Full bio
I'm an investor with Emergence Capital. We're a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that focuses exclusively on SaaS and cloud business applications. We've been involved with some of the biggest names in this space including Salesforce, SuccessFactors, Yammer, Box and Veeva Systems. I represent Emergence as a Board Observer for Replicon and Bill.com.
Prior to Emergence, I was a Senior Associate in the technology group of American Capital, a $20 billion dollar US private equity firm. I was responsible for sourcing, executing and monitoring 7 investments (e.g. People Media, HomeAway) representing $150MM in assets under management.
I earned an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I also graduated with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley with a BA in Economics and a BS in Business Administration. I am a currently a Kauffman Venture Capital Fellow.
Enterprise Cloud / SaaS Blog:
www.josephfloyd.com
Published Thoughts:
TechCrunch - http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/24/how-to-tell-if-youre-burning-money-too-fast/
Entrepreneur - http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232102
TechCrunch - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/06/virality-is-the-x-factor-of-mobile-first-business-apps/
VentureBeat - http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/14/why-saas-is-the-secret-to-success-in-the-business-marketplace/