Sean Jacobsohn

Sean Jacobsohn is a partner at Norwest and a former enterprise cloud executive with broad technology, sales, and business development expertise. He focuses on early to late-stage investment opportunities in enterprise cloud, including mobile-first business applications, human-assisted AI, B2B marketplaces, and industry cloud solutions.

Sean was previously a venture partner at Emergence Capital Partners where he focused on enterprise cloud investments, after being an executive and advisor at Emergence Capital portfolio companies Hightail and Doximity, respectively. Previously he was VP of Channel Management at Cornerstone OnDemand (NASDAQ: CSOD), a human capital management software-as-a-service provider. Sean helped grow the company from $7 million to $75 million in revenue and 300,000 subscribers to over 7.5 million. Before his tenure at Cornerstone OnDemand, Sean was VP of Sales and Partner Development at WageWorks (NYSE: WAGE), a leading provider of consumer-directed spending solutions, which grew from $3 million to $82 million in revenue during his tenure. Prior to WageWorks, he was at Upwork (NYSE: UPWK), the world’s largest marketplace of contractors.

Sean holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA in Marketing, Finance, and International Business from the University of Wisconsin. He's co-founder of the HBS Alumni Angels, the largest university-affiliated angel group in the world, and is the Founder, Chief Historian, and Collector for the Failure Museum.