Jason Babcoke

Co-Founder, Managing Director - Sumeru Equity Partners

📍 San Francisco, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2011
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Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2011
Talend, a Qlik company, is a global leader in data integration and data management, is taking the work out of working with data. Organizations of all sizes in every industry are struggling to deliver on the potential value of data. Talend combines enterprise-grade data integration, quality, governance, and application and API integration in an end-to-end platform to unify data across any cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. Innovations like the Talend Trust Score™, which instantly quantifies the reliability of any dataset, remove barriers to becoming data driven. With Talend’s no-code and low-code solutions, data experts and business users alike can actively collaborate to discover, transform, govern, and share data across the organization. Over 7,250 customers rely on Talend’s complete, flexible, and trusted platform for modern data management that drives real business value. Top analyst firms and industry media consistently recognize Talend as a leader in data management software. For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on Twitter: @Talend
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2014
Managing Director
2014
Sumeru Equity Partners is a technology-focused private equity firm that invests $50-$250 million in leading mid-market software, technology enabled services, and hardware companies with a focus on growth. Sumeru was founded by an experienced team from Silver Lake Sumeru with significant first-hand operating experience. Our strategy and operating experience enables us to take a flexible approach to deal types and investment structures including growth funding, founder transitions, buyouts, take-privates, recapitalizations, and corporate divestitures. Sumeru’s engagement model centers on partnering with management teams and investing in go-to-market, product, and operations to drive growth and strategic positioning.
2011
Investor & Board Observer
Aug 2011
Talend, a Qlik company, is a global leader in data integration and data management, is taking the work out of working with data. Organizations of all sizes in every industry are struggling to deliver on the potential value of data. Talend combines enterprise-grade data integration, quality, governance, and application and API integration in an end-to-end platform to unify data across any cloud, hybrid, or multi-cloud environment. Innovations like the Talend Trust Score™, which instantly quantifies the reliability of any dataset, remove barriers to becoming data driven. With Talend’s no-code and low-code solutions, data experts and business users alike can actively collaborate to discover, transform, govern, and share data across the organization. Over 7,250 customers rely on Talend’s complete, flexible, and trusted platform for modern data management that drives real business value. Top analyst firms and industry media consistently recognize Talend as a leader in data management software. For more information, please visit www.talend.com and follow us on Twitter: @Talend
Principal
Jul 2011
Silver Lake Sumeru invests in middle-market technology companies with established business models and attractive growth prospects where there is an opportunity to create value through operational transformation. Silver Lake Sumeru combines specialized technology sector knowledge, rigorous due diligence processes and a network of industry relationships to create a significant competitive advantage in executing its investment strategy.
2008
Investment Professional
Jul 2008
STG is a private equity firm focused on funding innovative software and software-enabled tech services leaders in the mid-market. In addition to capital, STG provides transformation expertise to enable its portfolio companies to deliver more value to clients to retain and attract the best talent and to achieve best-in-class business performance.