Paul Levine

Paul Levine

Sapphire Ventures

About

Role

General Partner

Type

Multi-stage VC

Bio

Paul is a General Partner at Sapphire Ventures and leads investments in fintech, SMB/vertical SaaS, proptech, and marketplaces. He brings 20 years of experience as an operator and leader of high-growth organizations including Trulia, Zillow Group, Yahoo!, and E*TRADE. Paul is a board member at Restream and Side. He led Sapphire Ventures’ investments in AvidXchange, Mercury, and Tonal, and is active with investments in Current and Podium. Prior to joining Sapphire, Paul was president and COO of Trulia, where he helped lead Trulia’s transformation from a private 100-person company with $20 million in revenue, to a successful standalone public company and to its eventual merger with Zillow Group (NASDAQ: ZG) to create a company with more than 3,000 employees, $1 billion in revenue and $10 billion in market capitalization.

About Investments

Paul invests in growth-stage companies in fintech, SaaS, proptech, and marketplaces. Sapphire writes checks in the $10-75m range, and typically invests anywhere from Series B to later-stage growth rounds.

Investments

Stages

Series B and beyond

Check Range

$15M-$75M

Geography

Europe, Israel, US/Canada

Leads Rounds

Prefers to

Investment Highlights

AvidXchange, Current, Mercury, Podium, Restream, Side

Get in touch

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Disclaimers and footnotes

    Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided by Choice Financial Group, Column N.A., and Evolve Bank & Trust, Members FDIC. Deposit insurance covers the failure of an insured bank.