Jim Sanger

Managing Partner and Founder at Second Alpha Partners

📍 New York, New York, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 25 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Board Member / Investor
Oct 2019
Founded by industry experts in 2014, Healthcare.com is a data-driven, intelligence-informed marketplace where millions of consumers have explored, shopped for and enrolled in health insurance and Medicare plans. We put care, data, and a decade of experience into helping you choose the right plan. With us you can easily shop health plans for individuals, for families, for seniors. Trusted by 10 million customers a year, Healthcare.com is the data-driven choice that matches you to the right health insurance plan. We use proprietary data and machine learning technology to match consumers with distributors, ensuring each consumer gets enrolled in the right plan for them and their families. Healthcare.com also operates Pivot Health, an insurance marketing company and healthcare services provider that offers a variety of coverage options to consumers on behalf of top-ranked insurance carriers and healthcare organizations. We develop custom health insurance programs and coverage solutions in partnership with insurance carriers. In addition to our own solutions, we have put together a portfolio of non-proprietary health insurance and healthcare solutions that we believe meet the needs of our individual members. Our products range from short-term medical insurance, dental and vision, supplemental indemnity, and accident and illness products.
mid stageInsurance
Board Observer / Investor
2016
EverQuote’s vision is to become the largest online source of insurance policies by using data, technology and knowledgeable advisors to make insurance simpler, more affordable and personalized. Based in Cambridge the company is one of the fastest growing technology firms in Cambridge & Boston history.
Board Member / Investor
2008
Applied Identity’s access policy enforcement solutions deliver exceptional time-to-value to organizations seeking to address regulatory compliance requirements and manage business risk. Applied Identity’s solutions are used to secure critical systems, implement guest networks, protect enterprise networks from breaches and ease audit overhead with user identity-based network usage reports. Gartner named Applied Identity a cool vender in identity and access management in 2008, and in 2009, Red Herring recognized the company as one of the 100 best start-ups in North America.
Board Member / Investor
2008
Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™.
Board Member / Investor
2004
Gomez was successfully acquired by Compuware in 2009 to become part of its Application Performance Management business unit. Our Application Performance Management business Unit is now called Dynatrace For more information on our product offerings, please see our corporate company page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dynatrace?trk=nmp_rec_act_company_photo
Board Observer / Investor
2003
Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based security, compliance and IT solutions with more than 10,000 subscription customers worldwide, including a majority of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and automate their security and compliance solutions onto a single platform for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings. The Qualys Cloud Platform leverages a single agent to continuously deliver critical security intelligence while enabling enterprises to automate the full spectrum of vulnerability detection, compliance, and protection for IT systems, workloads and web applications across on premises, endpoints, servers, public and private clouds, containers, and mobile devices. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has strategic partnerships and seamlessly integrates its vulnerability management capabilities into security offerings from cloud service providers, including Amazon Web Services, the Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure, along with a number of leading managed service providers and global consulting organizations. For more information, please visit http://www.qualys.com.
Board Observer / Investor
2003
Board Observer / Investor
2001
SS&C Intralinks is a leading financial technology provider for the global banking, dealmaking and capital markets communities. As pioneers of the virtual data room, our technology enables and secures the flow of information, empowering our customers to work more productively and with complete confidence. Intralinks facilitates strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and investor reporting. Our solutions enhance these business-critical processes by streamlining operations, reducing risk, improving client experiences and increasing visibility. Start your next big deal now. Go to: https://www.intralinks.com/products/mergers-acquisitions/virtual-data-room For a full list of locations visit https://www.intralinks.com/contact/locations Twitter: @intralinks INsights Page: https://www.intralinks.com/insights Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/intralinks/ Instagram: @intralinks https://www.youtube.com/intralinks
Board Member / Investor
2001
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2019
Board Member / Investor
Oct 2019
Founded by industry experts in 2014, Healthcare.com is a data-driven, intelligence-informed marketplace where millions of consumers have explored, shopped for and enrolled in health insurance and Medicare plans. We put care, data, and a decade of experience into helping you choose the right plan. With us you can easily shop health plans for individuals, for families, for seniors. Trusted by 10 million customers a year, Healthcare.com is the data-driven choice that matches you to the right health insurance plan. We use proprietary data and machine learning technology to match consumers with distributors, ensuring each consumer gets enrolled in the right plan for them and their families. Healthcare.com also operates Pivot Health, an insurance marketing company and healthcare services provider that offers a variety of coverage options to consumers on behalf of top-ranked insurance carriers and healthcare organizations. We develop custom health insurance programs and coverage solutions in partnership with insurance carriers. In addition to our own solutions, we have put together a portfolio of non-proprietary health insurance and healthcare solutions that we believe meet the needs of our individual members. Our products range from short-term medical insurance, dental and vision, supplemental indemnity, and accident and illness products.
mid stageInsurance
2016
Board Observer / Investor
2016
EverQuote’s vision is to become the largest online source of insurance policies by using data, technology and knowledgeable advisors to make insurance simpler, more affordable and personalized. Based in Cambridge the company is one of the fastest growing technology firms in Cambridge & Boston history.
2012
Managing Partner and Founder
2012
Second Alpha Partners is a private equity firm focused on secondary investments, mainly purchases of direct interests in private companies from existing shareholders. The firm also invests capital directly in private companies that meet its investment criteria, usually in tandem with making secondary purchases of shares. Second Alpha Partners has offices in New York. For more information visit SecondAlpha.com.
2008
Board Member / Investor
2008
Applied Identity’s access policy enforcement solutions deliver exceptional time-to-value to organizations seeking to address regulatory compliance requirements and manage business risk. Applied Identity’s solutions are used to secure critical systems, implement guest networks, protect enterprise networks from breaches and ease audit overhead with user identity-based network usage reports. Gartner named Applied Identity a cool vender in identity and access management in 2008, and in 2009, Red Herring recognized the company as one of the 100 best start-ups in North America.
Board Member / Investor
2008
Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™.
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