📣 Just Released 📣 We’re excited to share Sifted’s Rising 100: The software-savvy startups scaling fast in 2024 across Europe and Israel! As the sponsor of the Rising 100 ranking and accompanying report, now in its third year, Sapphire Ventures is proud to congratulate the founders, CEOs, and companies listed for their strength and ability to innovate, affirming the market’s resilience and reinforcing our conviction in the boundless opportunities ahead. 🚀 The startups featured are working on diverse apps, sites, and platforms designed to kill repetitive tasks, train artificial intelligence, improve automation, combat cybersecurity threats to businesses, and more. See who made the Rising 100 B2B SaaS startup ranking and download the report to uncover the trends shaping these startups and the region: (Links in Comments). CC: Andreas Weiskam, Imogen M., & Georgie Davies #venturecapital #B2BSaaS #B2BSaaSRising100
Sapphire Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Menlo Park, CA 38,606 followers
Backing Companies of Consequence
About us
Sapphire is global software venture capital firm with $10B+ in AUM and team members across Austin, London, New York, Menlo Park and San Francisco. For more than two decades, Sapphire has partnered with visionary teams and venture funds to help scale companies of consequence. Since its founding, Sapphire has invested in more than 170 companies globally resulting in more than 30 Public Listings and 45 acquisitions. The firm’s investment strategies — Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport — are focused on scaling companies and venture funds, elevating them to become category leaders. Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators delivers a strategic blend of value-add services, tools and resources designed to support portfolio company leaders as they scale. To learn more about Sapphire, visit: https://sapphireventures.com.
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https://sapphireventures.com
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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- 51-200 employees
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- Menlo Park, CA
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- Venture capital, Enterprise IT, investing, sports technology, B2B, SaaS, Enterprise Technology, Entrepreneurship , VC firm, Fund investing, Data, AI, Open Source, DevOps, Sales Tech, Analytics, Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Fintech, Healthcare, Consumer Tech, Growth Stage Investor, Late Stage Investor, Unicorns, Business SaaS, Artificial Intelligence, LP, Limited Partner, General Partner, and GP
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556 Santa Cruz Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025, US
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42-46 Princelet Street
Whitechapel, Spitalfields E1 5LP, GB
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801 W 5th St
Suite 100
Austin, Texas 78703, US
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439 Bryant St.
San Francisco, CA 94107, US
Employees at Sapphire Ventures
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Valuations for generative AI startups have surged, with early-stage companies seeing median valuations jump from $46M to $70.6M between 2023 and Q1 2024. 📈 However, this influx of funding towards AI is masking a broader crisis within the startup world… Sapphire Ventures Partner Rajeev Dham spoke with PitchBook VC Reporter Rosie Bradbury for her latest article on the AI gold rush. “If you strip away the AI deal-making frenzy, a harsh reality of today’s fundraising landscape comes into full view: More startups are pushing the limits of how long they can go before replenishing their cash reserves.” With AI as the exception, there’s a growing divide and crisis brewing in other parts of the startup world. Read the full story at the link in the comments. #VentureCapital #Startups
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📢 Now available — Sapphire Ventures Spotlight Newsletter, our Summer 2024 edition! As we move into the latter half of 2024, we’re sharing our latest market insights and news, including… 🚀 Sapphire Ventures led the Series B for AI-powered product discovery and search platform Constructor and no-code automation platform Creatio; doubled down on Huntress, a fully managed cybersecurity platform for SMBs, co-leading their Series D; and raised our stake in digital fraud detection startup BioCatch. 📰 Our partners Jai Das and Casber Wang shared their insights on the latest trends in defense tech, cybersecurity and AI, as well as the state of the market and exit environment. 📚 We shared new resources, including how Sales AI is reinventing GTM, how generative AI models are transforming app development, Sifted’s B2B SaaS Rising 100, and most recently, our mid-year review of The State of the SaaS Capital Markets that evaluates how we’re measuring up towards our 2024 predictions. 🎉 We brought AI founders, investors and reporters together at Newcomer’s Cerebral Valley AI Summit where the major takeaway was loud and clear: Don’t wait for foundation models to get smarter—start now. We also welcomed 200+ engineering leaders at Sapphire’s 3rd Annual Hypergrowth Engineering Summit where we focused on building and deploying with AI. Stay tuned for our recap blog and on-demand videos coming soon! ➡️ Sign up for our newsletter below to get updates straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/g2eNtmsZ #VentureCapital #AI #SaaS #InvestmentTrends
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We've just released our 2024 Mid-Year Update on The State of the SaaS Capital Markets, a comprehensive reassessment of the trends and activities that have shaped the enterprise SaaS landscape this year. 🚀 In January, we offered predictions based on a detailed analysis of past trends and current data. Now, with 1H behind us, Sapphire Ventures’ Steve Abbott, Kevin Burke and Jake DellaPasqua dive back in to see how those predictions are holding up and what new trends are emerging. We’ve graded our own papers and now invite you to do the same. Let us know where you think we’re on track and where your opinions differ as we continue to watch the enterprise SaaS markets play out in 2H. 👇 Download the report and read the blog for a recap (Links in Comments) #SaaS #VentureCapital #EnterpriseSoftware
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According to PitchBook, less than $30 billion in exit value–including IPOs and M&A— was generated to send back to LPs in Q2. Sapphire Ventures President, Partner, and Co-Founder Jai Das recently shared his perspective with Madeline Renbarger and Eric Newcomer on the scarcity of exits challenging the venture industry, highlighting the then proposed acquisition of cybersecurity firm Wiz by Google for $23 billion as a noteworthy outlier, which was recently called off. 👇 “I think it’s an exception. Wiz has always been an exceptional company even when it started.” Read more in Newcomer (Link in Comments). #VentureCapital #Startups
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Following Wiz deal discussions and Crowdstrike’s global system-wide outage, the cybersecurity sector is witnessing a notable upswing in venture capital activity. 👀 In Q2, total deal value within the sector increased 18% over the previous quarter, reaching $3.8 billion generated across 171 deals. Sapphire Ventures Partner Casber Wang shared his optimism on the industry with PitchBook’s Jacob Robbins, noting heightened interest within the sector. The increased investor attention is not only energizing existing companies but also attracting new players to the market, poised to innovate and capitalize on emerging opportunities. Read more in PitchBook (Link in Comments) #Cybersecurity #VentureCapital
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🦄 Four companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in June 2024, and we’re proud to share that two of them are Sapphire Ventures portfolio companies: 👏 Creatio, a no-code platform for CRM and enterprise workflows, raised $200M and reached a$1.2 billion valuation. 👏 Huntress, a fully managed cybersecurity platform for SMBs, raised a $150 million Series D and reached a $1.5 billion valuation. Congratulations to Creatio CEO Katherine Kostereva and Huntress CEO Kyle Hanslovan! Read the article to learn more about the companies joining The Crunchbase Unicorn Board who are surprisingly not pure-play AI companies. 👀 (Link in Comments) #CompaniesofConsequence #Startups
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A glimpse into our Enterprise Cloud & AI Leaders Dinner during the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit New York! 🌟 We were thrilled to bring together enterprise leaders in our network from companies like Nasdaq, CIBC, JPMC, Blackrock, SAP, Wells Fargo, and GenRe, alongside innovative tech and product leaders from portfolio companies like Zesty, Own Company, CircleCI, Catchpoint, as well as Modal and Warp. The evening was buzzing with engaging discussions and we hope to make this an annual tradition. Thank you to all the leaders who joined us! CC: Derek Asbun & David Carter #AWSsummit #TechLeaders #Innovation
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A recent report by the Silicon Valley Defense Group revealed that top national security startups have received less in government contracts than what venture capitalists have invested. 🔎 The top 100 venture capital-backed national security startups have raised a combined $53 billion in private funding since their inception. Those same startups have collectively earned $22 billion in revenue from federal awards, $6 billion of which came from the Defense Department. Sapphire Ventures President, Partner and Co-founder Jai Das shared his perspective with The Wall Street Journal’s Marc Vartabedian in his Question of the Week, highlighting that the metric comparing business won to invested capital is misleading as it overlooks the military’s appetite for innovative technologies from startups. Read more insights from Jai below and the full newsletter. Plus, check out our blog on the latest trends in defense tech and why we believe it’s set to become a thriving industry.👇 (Links in Comments) #VentureCapital #DefenseTech
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Exciting to see how far we've come since Google's IPO, and even more exciting to think where #AI is taking us next. OpenAI dramatically entered the tech scene, echoing Google's disruption from two decades ago, yet today's tech giants are not standing by idly — they're actively defending their turf. Thanks for including my perspective on these transformative shifts, Benjamin Pimentel.
Where were you when #Google went public? I had just started covering tech. Check out my report for Investor's Business Daily on the 20th anniversary of the landmark IPO next month. "I wouldn't have predicted Google would be this big," Jai Das of Sapphire Ventures told Investor's Business Daily. "If you go back and see who has won in a big environment and dominated from scratch, it's only Google." In an industry known for scrappy startups disrupting tech titans, a question now hangs over Google: Will that happen again in the age of AI? #OpenAI burst onto the tech scene in spectacular fashion, akin to the way Google rocked the tech world two decades ago. But the Silicon Valley tradition of David vs. Goliath disruption is playing out differently this time around. Upstarts led by OpenAI rattled industry giants led by Google. Unlike 20 years ago, today's tech titans are pushing back hard — and could fend off the challengers. As Robert E. Siegel of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business said: "The big tech companies today are not asleep at the wheel."
Google Stock, 20 Years After IPO, Offers Notes In Disruption For Its AI Challengers | Investor's Business Daily
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