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How to Price Your Software: 101
Talks about SaaS, Pricing Strategy and SaaS pricing
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Jake Saper
General Partner at Emergence Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Jake Saper is a General Partner at Emergence Capital, focusing on investing in and partnering with founders who are revolutionizing industries. With a background in venture capital and a track record of successful investments in companies like Guru and Ironclad, he brings strategic insights and expertise to help startups grow and scale effectively. His role involves driving innovation in sectors such as SaaS, AI, and Enterprise, positioning him as a key player in shaping the future of technology and business development.
Work Experience
General Partner
2014 - Current
Emergence Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on the business cloud. We have ~$2B in AUM, and our investments include Salesforce, Veeva, Gusto, Box, Bill.com, Doximity, and Zoom.
Emergence supported a few carefully selected CEOs who shared our vision that corporate software would migrate to the cloud.
Board Director
2023
Mechanical Orchard is using GenAI to modernize mission-critical applications still stuck in mainframes.
Mechanical Orchard is an AI-native technology company that modernizes critical legacy applications without disrupting what they’re doing.
Raised $81,000,000.00 from Google Ventures.
Board Director
2021
Regal is an event-driven phone and SMS sales solution driving an average revenue lift of 25% for their customers.
Board Director
2021
Maze is a rapid remote testing platform allowing anyone that touches product development to quickly gather and collaborate on user feedback. It's a prime example of the next generation of Deep Collaboration companies.
Maze is the continuous product discovery platform for user-centric teams.
Raised $57,472,923.00 from Amplify Partners, Atlassian Ventures, HubSpot Ventures, Seedcamp, Justin Bauer, Felicis, Zoom Ventures, Emergence, Partech and Anne Raimondi.
Board Director
2020
Assembled is the operations platform for modern support teams.
Assembled is a workforce management platform that helps modern organizations scale customer support teams.
Raised $70,700,000.00 from Basis Set Ventures, Emergence and New Enterprise Associates.
Board Observer
2019
Ironclad is ushering in the new era of digital contracting, allowing for Deep Collaboration on contracting within and between companies.
Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management platform used by companies to handle every type of contract workflow.
Raised $334,000,000.00 from Franklin Templeton, Bond, Accel, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Sequoia Capital, Haystack, Lux Capital, Arrive and Emergence.
Board Director
2017
Guru is building a Coaching Network providing customer-facing teams the knowledge they need, when and where they need it.
Guru is a knowledge management platform designed to help teams and organizations capture, share, and organize knowledge efficiently.
Raised $70,700,000.00 from Emergence, Accel, DFO Management, Thrive Capital, FirstMark and Slack Fund.
Board Director
2019
Vymo is building a Coaching Network enabling sales teams in financial services to become Trusted Advisors to their clients.
Board Observer
2016
Textio is a machine learning-enabled augmented writing platform. We make the words you write have the impact you want.
Textio gives managers essential AI tools to become better, more confident leaders.
Raised $42,499,972.00 from Upside Partnership, Cowboy Ventures, Emergence, Operator Collective, Industry Ventures, Scale Venture Partners and Bloomberg Beta.
Board Observer
2015
DroneDeploy is putting drones to work in the resources sectors and beyond.
DroneDeploy is a cloud-based drone mapping and analytics platform to help businesses get things done.
Raised $142,552,368.00 from Bessemer Venture Partners, Emergence, Uncork Capital, Frontline Ventures, Airtree Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, AngelPad, Energize Capital and BluePointe Ventures.