Stephen DeBacco is a Managing Partner with Leaders Fund. Headquartered in Atlanta and Toronto, Leaders Fund is an evergreen venture capital fund focused on investing in SaaS companies selling solutions to businesses.DeBacco has over 25 years of experience as an early-stage/founding executive team member at several extremely successful companies including Ariba, Workbrain and Rypple. His demonstrated operating expertise building and optimizing global sales and business development organizations contributed to rapid growth and profitable liquidity events on five separate occasions including public offerings for Ariba and Workbrain and corporate acquisitions for Workbrain, Empathica, Rypple and APT.DeBacco started his career at GM-Fanuc Robotics (GMF) where he worked with Keith Krach, the eventual co-founder and CEO of Ariba. DeBacco joined Krach and several other GMF alumni at Ariba to build the most successful B2B ecommerce network in the world achieving a $40 billion market capitalization. DeBacco replicated his success joining the executive team at Workbrain where he was responsible for building the first global enterprise workforce management sales organization. Similar success was achieved at Empathica, Rypple and Applied Predictive Technologies ultimately hiring over 500 sales and marketing executives contributing over $1B in software revenue. DeBacco, as part of the Leaders Fund team, is now combining his deep operating expertise with financial capital investment to help innovative companies realize their full potential.
Listed skills include Strategy, Salesforce.Com, Enterprise Software, Saas, and 15 others.
