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.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 322 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- 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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