Santiago Subotovsky

Santi received an MBA, with Distinction, from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in economics from St. Andrew's University in Argentina. He is also an Endeavor Entrepreneur.

Santi Subotovsky is a Partner at Emergence Capital Partners, a leading venture firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services investing. In this role, he supports the partnership performing industry and financial due diligence on both incoming business plans and portfolio companies. Santi has a particular interest in companies focused on cloud, SaaS, enterprise, and digital media. 

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Prior to joining Emergence, Santi was an advisor at Aqua Capital Partners where he assisted with the due diligence process for new technology investments and developed detailed models to facilitate analysis of companies. Santi was also a Summer Associate at Storm Ventures where he sourced opportunities and presented investment recommendations in the SaaS, enterprise software, and consumer internet spaces. 

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In 1999, Santi founded his own company, AXG Tecnonexo, the largest e-learning vendor in Latin America. He grew the company to 150 employees across Latin America and the US. To accelerate the company's international growth, Santi implemented a hybrid direct sales/strong channel partner approach for targeting large corporations. With this strategy the firm was able to secure contracts with blue-chip clients such as Bank of America, Coca Cola, DirecTV, and the World Bank. AXG Tecnonexo remains strong today and is backed by institutional investors.

Santi served his fellowship at Emergence Capital Partners under the mentorship of Gordon Ritter as a member of Class 15. He is mentor to Blake Koriath (Class 23).