Roger Sippl Overview
- Investor Type
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Angel
- Status
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Active
- Investments
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9
- Portfolio
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5
- Exits
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3

Roger Sippl General Information
Description
Mr. Roger Sippl serves as Partner at Sippl Investments. Mr. Sippl serves as Board Member at Filtini and Headwater Research. He also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer and Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Elastic Intelligence. Roger Sippl is a Silicon Valley software pioneer, entrepreneur, and innovator. His 30 years of contributions have helped shape the enterprise software technology landscape of today. In 1980 he founded Informix Software, taking it public in 1986. Under his leadership, Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, report generators, screen data entry packages, 4GL application development tools, and scalable OLTP database technology. It is now a part of IBM, after surpassing a $4B market cap as a public company. Roger was also co-founder and Chairman of the Vantive Corporation. Vantive became a leader in CRM and, as a public company, achieved a $1B market cap, and is now a part of PeopleSoft/Oracle. In 1993, he founded Visigenic Software, helping pioneer distributed object computing and the concept of the application server (based on CORBA, prior to the J2EE standard) in enterprises. Visigenic was acquired by Borland, after becoming a public company. After the Visigenic IPO Roger earned the "Golden Hat Trick Award" from Cristina Morgan at JP Morgan/Hambrecht and Quist for three Silicon Valley IPOs.
Business Details
Investor Status
Primary Investor Type
Corporate Office
- 499 Seaport Court
- Building S, Office 302
- Redwood City, CA 94063
- United States
Roger Sippl Investments (9)
Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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Particle (Information Services (B2C)) | 17-Apr-2024 | Early Stage VC | Information Services (B2C) | Generating Revenue | ||
Dokkio | 18-Nov-2019 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Heighten Software | 22-Sep-2015 | Automation/Workflow Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Aviso (Business/Productivity Software) | 08-Apr-2015 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Aviso (Business/Productivity Software) | 30-Apr-2014 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Splice Machine | 30-Apr-2014 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | |||
Talkwheel | 16-Apr-2014 | Business/Productivity Software | Profitable | |||
NuoDB | 24-Feb-2014 | Early Stage VC | Database Software | Generating Revenue | ||
IFTTT | 05-Jan-2012 | Seed Round | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue |
Roger Sippl Exits (3)
Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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NuoDB | 25-Nov-2020 | Merger/Acquisition | |
Heighten Software | 30-May-2017 | ||
Talkwheel | 26-Feb-2016 |
Roger Sippl Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
Roger Sippl Co-Investors (16)
Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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Axel Springer | 1 |
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Bruce Falck |
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Jason Goldman |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners |
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Max Mullen |
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Roger Sippl FAQs
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Who is Roger Sippl?
Roger Sippl is an angel Investor who has made 9 investments.
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What kind of investor is Roger Sippl?
Roger Sippl is an angel investor.
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What does Roger Sippl do?
As an angel investor, Roger Sippl invests personal money into promising companies, typically in exchange for equity.
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How many board seats does Roger Sippl hold?
Roger Sippl holds a board seat in Headwater Research.
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What has Roger Sippl invested in?
Roger Sippl has made numerous investments in companies like Particle (Information Services (B2C)), Dokkio, and Heighten Software within the Information Services (B2C), Business/Productivity Software, and Automation/Workflow Software industries.
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What has Roger Sippl invested in recently?
Roger Sippl's latest investment was on 17-Apr-2024 in Particle (Information Services (B2C)), a company within the Information Services (B2C) industry.
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