helps users use and share their data safely.

Raised $125,000,000.00 from The Syndicate Group.

  • Investor

    2020 - 2024

    Making procurement easy and efficient for all employees

Oro Labs is the supplier engagement platform for modern companies.

Raised $59,000,000.00 from Workday Ventures.

  • Investor

    2019 - 2024

    Norwest Venture Partners (NVP) is a multi-stage fund with over $12.5B of capital under management. We are currently investing out of our $3B Fund 16 and have offices in SF, Menlo Park, Israel and India.

Norwest Venture Partners is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.

  • Investor

    2019 - 2024

    A single platform to integrate anything and automate everything

Workato is an enterprise automation platform that helps organizations work faster and smarter without compromising governance and security.

Raised $415,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Altimeter Capital, Unbound Ventures, Insight Partners, Geodesic Capital, Battery Ventures and Redpoint.

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