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Jessica Cohen
Senior Associate at Emergence Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Jessica Cohen is a Senior Associate at Emergence Capital in San Francisco, with prior experience at Partech and XAnge as a VC Analyst. She has a strong background in venture capital, having invested in various sectors such as fashion, payments, cloud infrastructure, and FinTech, across different funding stages.
Jessica's career highlights include co-founding and organizing the StartUpper Academy and holding a Master's degree from CentraleSupélec, University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne, and ESCP Business School.
Work Experience
Senior Associate
2022 - Current
Emergence Capital is the leading venture capital firm focused on the business cloud. We have >$2B in AUM, and our investments include Salesforce, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Veeva, Gusto, Box, Textio, and Zoom.
Emergence supported a few carefully selected CEOs who shared our vision that corporate software would migrate to the cloud.
Investor
2018 - 2022
Guardicore (acq. by Akamai), Medigate (acq. by Claroty), Memfault, Lendtable
Co-founder and Organizer
2017 - 2017
StartUpper Academy is a first of its kind and biggest startup contest in Seine-Saint-Denis. Partners include The Family, Station F, La French Tech...
VC Analyst
2016 - 2016