We Are Highspot
Meet our board of directors and venture capital investors.
Board of Directors
Robert is Highspot’s co-founder and CEO, leading our mission to transform the way that millions of people work. Prior to founding Highspot in 2012, Robert spent more than 15 years as Corporate Vice President of the Server and Tools Division at Microsoft. A veteran entrepreneur, he also co-founded Colusa, a cross-language virtual machine that was acquired by Microsoft in 1996.
Oliver, our co-founder and Chief Solution Architect, is passionate about partnering with customers to solve their growth and enablement challenges. Oliver has co-founded various companies, including Colusa, which was acquired by Microsoft, and iTurf, which he helped to take public in 1999. Oliver is also the author of the industry’s definitive guide to sales enablement.
Tim is a managing director at Madrona Venture Group, where he has been investing in enterprise technology founders and companies since 2006. His investments span Cloud, Predictive Analytics, SaaS, DevOps and Microservices. Prior to Madrona, Tim worked in corporate development at Microsoft where he sourced, structured and negotiated acquisitions, closing 14 transactions for over $850 million. Tim started his career at a start-up in the satellite communication market. He has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University.
Doug joined ICONIQ Capital in 2019 as part of the growth equity team. Prior to ICONIQ, Doug was managing director at Shasta Ventures, where he focused on investing in SaaS and mobile companies that help enterprises to optimise relationships with customers and employees. Prior to Shasta, Doug was a general partner at InterWest Partners for 15 years. He was the first investor in Marketo (MKTO) and served on its board of directors for 10 years through its successful IPO. In addition to Marketo, Doug has invested in nearly a dozen SaaS companies along the customer journey. Doug began his career as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York focusing on technology and healthcare before working in business development at Amazon.com. Doug received his B.A. degree from Dartmouth College and M.B.A. degree from Stanford University.
Tracey is the former president of Informatica, where she served as a member of Informatica’s board of directors prior to being asked to join Informatica’s management team. As president of Informatica, Tracey was responsible for global sales, marketing, sales operations, and customer success. Prior to Informatica, Tracey has held sales leadership roles at Proofpoint, Polycom, Cisco, and more. She currently serves on the board of three companies: Sailpoint, Sumo Logic, and Highspot. Tracey is also an advisor for Blackrock’s Long Term Private Capital Group. Tracey also serves in a nonprofit organisation known as Impact 100, whose mission is to unite women to make a difference in our communities.
Investors
ICONIQ Capital is a privately-held financial advisory and investment firm and a partner of choice for exceptional entrepreneurs, leaders, and institutions around the world. The firm invests in technology growth equity, middle market buyout, and real estate asset classes and employs a distinctive ecosystem to build enduring businesses. ICONIQ is a trusted advisor fostering meaningful strategic relationships across industries to source powerful ideas, magnify global impact, and support a new generation of entrepreneurs and companies.
Salesforce is the fastest growing top five enterprise software company and the #1 CRM provider globally. Salesforce Ventures—the company’s corporate investment group—invests in the next generation of enterprise technology that extends the power of the Salesforce Intelligent Customer Success Platform, helping companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways. Portfolio companies receive funding as well as access to the world’s largest cloud ecosystem and the guidance of Salesforce’s innovators and executives. With Salesforce Ventures, portfolio companies can also leverage Salesforce’s expertise in corporate philanthropy by joining Pledge 1% to make giving back part of their business model.
OpenView is an expansion-stage venture firm helping build software companies like Instructure, Kareo, Datadog, and Expensify into market leaders. Through their Expansion Platform, they help companies hire the best talent, acquire and retain the right customers, and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets. Their focus on the expansion stage makes them uniquely suited to provide truly tailored operational support to their portfolio companies.
Shasta Ventures is a leading early-stage venture capital firm partnering with bold creative entrepreneurs who are passionate about building great products and amazing experiences. Founded in 2004, Shasta Ventures has funded more than 100 companies specializing in consumer and enterprise technology with a focus on emerging platforms across both sectors. Investments include Apptio, Dollar Shave Club, Mint, Nest and many promising private companies such as Anaplan, Eero, Glint, Leanplum, Nextdoor, Smule, Turo, Zuora and more. The firm is based in Menlo Park and San Francisco, California.
Madrona is a venture capital firm based in Seattle, WA. With more than 25 years of investing in early stage technology companies, the firm has worked with founders from day one to help build their company for the long run. Madrona invests predominantly in seed and Series A rounds across the information technology spectrum, and in 2018 raised the first fund dedicated to initial investments in acceleration stage (Series B and C stages) companies. Madrona manages over $2 billion and was an early investor in companies such as Amazon, Smartsheet, Isilon, Redfin, and Snowflake.
Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm with $10B+ in AUM and team members across Austin, London, New York, Menlo Park and San Francisco. For over a decade, Sapphire has partnered with visionary teams and venture funds to back companies of consequence. Since its founding, Sapphire has invested in more than 170 companies globally, resulting in more than 30 Public Listings and 45 acquisitions. The firm’s investment strategies — Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport — are focused on scaling companies and venture funds, elevating them to become category leaders. Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators delivers a strategic blend of value-added services, tools and resources designed to support portfolio company leaders as they scale.
Tiger Global is a New York-based investment firm focused on public and private companies in the global Internet, software, consumer, and financial technology industries. Their mission is to generate world-class investment returns over the long term in a way that makes their partners and portfolio companies proud as they build a unique, global investment platform. They partner with dynamic, industry-leading companies in high-growth markets. Tiger Global’s portfolio of investments includes Highspot, Facebook, Alibaba, Square, and more.
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