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    Sapphire Ventures

    Menlo Park, California, United StatesFounded 1996

    Sapphire Ventures is a venture capital firm originally founded in 1996 as SAP Ventures, the corporate venture arm of SAP SE. It spun out as an independent firm in 2011 and was rebranded as Sapphire Ventures in 2014, investing in expansion-stage enterprise technology and Enterprise AI companies with over $10B in AUM.

    Deal activity increased 64% year-over-year (18 deals in the last 12 months). Average disclosed round size is $93.2M (across 254 rounds with reported amounts).

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    Portfolio

    154

    Fund Size

    —

    Top Stage

    Series C

    Last 12 Mo

    18

    Team

    AJ

    Abigail Johnson

    Partner, Chief Operating Officer

    AR

    Anders Ranum

    Partner

    AW

    Andreas Weiskam

    Partner

    AC

    Ashley Caldwell

    Partner, General Counsel

    CW

    Casber Wang

    Operating Partner

    CG

    Cathy Gao

    Partner

    DH

    David Hartwig

    Operating Partner

    EP

    Elizabeth Patterson

    Operating Partner

    JD

    Jai Das

    Partner, President

    KB

    Kevin Burke

    Partner, Strategy

    KV

    Krupa Vankayala

    Partner, People & HR

    NM

    Nino Marakovic

    Partner, CEO

    Portfolio Breakdown

    Stage Distribution

    Sector Distribution

    Investment Activity

    DealsAvg Round Size

    Portfolio

    289 investments
    CompanyRoundAmountDate
    UJET logoUJETSeries D$76MSep 2026
    Mercury logoMercurySeries B$120MMay 2026
    Upvest GmbH logoUpvest GmbHSeries D—Mar 2026
    Hightouch logoHightouchSeries D$150MMar 2026
    Temporal logoTemporalSeries D—Feb 2026
    GitGuardian logoGitGuardianSeries C$50MFeb 2026
    Bretton AI logoBretton AISeries B$75MFeb 2026
    Defense Unicorns logoDefense UnicornsSeries B$136MJan 2026
    Rain logoRainSeries C$250MJan 2026
    Rain logoRainSeries C$250MJan 2026
    Rain Financial logoRain FinancialSeries C$250MJan 2026
    Rain logoRainSeries C$250MJan 2026
    Rain logoRainSeries C$250MJan 2026
    Cyera logoCyeraSeries F—Jan 2026
    LangChain logoLangChainSeries C—Oct 2025
    Anrok logoAnrokSeries C—Oct 2025
    Feedzai logoFeedzaiSeries C$75MOct 2025
    WeTravel logoWeTravelSeries C—Sep 2025
    Rain logoRainSeries B—Sep 2025
    Rain logoRainSeries B$58MAug 2025
    Rain logoRainSeries B—Aug 2025
    Clay logoClaySeries C$100MAug 2025
    Blue J logoBlue JSeries D—Aug 2025
    Unmind logoUnmindSeries C$30.6MJul 2025
    Cyera logoCyeraSeries E—Jun 2025
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    Last updated: 7 October 2026