An industry veteran with extensive investment and operational experience, Nina Saberi founded Castile to bring capital, deep industry expertise and hands-on management experience to a new generation of entrepreneurial businesses. Under her leadership, Castile has grown to be ranked among the most active and respected VC firms in New England.
Ms. Saberi has an investment focus on cloud-based services, networking and ecommerce infrastructure. She is currently executive chair at VGo Communications and serves on the boards of Agiliance, Aurora Networks and RatePoint. Ms. Saberi was the founding VC and lead director at Ahura Scientific (acquired by Thermo Fisher), and was an investor and director at Brix Networks (acquired by EXFO), ChosenSecurity (acquired by PGP/Symantec) and GeoTrust (acquired by VeriSign). She led Castile's investments in Sonus (NASDAQ:SONS), Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC), and Trapeze Networks (acquired by Belden) and she was chairman of the boards of Quantiva (acquired by NetScout) and Stargus (acquired by C-COR). Ms. Saberi joined the venture community as a general partner at OneLiberty Ventures.
Prior to OneLiberty Ventures, Ms. Saberi was president and CEO of venture-backed Netlink, acquired by Cabletron as one of the top three acquisitions of its year. During her operating career, she successfully led Amnet to its acquisition, managed an international joint venture for Data General and Singapore Telecom and held executive marketing and engineering positions at BBN and Avanti Communications.
In 2010, Ms. Saberi was recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the top VCs in the East, and in 2006 by Mass High Tech as an All Star in Finance. She is the Chairman Emeritus of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (formerly known as the Massachusetts Network Communications Council) and currently serves on the President’s Advisory Council at University of Rhode Island where she received her BS in Electrical Engineering. In 2007, URI honored Ms. Saberi with the President's Distinguished Achievement Award. She is a frequent speaker at venture capital and entrepreneurial events, a faculty member for Babson’s fast track MBA program, and a guest lecturer at Bentley and Harvard.
