Nate Leung
Partner at Sapphire Ventures
Nate Leung
Partner at Sapphire Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Sapphire Partners seeks to invest in top venture fund managers. We focus on early-stage venture funds, both established and emerging, in the US, Europe and Israel. As the LP arm of Sapphire Ventures, we invest out of an evergreen-like fund structure designed to provide our managers with access to long-term capital. We provide active, value-add support to our portfolio GPs through deep industry insights and expertise, data-driven performance benchmarks, thought leadership, and the leveraging of Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth services to our portfolio’s benefit.
Partner
2019
Partner
2019
Vice President
2016 - 2018
Industry Ventures manages over $3 billion and has structured flexible liquidity solutions for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and limited partners and helped pioneer a new market along the way. Worked on Partnership Holdings hybrid fund of funds focused on primary and secondary investments in venture capital funds, and direct co-investments in growth-stage companies.
Partnerships
2014 - 2016
Operations
2013 - 2014
Marketing and Operations
2010 - 2011
Portfolio
Associate
2009 - 2011
Associate
2007 - 2009
Research Assistant
2006 - 2007