Emergence

What they do

Emergence is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage enterprise companies. Its mission is to be the most valuable partner to the companies changing the way the world works. In 2017, the firm was named Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Business Insider named Emergence one of the Top 10 Best Performing Venture Funds that launched at the turn of the decade, and posted returns as high as 50%. The firm’s investments include companies such as Salesforce (CRM), Veeva Systems (VEEV), Box (BOX), Zoom (ZM), SuccessFactors (SFSF, acquired by SAP), Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Zoom, ServiceMax (acquired by GE) and Intact (acquired by Sage). For more information on Emergence, visit and follow @emergencecap.

What they look for

Emergence seeks early bets on emerging business models-historically horizontal and vertical SaaS, and currently AI infrastructure, physical world AI, and AI-Native Services (AINS)-with each partner making only one investment per year.

Stage

Series A

Sectors

AI, SaaS, Fintech

Based

San Francisco, US