Santi Subotovsky
General Partner at Emergence Capital
Santi Subotovsky
General Partner at Emergence Capital
Los Altos, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2010 - Current
Emergence is the leading venture capital firm investing in early and growth-stage technology-enabled services companies. Some of our investments include Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, DoubleClick, aQuantive, Yammer, Box and Veeva Systems.
Board Member
2014
Zoom, the cloud meeting company, unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group collaboration into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio and screen-sharing experience across ZoomPresence, Windows PC, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems. Zoom was founded in 2011 by experienced leaders and engineers from Cisco and WebEx. Every founding engineer has over 10 years of real-time collaboration software experience. Our mission is to develop a people-centric cloud service that transforms the real-time collaboration experience and improves the quality and effectiveness of communications forever. Zoom was named the Cool Vendor 2014 by Gartner, AlwaysOn Top 100, Dell's Founder Club 50 and Small Business Influencer Champion 2013. Sign up for your free account at http://zoom.us
Investor and Board Member
2018
On a mission to improve workplace efficiency and security, Openpath creates smart, secure access systems for the modern office. The company’s flagship product, Openpath Access, combines sleek hardware with an app, enabling employees to enter the office using their smartphones and making office management easier than ever. With encryption at every level and powerful user-level permissions, Openpath Access is both more secure and more dynamic than legacy systems. Founded in 2016, Openpath is based in Los Angeles’ Silicon Beach and has raised $27 million to-date from Emergence Capital, Sorenson Ventures, Bonfire Ventures, Upfront Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Fika Ventures.
Investor and Board Member
2018
Clearbanc was founded in 2015 with the mission of providing growth capital for online-enabled businesses, using actual business data instead of a personal credit score. Co-founders Andrew D'Souza and Michele Romanow are successful serial entrepreneurs and angel investors. Clearbanc was part of the first group of entrepreneurs participating in the Y Combinator Fellowship program.
Board Member
2015
CrunchBase is the leading platform to discover innovative companies and the people behind them. Founded in 2007 by Mike Arrington, CrunchBase began as a simple database to track startups covered on TechCrunch. Today, CrunchBase delivers market insights to millions of users and businesses around the world. The CrunchBase Dataset is constantly expanding through contributions from our community of users, investment firms, and network of global partners. Headquartered in San Francisco, CrunchBase accelerates innovation by bringing together data on companies and the people behind them.
Investor
2015
High Alpha, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is comprised of High Alpha Studio and High Alpha Seed. High Alpha Studio conceives, launches and scales next generation enterprise by providing a blend of services including: product development, sales and marketing, finance, brand and design, and talent development. High Alpha Seed invests in High Alpha Studio companies and other emerging enterprise cloud companies. The combination of High Alpha Studio and High Alpha Seed represents a new model for entrepreneurship that seeks to help companies reduce friction, increase velocity, and achieve enterprise scale. Partners of High Alpha include: Scott Dorsey, former Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of ExactTarget (sold to Salesforce.com); Mike Fitzgerald, former EVP Corporate Development at ExactTarget and Co-Founder of Gravity Ventures; Eric Tobias, Founder and CEO of iGoDigital (sold to ExactTarget); and Kristian Andersen, Founder of Studio Science and Co-Founder of Gravity Ventures. High Alpha is backed by West Coast-based Emergence Capital, an early investor in Salesforce.com, Box, Yammer and Veeva, East Coast-based Greenspring Associates, an early investor in ExactTarget, Midwest-based Hyde Park Venture Partners and strategic angel investors.
Investor and Board Member
2015
Chorus improves conversion rates through better conversations. We help teams using the insights you'd get from sitting in on every sales call. - Reps: Get recorded and transcribed calls with key moments automatically highlighted - Managers: Coach by seeing how your team's conversations map against your playbook and training - Teams: Easily build playbooks based on what your A-players say and do to handle competition and objections We founded Chorus to understand what influences conversation outcomes, and make it easy to learn from and influence the thousands of conversations your team has. Today, almost all of those conversations and the insights they contain are forgotten the second they end, except for the few notes captured in your CRM. We're changing that.
Investor
2014
At Xapo, we believe that bitcoin’s ultimate success will be based on trust – trust in the digital currency and trust in the industry’s service providers. That’s why we assembled a team of financial services and security experts to build a new usage and storage experience. By offering two distinct products – a free, easy-access Wallet and a fully-insured Vault – we’re marrying the convenience bitcoin users want for everyday needs with the security they require for confident bitcoin savings. Our experienced financial services and security experts are dedicated to building the best products to manage all of your bitcoin needs. The Xapo Vault offers fully-insured storage for long term savings, while the Xapo Wallet gives easy, immediate access for day-to-day purchases.
Board Member
2013
Quasar Ventures is focused on creating disruptive technology companies in Latin America and abroad. The company was formed by Andy Freire, Santiago Bilinkis and Pablo Simon Casarino. As the first “company builder” of Latin America, this new concept of entrepreneurship is emerging globally and is supported by the entrepreneurial experience of its partners to implement ideas and create high-impact companies.
Board Observer
2012
Top Hat Monocle is a web- and mobile-based classroom response system that engages students and provides professors with the real-time feedback on student understanding. Top Hat Monocle lets instructors conduct polls, quizzes and interactive demonstrations in class. Students can participate in class using any device they own, such as their cell phone, smartphone, ipad or laptop.
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