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Bobby Yazdani is Founder and Partner of Cota Capital, a firm investing in private and public technology companies. Bobby works full time on the development and support of entrepreneurs through Cota Capital. Through his family office Signatures Capital and Cota Capital, Bobby has invested in over 200 private companies. In 2014, Bobby was ranked #1 out of 2000 angel investors for successful follow-on funding by CB Insights. Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) was Bobby’s first investment in 1989. In 2015, Bobby endowed the Signatures Innovation Fellowship at University of California, Berkeley to support data science projects with commercial promise. Bobby founded Saba in 1997, taking the company public in 2000. Saba was the pioneer of Learning Management and Talent Management Solutions, serving over 30 million people from 2,200 customers across 195 countries and in 37 languages worldwide. Prior to Saba, Bobby worked in various R&D roles at Oracle Corporation. Since making his first investment in Masimo Corporation (NASDAQ: MASI) in 1989, Bobby has successfully mentored entrepreneurs and invested in more than 150 companies, including: Aardvark (acquired by Google), AddThis (acquired by Oracle), Addepar, Atheer, Baarzo (acquired by Google), Berkeley Lights (NASDAQ: BLI), Bina Technologies (acquired by Roche), Bioniz, Blueprint Genetics (acquired by Quest Diagnostics), Bonobos (acquired by Walmart), Bossa Nova, Capella Space, CellFE, Checkr, Clear Labs, CleverSense (acquired by Google), CloudLending (acquired by Q2 Holdings), Collective Health, Compliance.ai, Correlia Biosystems, Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX), ESPER, Flat, Fortify, FundersClub, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Greensmith Energy (acquired by Wartsila (HEL: WRT1V)), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Gusto (formerly ZenPayroll), InstaEdu (acquired by Chegg), Klout (acquired by Lithium Technologies), Mission Bio, Movandi, NextBio (acquired by Illumina), OpenGov, ParkourSC, PassBan (acquired by EMC/RSA), Probius, Purigen Biosystems, QU, Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo!), RecVue, Rhombus Systems, Rollbar, Roostify, Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), Smartfrog Canary Group, SoundHound, SweetGreen (NASDAQ: SG), ThinkBig Analytics (acquired by Teradata), Truebill (acquired by Rocket Companies), Tubi (acquired by Fox Corp), Uber (NYSE: UBER), Vave, Webs.com (acquired by VistaPrint), Zymergen (NASDAQ: ZY), and more. Born in Tehran, Iran, Bobby completed high school in England and received a B.A. in Applied Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley.