Emergence Capital Partners has promoted Santi Subotovsky to partner.
The firm has also promoted Joe Floyd to principal and is hiring three new team members: Jake Saper as senior associate, John Chen as associate and Julia Mailander as marketing manager.
"Emergence Capital is investing in the future of the firm, and we are thrilled to promote both Santi and Joe. They have both been with the firm for a number of years and have helped identify and build fantastic cloud companies," says Gordon Ritter, co-founder and general partner at Emergence Capital Partners. "We are also excited to welcome three new team members who have great experience working with enterprise cloud leaders. At Emergence we see a tremendous opportunity to build on our first decade of success, and we know that Jake, John, and Julia will be great additions to the team."
Subotovsky has led the firm's investments in Civitas Learning and Top Hat, two fast-growing companies that are leveraging the cloud to improve educational outcomes. He also spearheaded Emergence Capital's first bitcoin investment in Xapo in July 2014. Before joining Emergence, he was an entrepreneur who founded his own company, AXG Tecnonexo, the largest e-learning vendor in Latin America.
Prior to Floyd's promotion to principal, he was a senior associate at Emergence working with many of the companies in Emergence's portfolio, including Box, Cotap, and Bill.com. He has also worked in American Capital's technology group, where he focused on investing in fast-growing Internet and software companies, and previously he was an associate with McKinsey.
Saper joins the team having just completed his MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before joining Emergence, he worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' Green Growth Fund, where he sourced and led diligence on companies in the geospatial, agricultural technology, and enterprise SaaS sectors.
Chen is coming from Box, where he worked directly for Aaron Levie as the special assistant to the CEO after graduating from Harvard. He also managed strategic projects at Box.
Mailander joins Emergence from Euclid Inc, a San Francisco-based retail SaaS company, where she was a marketing manager.
