Jake Saper
General Partner·Emergence Capital
Bio
Professional summary
Jake Saper is a General Partner at Emergence Capital, where he has spent more than a decade working with entrepreneurs building enterprise technology companies. His official profile says he invests across AI-native services, agentic software, and physical-world AI. Examples named by Emergence include Mechanical Orchard, Strala, Hanover Park, Unify, Ironclad, Logik.ai, Rowspace, Bedrock Robotics, and DroneDeploy. He previously worked in management consulting, solar projects across emerging markets, and venture investing at Kleiner Perkins before joining Emergence. He holds degrees from Yale and Stanford.
Investment focus
Stage, sector, and overall fit
Stage
Sector
Thesis
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
How to approach
Framing and angles for outreach
Pitch framing
Lead with a crisp thesis about how AI changes an enterprise service, workflow, or software category, and show evidence that the company can become a category-defining platform rather than a feature. Jake’s profile is particularly aligned with AI-native services, agentic software, and AI that touches the physical world.
Partneralization hooks
- 1Reference his AI-native services thesis and the AI-Native Services Playbook.
- 2Compare your company’s wedge to examples named on his profile such as Mechanical Orchard, Hanover Park, Rowspace, or Bedrock Robotics.
- 3If relevant, connect the pitch to enterprise AI that replaces manual professional services or operational work.
Recent signals
What the partner has said or done recently
Published or was associated with Emergence content on whether SaaS companies should become services businesses in May 2026.
Authored or was associated with the AI-Native Services Playbook in March 2026.
Emergence lists his March 2026 post on why the firm backed Hanover Park’s Series A.
Emergence lists his February 2026 post on backing Rowspace.
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