Jake Saper
Principal, Emergence Capital

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Jake Saper is principal at Emergence, where he co-leads the company’s practice focused on machine learning-enabled enterprise applications. Jake is passionate about the role machine learning can play in helping to augment workers, an approach Emergence has dubbed “coaching networks.” Previously, Jake worked in Kleiner Perkins’s Green Growth Fund, where he sourced and led diligence on companies in the geospatial, agricultural tech, and enterprise SaaS sectors. He currently serves as on the boards of DroneDeploy, Guru, Comfy, and Textio. Jake holds a BA (magna cum laude) from Yale University, an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and an MS in environment and resources, also from Stanford. He loves antique swords and musical parodies.