Steve Sarracino
Steve Sarracino is a technology investor and venture capitalist. He is best known for founding Activant Capital, a growth equity and venture capital firm focused on investing in growing technology businesses.[1][2]
Early life and education[edit]
Sarracino grew up in Irvine, California and holds a bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.[3]
Career[edit]
Sarracino founded Activant Capital in 2013. Sarracino previously was a founding member of Serent Capital and founded the Technology Group at American Capital. Prior, was with McKinsey & Co in Hong Kong and was senior member of the M&A team at Robertson Stephens.[4]
At Activant, Sarracino led investments in Better.com,[5] Bolt,[6] Deliverr, Indigo Agriculture,[7] NewStore, Turvo, RetailNext and Boxed. The firm has had several exits including hybris, an e-commerce software business that sold to SAP for $1.4 billion[8], Upland Software, which went public and the recent sale of predictive analytics company Celect to Nike.[9]
Personal life[edit]
Sarracino lives with his wife and three children in New Canaan, Connecticut.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Bloomberg Biography". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- ↑ "Activant Capital Techcrunch Coverage". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- ↑ "Bloomberg Biography". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- ↑ "Wall Street Journal Raises $250 Million". 2015-10-21. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- ↑ "Fortune Article on Better.com". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- ↑ "Forbes Article on Bolt". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- ↑ "PlayerFM article on Indigo Funding". Retrieved 2019-11-10.
- ↑ "Reuters article on SAP buying Swiss firm hybris to boost cloud services". Reuters. 2013-06-05. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ↑ "TechCrunch article on Nike's acquisition of Celect". Retrieved 2019-11-18.
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