Emergence Capital Partners

Focus on Technology-Enabled Services (TES)
Emergence Capital Partners is a leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. Technology-Enabled Services or "TES" includes Software-as-a-Service, Information Services, Utility or Cloud Computing, Consumer and Business Services - all service businesses that use technology to scale efficiently. Our mission is to help build market-leading, TES businesses in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Our partners have funded and helped build over 40 TES companies, including market-leaders like Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, HireRight, aQuantive, DoubleClick, WebTV and many others. In addition to our investment experience in TES, we have relationships with virtually all of the leading TES companies, as well as many of the startups in the area. Our focus and team-based approach allow us to create unique value for our service-based portfolio companies.

Investment Categories

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

Consumer Services

Digital and Social Media

Information Services

Business Services

Cloud Computing

Investment Criteria

Early and growth-stage

Compelling customer value proposition

Market leadership potential

Experienced and passionate management team

$1-$10 million initial investment

US preferred

Experienced and Complementary Team
The Emergence team has a proven track record of founding, investing in and actively shaping more than 70 portfolio companies. Our partners bring over 40 years of venture experience, as well as over 25 years operating and entrepreneurial experience with established, blue-chip firms such as Venrock Associates, US Venture Partners, St. Paul Venture Capital, IBM and Salesforce.com. We have worked with dozens of entrepreneurs who have achieved successful IPO's, such as Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, HireRight, DoubleClick, Ask Jeeves, aQuantive , NetPerceptions, Lexar Media and Visual Networks, and we have helped them become leaders in their respective industries. We believe that we are the market-leading early and growth stage firm focused on opportunities in the TES sector, and we bring unique value to our portfolio investments. We understand how to build successful service businesses, and we can help service-based startups at each stage of their growth.

Unique Approach
The Emergence partners have a history of seeing opportunity where others have not. We founded Emergence Capital in 2003- at the bottom of the technology bust. Today we have $325 million under management. As entrepreneurs ourselves, we appreciate what it means to have deep passion for an opportunity, to bootstrap and creatively finance it, and recruit a founding team.

Because we have a singular focus on TES, all of our partners bring expertise that is relevant to each of our companies. This allows us to bring value and leverage from every member of our team to every one of our companies.

Entrepreneur Focused
We have a passion to build market leading companies, and we have direct experience in building our own firm, which is now a leader in TES. Our success, however, is merely a byproduct of the success of our entrepreneurial partners, and as a result we are aligned with their success. The Emergence Capital team has a reputation for strong partnerships with our management teams. We are company builders who partner with strong entrepreneurs to found and grow companies, help them raise the necessary capital, and successfully realize the value we help to create.