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Jai Das

President, Partner & Co-Founder at Sapphire Ventures

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Overview

Jai Das is President, Partner & Co-Founder at Sapphire Ventures[1][3]. Das has been involved with investments that produced approximately 15 IPOs and 9 unicorn-stage companies with over $1 billion in annual recurring revenue[2]. Prior to the current role, Das served as Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures from August 2006 to December 2018[4]. Das currently holds board positions at Rain[5], Huntress[6], Cyera[7], and Defense Unicorns[10], and serves as an investor in Temporal Technologies[8] and Glean[9]. Das holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Brown University[12] and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business[11].

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15 IPO's and 9 investments that are true Unicorns i.e. they have over $1 Billion in ARR. IPO's include Netskope (NTSK), Nutanix (NTNX)), JFrog (FROG), Square/Block (SQ), Box (BOX), Five9 (FIVN), Alteryx (acquired by Clearlake), MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce), PayTM (PAYTM), SumoLogic (acquired by Francisco Partners), ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce), Apigee (acquired by Google Cloud), Control4 (acquired by Hellman & Friedman), JustDial (JUSTDIAL) and Newgen (NEWGEN). I am currently a Board Member/Observer at AskSage, Blockdaemon, CircleCI, Clari, Cohesity, DataRobot, Defense Unicorn…

Career history

  1. President, Partner & Co-FounderJan 2019 to presentSapphire Ventures
  2. Managing DirectorAug 2006 to Dec 2018Sapphire Ventures
  3. Board MemberAug 2025 to presentRain
  4. Board MemberMay 2023 to presentHuntress
  5. Board MemberMar 2026 to presentCyera
  6. InvestorMar 2026 to presentTemporal Technologies
  7. InvestorSep 2024 to presentGlean
  8. Board MemberMar 2024 to presentDefense Unicorns
  9. InvestorGlean.ai

Education

  1. MBA, Entrepreneurship & MarketingThe University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  2. B.Sc, Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceBrown University

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