Sapphire Ventures

Sapphire Ventures, LLC
IndustryVenture Capital
Founded1996
HeadquartersMenlo Park, California, U.S.
Key people
Total assets$10.2 billion[1]
Websitesapphireventures.com

Sapphire Ventures (stylized as SAPPHIRE) is a venture capital firm with offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, Austin, and London.[2][3] The firm is considered one of the world's premier venture capital firms.[4]

The firm primarily invests in Series B through IPO technology companies, as well as tech-focused early stage venture firms, seed, and Series A early-stage sports, media, and entertainment start-ups.[2]

Notable Sapphire-backed companies include 23andMe,[5] Alteryx,[6] Auth0,[7] Block (Square),[8] Box,[9] Current,[10] Degreed,[11] DocuSign,[12] Fitbit,[13] IAS,[14] JumpCloud,[15] Kaltura,[16] Linkedin,[17] Livongo,[18] Looker,[19] MuleSoft,[20] Monday.com,[21] Paytm,[22] Ping Identity,[23] Sumo Logic,[24] Wise (TransferWise).[25]

  1. ^ "UNIFORM APPLICATION FOR INVESTMENT ADVISER REGISTRATION AND REPORT BY EXEMPT REPORTING ADVISERS" (PDF). sec.gov.
  2. ^ a b Katie Roof (4 February 2021). "Sapphire Ventures Raises $1.7 Billion After Year of Big Exits". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved November 30, 2021.
  3. ^ "Sapphire Ventures secures largest capital raise to date across two new funds". TechCrunch. 2021-11-30. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  4. ^ Baker, Kendall (2022-10-27). "The rise of sports as investment". Axios. Retrieved 2022-11-01.
  5. ^ Clark, Kate (2019-12-18). "SAP spinout Sapphire Ventures raises $1.4B for new investments". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  6. ^ Gage, Deborah (2013-05-20). "Alteryx Raises $12M for Big Data Analytics". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  7. ^ "Auth0 Announces $55M in Series D Funding". Auth0 - Blog. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  8. ^ Schimroszik, Nadine; Mukherjee, Supantha (2021-10-21). "SAP's results get boost from cloud business, venture capital firm". Reuters. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  9. ^ Hoge, Patrick (2013-10-02). "SAP Ventures to invest hundreds of millions in Bay Area companies". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  10. ^ "Former Wall Street Trader Raises Series C for Current Challenger Bank - SWFI". www.swfinstitute.org. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
  11. ^ "Sapphire Ventures-Backed Degreed Raises $153M To Digitally Transform Education". CB Insights Research. 2021-04-15. Retrieved 2022-03-23.
  12. ^ Boslet, Mark (2012-07-13). "DocuSign Raises $47.5M from KP, SAP, Accel, Others. KP's Meeker Joins Board". PE Hub. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  13. ^ "Fitbit raises $43 million in new funding". Fortune. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  14. ^ Network), FleishmanHillard (Wire News (2015-07-31). "Integral Ad Science Raises $67 Million to Fund Advancements in Technology and Further Global Expansion". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  15. ^ Miller, Ron (2021-09-13). "JumpCloud raises $159M on $2.56B valuation for cloud directory tool". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  16. ^ Ventures, Sapphire. "Sapphire Ventures to Expand European Reach Following Unveiling of Nearly $2bn in New Capital Commitments". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  17. ^ "LinkedIn Raises $22.7 Million from Goldman Sachs, The McGraw-Hill Companies, SAP Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners". press.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  18. ^ "Livongo Health Completes $44.5M Funding to Support Growth, Expand Health Platform". www.businesswire.com. 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  19. ^ "Sapphire fancies Looker in $30m series B". Global Venturing. 2015-03-11. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  20. ^ "MuleSoft Raises $37 Million to Connect the New Enterprise". MuleSoft. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  21. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (2019-07-30). "Monday.com raises $150M more, now at $1.9B valuation, for workplace collaboration tools". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  22. ^ "From Masayoshi Son to Warren Buffett ⁠— some of the world's biggest billionaires have a stake in the success of Paytm IPO". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  23. ^ "Ping Identity Receives $35 Million in Additional Funding Led by New Investor KKR". www.pingidentity.com. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  24. ^ "Sumo Logic Completes $75 Million Funding Round". Sumo Logic. Retrieved 2022-11-10.
  25. ^ "TransferWise raises $280 million from Old Mutual, IVP and others". Reuters. 2017-11-02. Retrieved 2022-11-10.