Ramin Sayar Email & Phone Number

I am focused on investments in Cloud Infrastructure, SaaS, AI Infrastructure, Generative AI Applications, Cybersecurity, and Data Analytics. This transition from operator, advisor, and board member to full-time venture capital feels like a natural progression for me. My experience leading Sumo Logic through growth and IPO, along with my background in product development and go-to-market strategies, provides a unique perspective on the challenges of scaling in dynamic tech markets. Why DFJ Growth?They are a premier growth-stage investment firm dedicated to supporting emerging technology leaders during their scaling phases. The DFJ Growth team consists of seasoned entrepreneurs, operators, and investors who empower founders as they navigate hypergrowth and beyond.What truly distinguishes DFJ Growth is their ability to identify transformative technology trends and companies poised for leadership before they become apparent. Their exceptional support during my time at Sumo Logic, along with the collaborative culture cultivated by Randy, Barry, John, and the entire team, resonates deeply with my values. Some notable investments by DFJ Growth include:OpenAI: Pioneering artificial intelligence researchSpaceX: Transforming space technologyTesla: Leading the electric vehicle revolutionCoinbase: Empowering the crypto economyUnity: Driving the future of interactive 3D contentScale AI: Enabling machine learning with AI-powered dataxAI: Advancing AI for the benefit of humanityStripe: Revolutionizing online payment processingOutreach: Innovating AI-powered sales engagement

As an LP, we focus our investments in hi-tech venture and private equity funds in both domestic and international markets and across all stages. Additionally we make seed investments in select hi-tech companies in AI, Cyber, Cloud and Infra.

Wilmington, De, Us

Currently serve as an Independent Director and a member of the Audit and Cyber Committees. Previously was a member of the Nominating and Governance (NGC) Committee. Phreesia helps medical groups and health systems leverage patient intake to achieve their strategic objectives. When we founded Phreesia in 2005, we saw an opportunity to put innovative technology into the hands of patients. Today, we facilitate more than 54 million patient visits annually through a robust platform of applications, including patient registration, revenue cycle, clinical support, appointments and patient activation. Phreesia is a technology company, but our goal is to improve healthcare—one patient visit at a time.

Campbell, California, Us

Currently serve as an Independent Director and a member of the Compensation Committee as well as helping with scaling the business and overall GTM strategy.Founded in 2018, Campbell, CA-based Acceldata has developed the world's first enterprise data observability platform to help enterprises build and operate great data products. Acceldata's flagship offering is its enterprise data observability platform, which integrates multiple functionalities to ensure data quality and reliability. This platform is designed to address various aspects of data management, including anomaly detection, cost control, and policy automation, by leveraging advanced AI technologies and large language models (LLMs). Acceldata's solutions have been embraced by global customers, such as Dun & Bradstreet, Nestle, PubMatic, PhonePe (Walmart), HCSC, and many more. Acceldata investors include Insight Partners, March Capital, Industry Ventures, Lightspeed, Sorenson Ventures, Sanabil, and Emergent Ventures.

Working with various startup founders, leaders and executives to help them build out their product, go-to-market and business strategies. Have been mentoring multiple product leaders and GTM entrepreneurs as they build out their startups and engineering/sales/marketing teams. Over the past few years, I have been helping advise other peers and 1st time CEOs as they develop growth strategies, funding strategies and board management/structures.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

In December of 2023 Tessian was acquired by Proofpoint. Tessian’s mission is to secure the human layer. Using machine learning technology, Tessian automatically stops data breaches and security threats caused by human error – like data exfiltration, accidental data loss, business email compromise and phishing attacks – with minimal disruption to employees’ workflow. As a result, employees are empowered to do their best work, without security getting in their way.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

After multiple rounds of financing from marquee venture firms, taking the company public in September 2020 and growing the business from ~$10M to over $300M in Revenue, we eventually sold the business to private equity in June 2023. Sumo was a wonderful experience and growth opportunity personally and professionally. Our purpose is to empower the people who power modern businessIn 2010, a small team of machine data experts with deep domain in log management, scalable systems, Big Data, and security, had a different idea: to empower digital business through real-time analytics delivered as a service. And, Sumo Logic was born.Sumo Logic's Continuous Intelligence platform immediately transforms Machine Data into Intelligence. Sumo's cloud-native SaaS helps customers achieve unprecedented application and operational efficiencies, stronger security intelligence, and analytics capabilities and more streamlined compliance with regulatory mandates by providing real-time actionable insights. Sumo Logic is backed by the most impressive list of early, late-stage and cross over investors which include: Greylock, Sutter Hill Ventures, Accel, Sequoia, DFJ, IVP, Sapphire, Battery Ventures, Tiger Global, Franklin Templeton and more. Our mission is to Democratize and transform Machine Data into opportunities for intelligence to more effectively Build, Run and Secure Modern Applications/Infrastructure.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

JFrog’s mission is to provide better technologies and tools for software developers. JFrog has changed the way developers store and manage binaries and allows for complete control over the full software release flow. JFrog provides leading products such as Artifactory and the launch of Bintray, deemed “the missing link in social software distribution” by peers.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Ramin Sayar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager at VMware for the Cloud Management Business Unit. While at VMware he developed the fastest growing $1B business unit, ground up built an organization >1,000 and secured VMware as the market leader in virtualization and cloud management. Ramin responsibilities included developing the business and product strategy, R&D, Operating P&L, Product Mgmt & Marketing & field/business Operations.

Indore, Madhya Pradesh, In

Ramin joined HPSW from the Mercury acquisition and served as the VP of Products at HP Software where his organization was responsible for the Business Service Management (BSM), Business Service Automation, IT Service Management and Universal Configuration Management Database (UCMDB) suite of products. Additionally Ramin was responsible for developing the HPSW strategy and solutions for Virtualization, Data Center Automation solutions and the Private Cloud.

Senior Director of Product Marketing and Management for the Mercury Business Availability Center (formerly Topaz). Responsible for all outbound and inbound aspects for the Product line.

Santa Clara, California, Us

I lead the effort and worked on the emerging products for B2B exchanges/marketplaces, Enterprise Portals and XML Development tools

New York, Ny, Us

I worked on the Commerce Exchange line of products that enabled and streamlined B2B commerce. I worked in the iPlanet Software group where by Netscape Enterprise Software/IP was licensed to Sun Microsystems and together AOL/Sun created a jointly owned SW Business which included Sun Soft/Java/JavaSoft.

Bachelors, Bachelor Of Arts And Premed

Mba, Business And Marketing Strategy