A New Era for Deep Collaboration
Issue 003
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🔦 FEATURED CONTENT
A new future for Deep Collaboration
By Jake Saper, General Partner at Emergence
With Adobe’s acquisition of Figma, Adobe is recognizing that its persona-based approach to software is the past, and Figma’s job-to-be-done-based (JTBD) approach is the future.
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🌟 THE LATEST
Promoting Yaz El-Baba to Principal
Yaz Promoted!! [photo??]
📰 PRESS
Our team featured in the news
Fast Company | What the Adobe-Figma deal says about the future of deep collaboration by Jake Saper
Wall Street Journal | Adobe, Figma Deal Signals New Era in Collaboration, Productivity featuring Jake Saper
💸 PORTFOLIO NEWS
Welcoming Regal.io and Federato to the Emergence portfolio
Regal.io, the outbound phone and SMS sales solution, announced their $38.5M Series A. Read more on Regal’s early success in TechCrunch, and our announcement from Jake Saper.
Federato announced their $15M Series A funding to continue to build upon their RiskOps platform for insurance underwriters. Read coverage in TechCrunch, and our announcement from Lotti Siniscalco.
🔮 PORTFOLIO JOBS
Looking for your next role?
Check out the open opportunities at our portfolio companies.
GTM & Business Operations
Convex — Director of Customer Success (Remote or SF)
Forma — Director of Customer Success (Remote)
Mezmo — Director of Growth Marketing (Remote)
Zipline — Director of Revenue Operations (Remote)
Eng, Product & Design
ASAPP — Sr. Director/VP, Data & Analytics (SF, NYC, Bozeman, or Remote)
Insightly — Director of Engineering (Remote or Canada)
Maze — Head of Data (Remote)
Zipline — Director of Product Design (Remote)
G&A/Operations
Convex — Director of Accounting (Remote or SF)
Gusto — Head of Talent Operations (SF, Denver, NYC, or Remote)
project44 — SVP Finance (Chicago)
Regal Voice — Sr. Director of Finance (New York)
Retain — Head of Finance (SF or Remote)
We have ~1,473 open roles on our portfolio jobs site. Check them out!
👀 EMCAP HAPPENINGS
We moved!
Earlier this month, the EmCap team opened our brand new office on Pier 5 in the Embarcadero of San Francisco. Creating our new space was a labor of love and could not have been completed without partnership across our teams.