Scott Dorsey
Managing Partner at High Alpha
Indianapolis, Indiana
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2015 - Current
High Alpha is a leading venture studio that conceives, launches and scales next generation enterprise cloud companies. High Alpha Studio focuses on new company creation and helping talented tech entrepreneurs go faster and further. High Alpha Capital invests in Seed and Series A software companies throughout North America.
High Alpha creates and funds companies through a new model for entrepreneurship that unites company building and venture capital.
Board Member
2017 - 2021
Honored to have served on the Pluralsight Board through our IPO (NASDAQ:PS) and ultimate sale to Vista Equity. Amazing company helping thousands of organizations build tech skills at scale.
Pluralsight is a technology learning platform for software developers, IT admins, and creative professionals.
Raised $192,500,000.00 from Insight Partners and ICONIQ Growth.
CEO, Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2013 - 2014
Brought together ExactTarget, Pardot, Buddy Media and Radian6 to create the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. Led team of 3000+ talented team members with offices around the world.
Co-Founder, CEO and Chairman
2000 - 2013
Fortunate to have co-founded ExactTarget with Chris Baggott and Peter McCormick. Along with 2,000 extraordinary team members, we built ExactTarget into the leading marketing SaaS company in the world. Proud to have gone public in March 2012 (NYSE:ET) and then joined forces with Salesforce in July 2013 to create the Salesforce Marketing Cloud.
ExactTarget provides on-demand one-to-one email marketing software applications.
Raised $188,210,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Greenspring Associates, TCV and TCV.