Ken Sawyer
Venture Capital in San Francisco, California
Ken Sawyer is a managing director and founder of Saints, a venture capital and private equity firm founded in 2000 focused on providing liquidity for investors and founders of private companies. Saints has acquired investments in over 300 companies. Today, Saints manages over one billion dollars which has been invested in companies in the technology, healthcare, consumer and industrial industries. Since inception, Saints has had over 30 IPO's in both US and international markets, over 100 exits through acquisition, and generated almost a billion dollars of returned capital to its limited partners. With offices in San Francisco and London, partnerships is Los Angeles and Paris and many investments in Asia, Saints is the largest global direct secondary firm in the world.
Mr. Sawyer has been selected in the past as a member of the Forbes Midas list, where he was recognized as one of the top 100 investors in venture capital globally. Mr. Sawyer is also on the board of the Hope Street Group, a non-partisan effort to improve incentives in education, healthcare, and jobs.