SAPPHIRE VENTURES PERSPECTIVES

The events of 2020 have compounded the issues female founders face all over the world. In the U.S., despite overall VC funding remaining…

In this year’s iteration of Sapphire’s annual CIO Innovation Index survey , enterprise leaders again reported that industry analysts were…

This winter, , the world’s largest community of female venture investors, released a report on “The Untapped Potential of Women-led…

“ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change .” — Charles Darwin

“Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change.” — Milton Friedman

Like most companies, Sapphire Ventures converted all of our marketing events to virtual experiences at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Cars have been symbols of personal freedom since long before the seminal Beatles song. But while owning a car is associated with choice…

by Laura Thompson, Sapphire Partners

Open source software has taken over the world. From contactless mobile payments to online grocery shopping , open source plays an…

Raising capital as a first-time venture capital manager (or “VC”) is always challenging — primarily due to a lack of track record and…

Sapphire Ventures has had a long history of investing in fintech companies around the world, having backed Square (NYSE: SQ), IEX and…

By Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director, Sapphire Partners

Earlier this month, it closed a $125 million Series C funding round, and Sapphire Ventures is excited to have participated. The way we see…

I’m proud to announce that Sapphire Ventures has raised more than $1.4 billion in new capital commitments, bringing our total assets under…

There are few human connections as strong as the one that sports fans have with their teams. Entire identities are formed around local…

So it’s a surprise that as technology becomes embedded in nearly every facet of a business, seasoned IT executives and chief information…

Consumers are nowadays looking for experiences when they shop, go to restaurants or stay at a hotel. Psychological studies show that…

This article is a fresh take on a topic we originally explored in December 2016. Learn what changed when we went back and analyzed the…

Since 2014, Sapphire Ventures has been a passionate investor in the Chief Information Officer (CIO) ecosystem. It’s in our DNA to bring…

Since launching the Sapphire Ventures Portfolio Growth team 5 years ago, we’ve developed a network of CIOs, CTOs and digital executives at…

The way we work has fundamentally changed. A company’s success used to rest on its full-time, in-house workforce — yet today, the most…

When people think of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), they often think of elusive, sophisticated systems that…