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Nate Leung

Partner at Sapphire Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Nate Leung is a Partner at Sapphire Partners in San Francisco, California, with a background in financial modeling, strategy, and management consulting. With a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and experience at firms like Bain Capital Ventures and The Boston Consulting Group, he specializes in venture capital, due diligence, and business development. Highlights of Nate's career include his role as a Partner at Sapphire Ventures, LLC, and his expertise in investing in Series A and seed stage companies in sectors like Consumer Internet and Enterprise.

Work Experience 

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Sapphire Ventures, LLC

  • 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.

Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm backing companies of consequence.

sapphireventures.com
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Sapphire Partners

  • Partner

    2019

  • Partner

    2019

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Industry Ventures

  • 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.

Industry Ventures is an investment firm that makes venture capital investments and manages over $3.5 billion of institutional capital.

industryventures.com
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Optimizely

  • Partnerships

    2014 - 2016

Optimizely is a digital experience platform for unlocking digital potential, content, commerce, and optimization.

Raised $251,200,000.00 from Bridge Bank.

optimizely.com
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NuORDER Inc.

  • Operations

    2013 - 2014

NuORDER is a cloud and mobile B2B eCommerce platform empowering brands and retailers to streamline their business operations.

Raised $81,900,000.00 from Brighton Park Capital and Imaginary Ventures.

nuorder.com
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Rent The Runway

  • Marketing and Operations

    2010 - 2011

    Portfolio

Rent the Runway is an online e-commerce website that allows women to rent designer apparel and accessories.

Raised $626,149,985.00 from Ares Management.

renttherunway.com
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Bain Capital Ventures

  • Associate

    2009 - 2011

Bain Capital is an alternative investment firm specializing in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.

baincapital.com
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The Boston Consulting Group

  • Associate

    2007 - 2009

BCG Securities focuses on wealth management with high net worth individuals.

bcg.com
SU

Stanford University

  • Research Assistant

    2006 - 2007

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