Who Is Chris Sacca Wife, Crystal English Sacca? Here's What We Know About The American Investor

May 19, 2024

47-year-old Christopher Sacca, known simply as Chris Sacca, is an American venture investor, entrepreneur, company advisor, and lawyer.

He is also the proprietor of Lowercase Capital. Lowercase Capital is a venture capital fund in the United States that has invested in seed and early-stage technology companies like Twiter, Uber, Instagram, Kickstarter, and Twilio.

These investments have resulted in Sacca being number 2 on Forbes' Midas List: Top Tech Investors for 2017.

The venture investor has also held several positions at Google Inc. While at Google, he led the alternative access and wireless divisions while also working on mergers and acquisitions.

However, the public probably knows him best as a guest judge on ABC's Shark Tank between 2015 and 2017.

In early 2017, the venture investor announced that he was retiring from venture investing, but this departure would only last until 2021, when he announced that he was back into the field with a focus on climate issues.

Quick Facts About Chris Sacca

Age:	47
Net Worth:	$1.2 Billion
Profession:	Investor
Nationality:	American
Spouse:	Crystal English Sacca
Children:	3
Date of Birth:	May 12, 1975
Place of Birth:	Lockport, New York, United States
Alma Mater:	Georgetown University
Years Active:	2000 - Present

Who Is Chris Sacca's Wife, Crystal English Sacca?

Crystal English Sacca is an American venture investor like her husband, Chris Sacca.

She is most famous for her work in advertising, being an early investor in Uber and Blue Bottle Coffee through Lowerhouse Capital, her New York Times bestselling book, and her philanthropy. The earliest available information about Cyrstal is that she went to Georgetown University, where she attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and graduated with a B.S. in Foreign Service.

Next, she spent the early 2000s in advertising and served as an art director for high-end clients like Audi, Intel, Barclays, Napster, Sprint, and BO. She received many awards for her early work like a Cannes Lion and Two Gold Cannes Cyberlions, amongst other awards.

Lastly, she became an ADC Young Gun and one of AdWeek's Best Creatives You Don't Know.

As of 2018, Crystal served as producer of Mike Birbiglia's stage production of The New One. When it comes to investing, Crystal is a partner at the angel investing fund Lowercase Capital and the co-founder of Lowercarbon Capital's fund dedicated to environmental investing.

As stated above, she has also co-led early investments in companies like Uber and Blue Bottle, and her most recent investments include a producer of next-generation electric motors like Linear Labs. When it comes to books, Crystal has designed and co-authored many books on wine and whiskey.

Perhaps her most famous wine book, The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Wine Expert, came out in 2013 and instantly became a New York Times Bestseller.

The book was so successful that she wrote and released a follow-up book called The Essential Scratch and Sniff Guide to Becoming a Whiskey Know-It-All in 2015.

Crystal is also a very big philanthropist and, in 2019, was appointed to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's Board of Trustees. She is one of the founding members of The Design Vanguard, an organization dedicated to furthering a more just and beautiful world.

The organization has stated it wishes to do so through the efforts of creative leaders. When former president Donald Trump instated a Muslim travel ban in 2017, Crystal released her well-known Everyone Welcome painting in response.

Along with her husband, Chris, Crystal has signed the Giving Pledge, which is a commitment to give a majority of their wealth to charity. Speaking of Chris, Cyrstal has three daughters with the venture investor.

Learn More About Chris Sacca's Early Life And Family

Born on May 12, 1975, Chris Sacca was raised in a suburb of Buffalo called Lockport.

He was born to an attorney father and a mother who was a professor at SUNY Buffalo State. Sacca's family is of Irish and Italian descent, with his family originating from Calabria, Italy.

He has stated that his parents exposed him to various interests from a young age and that he was pulled out of school often to attend science museums and book readings.

After graduating high school, Sacca attended Georgetown University, where he studied at The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.

While studying at Georgetown, Sacca also spent semesters abroad at the Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, and Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

He ended his education with honors when he graduated in 1997 with a B.S. in foreign service and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar alongside a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. Sacca's achievements don't end there as he was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial scholar and a member of The Tax Lawyer law review.

