Steve Abbott

Partner at Sapphire Ventures

Speaker

Steve is a partner at Sapphire Ventures, an $11B AUM venture capital firm focused on directly investing in the best growth-stage software companies globally and the best early-stage VC managers. Steve’s areas of technology focus include vertical and horizontal applications software, as well as the modern data and analytics stack. Steve is responsible for the firm’s capital markets activities, and he currently serves as a board director or observer for Clari, Catchpoint, OpenX, Project44, PubNub and Reltio. Steve is a also a founding partner of the firm’s early-stage sports, media and entertainment technology investing initiative, Sapphire Sport.

Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures, he was a managing director in technology investment banking at Deutsche Bank, UBS and Jefferies, where he led more than 100 financings and M&A transactions. Earlier in his career, Steve was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company, worked in technology corporate finance at Robertson Stephens, and was a technology entrepreneur. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, with highest honors, an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a JD from Stanford Law School.