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Navigating the Future of Healthcare: 4 Major Trends & Pivotal Questions to Explore in 2024
Navigating the Future of Healthcare: 4 Major Trends & Pivotal Questions to Explore in 2024
Written with Aditya Reddy and Andrew Vogeley
Cathy Gao
Jan 30
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AI: Paving the Future of Digital Healthcare
AI: Paving the Future of Digital Healthcare
Written with Andrew Vogeley
Cathy Gao
Feb 8, 2023
Rise of the Digital Health Enablement Stack: How Technology is Accelerating Innovation for Modern…
Rise of the Digital Health Enablement Stack: How Technology is Accelerating Innovation for Modern…
Written with Aditya Reddy
Cathy Gao
Sep 20, 2022
The Future of AI Infrastructure is Becoming Modular: Why Best-of-Breed MLOps Solutions are Taking…
The Future of AI Infrastructure is Becoming Modular: Why Best-of-Breed MLOps Solutions are Taking…
When people think of AI and machine learning, self-driving cars, robots or supercomputers often spring to mind. But in reality, the AI use…
Casber Wang
Mar 9, 2022
Coming Into the Spotlight: How Customer Success Can Turbo-Charge Subscription Growth
Coming Into the Spotlight: How Customer Success Can Turbo-Charge Subscription Growth
Why there’s never been a more important time to invest in customer success.
Cathy Gao
Aug 10, 2021
Flipping & Financings: What European Founders Need to Know about Flipping to a U.S.
Flipping & Financings: What European Founders Need to Know about Flipping to a U.S.
GmbH. SAS. Ltd. For many of us this can be alphabet soup and at the mere mention of legal structuring we yawn. The reality is that compared…
Annalise Dragic
May 20, 2021
What is the Open Data Ecosystem and Why it’s Here To Stay
What is the Open Data Ecosystem and Why it’s Here To Stay
How today’s open data ecosystem companies are bringing the Big Data promise to life
Casber Wang
Apr 22, 2021
A SPACtacular Future: The Rapid Rise of SPACs & What Comes Next | Sapphire Ventures
A SPACtacular Future: The Rapid Rise of SPACs & What Comes Next | Sapphire Ventures
SPACs. You can’t read the news these days without hearing about them. This time last year, SPACs were mostly a curiosity, but today, with…
Steve Abbott
Feb 24, 2021
How Automation & Low Code/No Code Platforms Help Power our Lives: 4 Trends Driving Adoption |…
How Automation & Low Code/No Code Platforms Help Power our Lives: 4 Trends Driving Adoption |…
It’s time to retire the phrase “The robots are coming” — the robots are already here. Almost three centuries after the first Industrial…
Philipp Seifert
Jan 29, 2021
7 Tips for European Female Founders Fundraising Right Now
7 Tips for European Female Founders Fundraising Right Now
The events of 2020 have compounded the issues female founders face all over the world. In the U.S., despite overall VC funding remaining…
Annalise Dragic
Jan 14, 2021
5 Insights Startup CMOs Should Know About Analyst Relations | Sapphire Ventures
5 Insights Startup CMOs Should Know About Analyst Relations | Sapphire Ventures
In this year’s iteration of Sapphire’s annual CIO Innovation Index survey , enterprise leaders again reported that industry analysts were…
Scott Brown
Dec 16, 2020
Diversity in VC: Learnings from an LP Audit and how we can make this better together | Sapphire…
Diversity in VC: Learnings from an LP Audit and how we can make this better together | Sapphire…
This winter, , the world’s largest community of female venture investors, released a report on “The Untapped Potential of Women-led…
Elizabeth“Beezer”Clarkson
Dec 14, 2020
The (Tele)doctor Will See You Now: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated HealthTech Adoption | Sapphire…
The (Tele)doctor Will See You Now: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated HealthTech Adoption | Sapphire…
“ It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change .” — Charles Darwin
Cathy Gao
Dec 2, 2020
The Ultimate Stress Test: How COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Evolution of Customer Support |…
The Ultimate Stress Test: How COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Evolution of Customer Support |…
“Only a crisis — actual or perceived — produces real change.” — Milton Friedman
Cathy Gao
Dec 1, 2020
Building the Next Normal: 5 Key Insights for CMOs Delivering Virtual Events from Someone Who Knows…
Building the Next Normal: 5 Key Insights for CMOs Delivering Virtual Events from Someone Who Knows…
Like most companies, Sapphire Ventures converted all of our marketing events to virtual experiences at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Scott Brown
Oct 30, 2020
Baby, You Can Drive My Car ♫: Our Investment in Cazoo’s £240M Series D | Sapphire Ventures
Baby, You Can Drive My Car ♫: Our Investment in Cazoo’s £240M Series D | Sapphire Ventures
Cars have been symbols of personal freedom since long before the seminal Beatles song. But while owning a car is associated with choice…
Andreas Weiskam
Oct 5, 2020
#OpenLP: Virtual Annual Meetings are Here to Stay: Best Practices for Re-Imagining the AGM for our…
#OpenLP: Virtual Annual Meetings are Here to Stay: Best Practices for Re-Imagining the AGM for our…
by Laura Thompson, Sapphire Partners
Sapphire Ventures
Sep 8, 2020
3 Strategies Software Companies Can Borrow from the Open Source Cloud Playbook
3 Strategies Software Companies Can Borrow from the Open Source Cloud Playbook
Open source software has taken over the world. From contactless mobile payments to online grocery shopping , open source plays an…
Casber Wang
Aug 18, 2020
#OpenLP: The 4 P’s of Fundraising for Emerging Managers
#OpenLP: The 4 P’s of Fundraising for Emerging Managers
Raising capital as a first-time venture capital manager (or “VC”) is always challenging — primarily due to a lack of track record and…
Hillary Cook
Aug 7, 2020
Open Banking & Beyond: What’s Next for European FinTech Infrastructure?
Open Banking & Beyond: What’s Next for European FinTech Infrastructure?
Sapphire Ventures has had a long history of investing in fintech companies around the world, having backed Square (NYSE: SQ), IEX and…
Annalise Dragic
Jul 28, 2020
What you need to know about fundraising this year
What you need to know about fundraising this year
By Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director, Sapphire Partners
Elizabeth“Beezer”Clarkson
Jul 20, 2020
How to Build a Prospect Risk Assessment Model for Q2 and Beyond | Sapphire Ventures
In our recent post on ways B2B companies can build revenue resiliency, we wrote about the importance of rigorously assessing the risk of…
Rico Mallozzi
May 8, 2020
Modernizing the Way Business Happens Locally: Why We’re Excited About Podium | Sapphire Ventures
Modernizing the Way Business Happens Locally: Why We’re Excited About Podium | Sapphire Ventures
Earlier this month, it closed a $125 million Series C funding round, and Sapphire Ventures is excited to have participated. The way we see…
Rajeev Dham
Apr 28, 2020
The VC Fundraising Environment and COVID-19
It’s only Tuesday morning and already it’s been a tough week and while it’s too early to know exactly how #COVID19 will impact the #VC…
Elizabeth“Beezer”Clarkson
Mar 17, 2020
Sapphire Ventures Raises More than $1.4B
Sapphire Ventures Raises More than $1.4B
I’m proud to announce that Sapphire Ventures has raised more than $1.4 billion in new capital commitments, bringing our total assets under…
Nino Marakovic
Dec 18, 2019
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