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Sapphire Ventures
Fund Of Funds, Venture Capital · Founded 2006 · Menlo Park, United States
The funds Sapphire Ventures backs.
Sapphire Ventures is a limited partner in 12 funds. 3 of them place in the Power Law Investor Ranking; those lead, best-ranked first.
Sapphire Ventures’ biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Sapphire Ventures still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Sapphire Ventures directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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1
Cyera
4%
$12.0B
$360M
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2
FalconX
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$8.0B
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3
Glean
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$7.2B
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4
DataRobot
10.5%
$6.3B
$662M
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5
Grafana Labs
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$6.0B
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6
Mercury
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$5.2B
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7
6Sense
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$5.2B
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8
Temporal
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$5.0B
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9
BetterUP
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$4.7B
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10
Outreach
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$4.4B
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11
ThoughtSpot
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$4.2B
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12
Sword Health
8.5%
$4.0B
$340M
Estimated value = Sapphire Ventures’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Sapphire Ventures also appears inside investor groups in Clay, Glean, Grafana Labs, Kong, LangChain, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Sapphire Ventures’ biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Sapphire Ventures’ transaction record.
Where Sapphire Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 226 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA203
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Germany9
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UK9
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Canada5
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India5
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Finland2
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France2
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Israel2
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Australia1
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Austria1
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Netherlands1
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Pakistan1
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Enterprise Software131
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Marketing39
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Fintech32
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Security29
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Media21
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Health13
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Telecom13
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Jobs Recruitment7
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Education5
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Gaming5
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Legal5
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Sports5
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Series B+173
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Series A39
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Seed12
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Late Growth138
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Breakout Stage83
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Early Growth17
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Mature5
Inside Sapphire Ventures’ portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 226 tracked.
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LoWhere Sapphire Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.
198 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States140
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Israel12
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Germany5
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Austria4
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Canada4
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Portugal4
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United Kingdom4
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Australia3
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Brazil2
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India2
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University of California, Berkeley9
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Stanford University8
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Carnegie Mellon University6
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
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Harvard Business School5
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University of Southern California5
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Yale University5
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Harvard University4
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Indian Institute of Technology, Madras4
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Tel Aviv University4
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Microsoft17
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Alphabet | Google13
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PwC5
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Sunopsis5
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Tangosol5
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Amazon4
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HP Enterprise4
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Meta4
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Morgan Stanley4
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Salesforce4
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Sapphire Ventures.
