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Assertion Not publicly verifiable
90% of Emergence Capital Deals Raise Follow-On Rounds
“Nine out of 10 of our deals have gone on to raise successful following rounds.”
Jake Saper Mar 10, 2025 ▶ 0:10 Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Jake Saper: Emergence Capital requires a 3-5 hypothesis chart for diligence
“Every diligence exercise results in a chart, and the chart is, what are the three to five what you have to believes? What is the data supporting is what you have to believe? And what is the data negating is what you have to believe?”
Jake Saper Mar 10, 2025 ▶ 27:05 Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: Emergence Capital's fund backing EchoSign returned 12x
“I was in emergence too. That's like a 12 X fund.”
Jason Lemkin Nov 30, 2022 ▶ 8:45 Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Scott Dorsey: High Alpha is backed by Emergence Capital and Hyde Park
“We're funded by Emergence Capital out of the Bay Area, Gordon Ritter, phenomenal cloud investor and friend and entrepreneur. It was our lead investor, and then Hyde Park out of Chicago, and we have about 20 to 25 of us, designers, developers, analysts, subject…”
Scott Dorsey Dec 5, 2016 ▶ 9:51 20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
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