SAPPHIRE VENTURES PERSPECTIVES

This post originally appeared on www.sapphireventures.com on Feb. 8th, 2019 and was written by Laura Thompson, a principal on the Sapphire…

“Put me in Coach! I’m Ready to Play…”

2018 was a strange year. The Red Sox won the World Series again, Kanye West and Donald Trump held a policy summit at the White House, and…

Despite promises to the contrary, businesses today must spend a great deal of time and effort collecting data. Even in 2019, many…

This is a guest post from Rob Krolik, General Partner and CFO at Burst Capital.

It’s a herculean effort to win over customers today. With an explosion of products and services and with information about new…

Startups that serve small businesses can become massive successes. Shopify, MINDBODY, GoDaddy, Trulia, Zillow, and Yelp are just a few…

Today we are excited to announce our lead investment in Contentful, a Berlin-based company transforming the content management space by…

At Sapphire’s 2018 CIO Summit, Databricks’ CEO Ali Ghodsi pointed out that the biggest gains in AI are quite boring. Shiny solutions like…

Building a company is hard. With every success and burst of growth, comes a new set of challenges that founders may not have experienced —…

Let’s face it: the real value of machine learning and AI for enterprises isn’t tantalizing or controversial — it’s boring, and that makes…

Sapphire Ventures recently brought together business and IT leaders representing more than $63B in annual IT spend for our CIO Summit 2018…

Over the years — as an operating executive, angel investor, board member, and now a VC at Sapphire Ventures — I’ve enjoyed being a…

Why NYC is increasingly an important center for tech innovation and investment

By Kevin Diestel, Partner, Sapphire Ventures and Jett McCandless, CEO, project44

By Rajeev Dham, Partner, Sapphire Ventures and Todd Olson, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Pendo

On July 10th, Sapphire Ventures hosted a private Product Leader Dinner to discuss the top challenges that product leaders face today. The…

Today at Sapphire Ventures, we are extremely excited to announce our lead investment in Reonomy, a New York based company that is…

On June 7th, Sapphire Ventures hosted our first Summer Sales Leader Event. At this event, VPs of Sales, Chief Revenue Officers, VPs of…

There is nothing like being ten years fashionably late to a party, though given VC interest investing into crypto[1], it seems like a good…

This post serves a part two of a two part series that samir kaji and I are co-authoring to help VC’s navigate through fundraising cycles…

By Rajeev Dham (Partner, Sapphire Ventures) and Manuel Medina (CEO, Outreach)

I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Sapphire Ventures to invest in transformational consumer technology companies and partner with…

Digital transformation involves bringing different thinking, innovation, business models and strategy into all aspects of the business to…