What makes Sacca unique is that he graduated without attending class by obtaining class notes and throwing an annual keg party where the entry required classmates to dump their messages in a bin.

He furthered his studies at Georgetown University by graduating with a Juris Doctor in law and technology in 2000.

A Look At Chris Sacca's Career

Chris Sacca started his career while still at law school by using his student loans to create a company.

The initial venture proved unsuccessful, but he used the remaining funds to start trading on the stock market.

He discovered a flaw in the software of online trading brokers in 1998, and by leveraging trades for significant amounts, Sacca turned $10-20 thousand into $12 million by 2000.

Eventually, the market crashed, and Sacca suddenly found four million dollars in a negative balance. The businessman didn't falter and negotiated to have it reduced to $2.125 million and had it repaid by February 2005.

Sacca officially began his career in 2000 as an associate in the Silicon Valley company Fenwick & West.

While at Fenwick & West, he handled venture capital, acquisitions, mergers, and licensing transactions for tech clients like VeriSign, Macromedia, and Kleiner Perkins.

He only managed to last in the company for thirteen months and was laid in September 2001.

Sacca spent the next several months attending various networking events. He kept afloat by drafting contracts and doing voice-over work as a freelancer.

He then created The Salinger Group's consulting firm for networking purposes and landed at Speedera Networks in May 2002.

The following year, in November 2003, Google hired Sacca as a Corporate Counsel.

He would report to General Counsel David Drummond, and as part of the legal and business development team, his first mandate was to find large amounts of data space. He managed to do so by negotiating and signing agreements worldwide.

Sacca also served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. As the head, he led the alternative access and wireless divisions.

Among the many projects he led were the 700 MHz and TV spaces spectrum initiatives, the free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, California, and Google's data center in Oregon. He also led Google's many business developments and mergers and acquisitions transactions.

He was on the founding team of the company's New Business Development organization and was among the first Google employees given the company's highest honor, the Founders' Award. He started investing in companies while at Google, and he did so by becoming an angel investor.

He served as a professional advisor to companies for various matters like strategy, optimizing user experience, raising money, and selling a company.

Sacca's first angel investment was in Photobucket, which he sold to News Corp in 2007. He then invested in Twitter. This investment came about in 2006 when the entrepreneur Evan Williams started a microblogging service called Twitter and asked Sacca to support it.

Sacca invested $25,000 and started using the service as the 102nd user.

In 2007, Sacca took part in a $5 million financing round for Twitter and created four separate funds to buy as many Twitter shares as possible.

To that end, Sacca left Google in December 2007 to focus entirely on Twitter.

2007 was also the turning point in his angel investing. Sacca founded Lowercase Capital LLC three years later in Truckee and began investing in companies like Uber, Docker, Coptimzely, StyleSeat, Twitter, and Instagram. As he didn't have the corporate backup funding available to many companies, Sacca became very involved in his portfolio companies on a personal level.

He attended meetings on Twitter and Uber and even negotiated the rights for Uber.com from Universal Music Group. Although he wasn't on Twitter's payroll, the company recognized him as serving as a crucial adviser during the company's formative years.

As of 2017, Lowercase Capital had an investment portfolio of around 80 startups and a variety of more mature companies like Medium and Uber.

He stated that he was retiring from venture investing the same year and planned to retire at 40. To that end, he started appearing on various news stations as an expert on venture capital and investing in media.

He appeared on Business Week, Fortune magazine, the BBC, CNBC, FOX, and NPR. His most famous television role was as a guest judge in episode four of season seven of the Shark Tank in 2015.

He has since appeared in three other seasons, seven episodes, and invested in companies like HatchBaby, Bee Free Honee, Rent Like a Champion, and Brightwheel.

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Some FAQs

Is Chris Sacca Married?

Yes, he is married to Crystal English Sacca

Is Chris Sacca a Billionaire?

Yes, he has a net worth of $1.2 billion

Does Chris Sacca Have Children?

Yes, he has three daughters with Crystal English Sacca

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