Jake Saper
Jake Saper is a General Partner at Emergence Capital, where he has spent over a decade investing in enterprise technology companies. He led diligence on Emergence's 2014 investment in Zoom and currently invests in AI-native services, agentic software, and physical world AI startups. He is best known for coining the term "AI-Native Services" (AINS) through his April 2024 essay "The Death of Deloitte," in which he argued that AI would fundamentally reshape professional services industries such as law, accounting, and insurance. He holds a BA from Yale and an MS and MBA from Stanford, and is a Kauffman Fellows Class 20 alumnus.
“VCs are betting that the next wave of startup value creation won't come from selling software, but from owning and delivering the underlying services themselves — in law, accounting, and insurance.”
Source→“I dropped by the offices of AI-native law firm Crosby to listen in on a small summit organized by investor Jake Saper.”
Source→“Roll-ups vs. AI-Native Services. Here's the download on why some VCs are betting that startups will build AI-native law firms & insurance companies.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.