Roger Sippl Overview
- Investor Type
- Angel
- Status
- Active
- Investments
- 8
- Portfolio
- 5
- Exits
- 3

Roger Sippl General Information
Description
Mr. Roger Sippl serves as Partner at Sippl Investments. He also co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer and Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Elastic Intelligence. He also serves as Board Member at Filtini. 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.
Contact Information
- 499 Seaport Court
- Building S, Office 302
- Redwood City, CA 94063
- United States
Roger Sippl Investments (8)
Company Name | Deal Date | Deal Type | Deal Size | Industry | Company Stage | Lead Partner |
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Dokkio | 18-Nov-2019 | Later Stage VC | 00.000 | Application Software | Generating Revenue | 00000 00000 |
00000000 00000000 | 22-Sep-2015 | 00000 (00000 | 00.000 | Automation/Workflow Software | Generating Revenue | 00000 00000 |
00000 00 | 08-Apr-2015 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 00000 00000 |
00000 00 | 30-Apr-2014 | 00000 00000 | 000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 00000 00000 |
000000 0000000 | 30-Apr-2014 | 00000 00000 | 0000 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 00000 00000 |
000000000 | 16-Apr-2014 | 00000 (00000 | 00.00 | Business/Productivity Software | Profitable | 00000 00000 |
NuoDB | 24-Feb-2014 | Early Stage VC | 000.00 | Database Software | Generating Revenue | 00000 00000 |
IFTTT | 05-Jan-2012 | Seed Round | 00.00 | Business/Productivity Software | Generating Revenue | 00000 00000 |
Roger Sippl Exits (3)
Company Name | Exit Date | Exit Type | Exit Size |
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NuoDB | 25-Nov-2020 | Merger/Acquisition | |
00000000 00000000 | 30-May-2017 | 000000000000000000 | |
000000000 | 26-Feb-2016 | 000000000000000000 |
Roger Sippl Investments by Industry, Year, and Region
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Request a free trialRoger Sippl Team (1)
Name | Title | Deals | Funds | Boards | Office |
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Roger Sippl | Angel Investor | 00 | 0 | Redwood City, CA |
Roger Sippl Co-Investors (2)
Name | With | Exits | Lead Partner | Series | Industry |
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Alex Vikati | 1 | 0 |
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Edwin Ong | 0 | 0 |
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