Sapphire Ventures is a fund of funds and venture capital firm in California that focuses on helping technology companies become Companies of Consequence. Founded 1996 in Palo Alto, California, United States by Andreas Weiskam, David Hartwig, Doug Higgins, Jai Das, and Nino Marakovic, the company invests in venture rounds. Its portfolio companies include Netskope, OpsRamp, Currencycloud, One97, and Highspot. As of February 2020, Sapphire Ventures has made 222 investments. Their most recent investment was on February 6, 2020, when Netskope raised $340M. Sapphire Ventures has had 70 exits, the most notable of which include Square, Fitbit, and Localytics. Sapphire Ventures has raised eight funds, their latest being Sapphire Ventures Fund IV. This fund was announced on December 18, 2019 and raised a total of $1.4B.
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A technology company that has developed solutions for making and receiving payments. It was founded in 2009 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Looker is a business intelligence software company providing data access tools to organizations and data analysts.
TransferWise is a company that offers money transfers services founded by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus
Mixhalo is a technology company that has created a closed wifi network capable of transmitting audio in near real-time from a sound source to an app on a smartphone. It was founded in 2016 and is located in San Francisco, California.
PlayVS is a company providing a platform for e-sports competitions for high school students.
DataRobot sells a machine learning platform that helps users build and deploy accurate predictive models. The Boston-based company was founded in 2012 by Jeremy Achin.
Segment is a company providing a data infrastructure for businesses.
A company offering a cloud platform for digital product creators and product development teams.
A software company offering application programming interfaces (APIs) for managing, integrating, and delivering content to any device or service.
Moveworks is an AI, machine learning, enterprise natural language understanding (NLU) and chatbot platform that resolves IT Service Desk support issues.
U.S-based company providing cloud infrastructure for global software and hardware development and deployment.
A technology company with service as a software that is a team management tool for businesses and companies. Founded in 2012, it is located in Tel Aviv, Israel and also has an office in New York City.
A company offering a software platform for the commercial real estate industry that is leveraging big data and machine learning.
ThoughtSpot is a Palo Alto, California-based company.
Exabeam is a San Mateo, California-based data security analytics company offering cybersecurity and early cyber attack detection software.
OpsRamp is a IT Operations management software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that provides visibility and control of cloud and on-premises infrastructure and point tools through discovery, monitoring, alert management, artificial intelligence and automation.
Inkling is a company that develops a mobile learning enablement platform for businesses.
An employee analytics platform in Melbourne that focuses on surveying and analytics.
Currencycloud is a London-based company founded by Nigel Verdon.
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Nino Marakovic
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David Hartwig
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Elizabeth "Beezer" Clarkson
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Jai Das
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Rami Branitzky
Managing Director
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