Sapphire Ventures
sapphireventures.com Direct + LP
Sapphire Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in expansion-stage enterprise software companies, with a focus on AI. It also has a fund investing arm that backs early-stage venture funds.
Sapphire Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Austin, United States, founded in 2011. It invests both directly in companies and in funds as a limited partner, from Series B to growth, in enterprise software, AI, data and security. $10B+ under management and 140 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We partner with Enterprise AI founders building Companies of Consequence.”
— Sapphire Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct + LP
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Austin, United States
- Invests in
- US, Europe, Israel
- Sectors
- enterprise software, AI, data, security, fintech, healthcare, developer tools, marketing
- Founded
- 2011
- Assets under management
- $10B+
- Portfolio
- 140 companies
Team, as Sapphire Ventures publishes it
- Nino Marakovic Partner, CEO
- Jai Das Partner, President
- Rajeev Dham Partner
- Cathy Gao Partner
- Anders Ranum Partner
- Andreas Weiskam Partner
- Steve Abbott Partner, Capital Markets
- Rami Branitzky Partner
- Jason Brooke Principal
- Demi Obayomi Principal
- Alex Lehman Vice President
- Adam Liu Vice President
Names and roles exactly as listed on sapphireventures.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 322 co-investors found.
- Founders Circle Capital, LLC 14 shared companies: intercom.com, falconx.io, auth0.com, monday.com…
- Lightspeed Venture Partners 12 shared companies: falconx.io, cyera.io, glean.com, grafana.com…
- Geodesic Investments, L.L.C 9 shared companies: datarobot.com, pendo.io, glean.com, thoughtspot.com…
- Iconiq Capital 9 shared companies: highspot.com, glean.com, betterup.com, gem.com…
- Salesforce Ventures 8 shared companies: onebrief.com, highspot.com, ownbackup.com, betterup.com…
- Axevil Capital, LLC 8 shared companies: intercom.com, clay.com, glean.com, grafana.com…
- IVP 8 shared companies: langchain.com, glean.com, gamma.app, circleci.com…
- B Capital 8 shared companies: 6sense.com, clari.com, datarobot.com, falconx.io…
- Index Ventures 7 shared companies: cultureamp.com, anrok.com, chaidiscovery.com, intercom.com…
- Amplify Partners 6 shared companies: chaidiscovery.com, temporal.io, langchain.com, gorgias.com…
and 312 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Sapphire Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://sapphireventures.com/name, is_investor, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, aum, status
- https://sapphireventures.com/fund-investing/layer, invests_in_geographies
- https://sapphireventures.com/companies/portfolio_count
- https://sapphireventures.com/team/people
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