Jake Saper

General Partner @ Emergence Capital | Long AI-Native Services

📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested May 2026𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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11
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3
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Founding Investor
May 2026
We partner with organizations to solve high-impact problems using AI—starting from first principles and deploying systems in real-world environments.
Investor, Series B
Nov 2025
Bedrock Robotics brings advanced autonomy to the built world, helping the construction industry build at the pace todays society demands. Our technology upgrades existing heavy equipment, enabling truly autonomous operation with expert level quality and superhuman safety. At a time when we need to build faster than ever—from housing to data centers to factories and energy infrastructure—autonomous construction isnt just an innovation, its an economic necessity.
Investor, Led Seed Round
Mar 2025
AI Phone Agents for Healthcare. Prospers AI Agents handle calls to payors and patients with human-like expertise while cutting costs by over 50%. Whether it’s claims status checks, benefit verification, prior authorizations, patient scheduling, or balance reminders, our agents are always on call - literally. Our bigger goal? To wipe out $200B in admin waste, freeing healthcare to focus on what it does best—healing, not holding.
Investor
Feb 2023
Logik.ai is an end-to-end omnichannel CPQ platform designed to drive sales performance and enable optimized customer experiences for any business selling complex products or services. Embedded with first-to-market AI innovation, Logik.ai is an API-first, fully composable solution that combines dynamic product discovery, a proprietary configuration and solving engine, centralized transaction management, customized pricing logic, and flexible customer agreements. Founded in 2021 by CPQ industry veterans and backed by Emergence Capital, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, High Alpha, and Permanent Capital Logik.ai is redefining how businesses can maximize revenue through CPQ and digital commerce. For more information, please visit www.logik.ai.
Board Observer
Aug 2019
Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies, powering billions of contracts every year. LOréal, Salesforce, OpenAI and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. Its the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. Ironclad is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Leader in the Forrester Wave, member of the Forbes AI 50, and a Top Company to Bet Your Career On by Business Insider. The company is backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com
Board Observer
Aug 2016
Textio has developed the world’s most advanced workplace language guidance, so you can see where social bias is hiding—and know exactly how to fix it. Our solutions help organizations attract, develop, and retain diverse, inclusive, and equitable teams—at scale. Textio was named Washington’s Best Midsize Company to Work for by Seattle Business Magazine and one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. Textio was founded in Seattle, but now we’re a fully distributed team working from eight states across the U.S. If you live in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Texas, or Washington, let’s talk!
Board Observer
May 2016
Comfy is on a mission to create amazing workplace experiences for everyone—from the people who operate the building to the people who fill it. With expertise in machine learning, UX design, and enterprise service, we create great relationships between people and their workplaces.
Investor, Series B
Apr 2015
Our mission is to grow the small business economy 🤝 Trusted by 400K+ businesses with HR, payroll, benefits, 401(k)s, and more. Licensing details: https://gusto.com/about/licenses
Board Observer
Mar 2015
Build with certainty, operate with confidence. That’s why thousands of construction, oil and gas and renewable energy companies use DroneDeploy on a daily basis. We help them automate reality capture using drones, robots and 360 cameras – combining this data in one platform for AI-powered analysis. From aerial and ground views of construction progress to automated gauge readings and methane leak detection, DroneDeploy is shaping the future of reality capture.
Investor
Dec 2014
Bring teams together, reimagine workspaces, engage new audiences, and delight your customers –– all on the Zoom AI-first work platform you know and love. 💙 Zoomies help people stay connected so they can get more done together. We set out on a mission to make video communications frictionless and secure by building the world’s best video product for the enterprise, but we didn’t stop there. With products like AI Companion, Team Chat, Contact Center, Phone, Events, Rooms, Webinar, Contact Center and more, we bring innovation to a wide variety of customers, from the conference room to the classroom, from doctor’s offices to financial institutions to government agencies, from global brands to small businesses. We do what we do because of our core value of Care: care for our community, our customers, our company, our teammates, and ourselves. Our global employees help our customers meet happier, communicate better, and create meaningful connections the world over. Zoomies are problem-solvers and self-starters, working hard to get results and moving quickly to design solutions with our customers and users in mind. Here, youll find room to grow with opportunities to stretch your skills and advance your career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment. Learn more about careers at Zoom by visiting our careers site: https://careers.zoom.us/home
Experience · 13 entries
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Investments (11)
Board (4)
2026
Founding Investor
May 2026
We partner with organizations to solve high-impact problems using AI—starting from first principles and deploying systems in real-world environments.
2025
Investor, Series B
Nov 2025
Bedrock Robotics brings advanced autonomy to the built world, helping the construction industry build at the pace todays society demands. Our technology upgrades existing heavy equipment, enabling truly autonomous operation with expert level quality and superhuman safety. At a time when we need to build faster than ever—from housing to data centers to factories and energy infrastructure—autonomous construction isnt just an innovation, its an economic necessity.
Investor, Led Seed Round
Mar 2025
AI Phone Agents for Healthcare. Prospers AI Agents handle calls to payors and patients with human-like expertise while cutting costs by over 50%. Whether it’s claims status checks, benefit verification, prior authorizations, patient scheduling, or balance reminders, our agents are always on call - literally. Our bigger goal? To wipe out $200B in admin waste, freeing healthcare to focus on what it does best—healing, not holding.
2023
Investor
Feb 2023
Logik.ai is an end-to-end omnichannel CPQ platform designed to drive sales performance and enable optimized customer experiences for any business selling complex products or services. Embedded with first-to-market AI innovation, Logik.ai is an API-first, fully composable solution that combines dynamic product discovery, a proprietary configuration and solving engine, centralized transaction management, customized pricing logic, and flexible customer agreements. Founded in 2021 by CPQ industry veterans and backed by Emergence Capital, Salesforce Ventures, ServiceNow Ventures, High Alpha, and Permanent Capital Logik.ai is redefining how businesses can maximize revenue through CPQ and digital commerce. For more information, please visit www.logik.ai.
2019
Board Observer
Aug 2019
Ironclad is the #1 contract lifecycle management platform for innovative companies, powering billions of contracts every year. LOréal, Salesforce, OpenAI and other leading innovators use Ironclad to collaborate and negotiate on contracts, accelerate contracting while maintaining compliance, and turn contracts into critical carriers of operational business intelligence. Its the only platform flexible enough to handle every type of contract workflow, whether a sales agreement, an HR agreement or a complex NDA. Ironclad is a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Leader in the Forrester Wave, member of the Forbes AI 50, and a Top Company to Bet Your Career On by Business Insider. The company is backed by leading investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND. For more information, visit www.ironcladapp.com
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