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The event is happening today! Shortly, I will be speaking with Jai Das, who serves as a managing director at Sapphire Ventures.

This discussion is a component of the second season of our Extra Crunch Live program, which has featured numerous investors and founders engaging with TechCrunch to discuss their professional experiences.

Das is joining us at an opportune time: He made an early investment in MuleSoft, which was acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion in 2018. Salesforce is anticipated to reveal its acquisition of Slack later today, potentially prior to our conversation. Regardless, we will be questioning Das regarding the process of selling companies, specifically to Salesforce, and analyzing the implications for the enterprise software mergers and acquisitions landscape.

You can find recaps from the previous Extra Crunch Live session featuring Bessemer’s Byron Deeter here.

As previously mentioned last week, we will also explore the function of corporate venture capital in 2020 and the years ahead, the current status of investing in companies from their early stages through growth, Sapphire’s involvement in funding rounds from Series A through Series C, startups focused on APIs, and the impact of geographic location on founding teams during the pandemic, among other topics.

This promises to be an enjoyable event! It begins in just a few hours. Please verify your Extra Crunch account access, follow the link, add the event to your calendar, and feel free to submit any questions you would like me to consider beforehand. For now, I will be selecting an appropriate outfit for Zoom and rehearsing my introduction.

The broadcast is starting very soon! We’ll see you shortly.

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