Sapphire Ventures, Interview with CEO Nino Marakovic
Summary
Prior to the venture capital industry, he worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Robertson Stephens.Nino: For our direct growth investing business, our primary focus has been, and will continue to be, innovative, fast-growing companies in the enterprise technology space.Sectors that are particularly exciting to us today include artificial intelligence and machine learning; cloud computing; SaaS; big data and analytics; health tech and fintech.Entrepreneurs need to marry that idea with grit and a smart, talented management team that can bring the product, and ultimately the business, to scale.At Sapphire, we’re very committed to our culture – we spend a lot of time making sure that the people we work with both inside of our organization and in the entrepreneurial community share our values – that they are ambitious, dedicated to winning, have a high degree of integrity, and are incredibly passionate about building a great team.