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Here are the Sapphire Ventures highlights of 2023.
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Sapphire Ventures:
2023 Year in Review
2023 Year in Review
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By the Numbers
New + Follow-on Investments
M&A Exits
In The News
Our Partners weigh in on this year’s biggest themes.
Beyond the Buzz: Navigating the AI Landscape
Since ChatGPT took the world by storm, GenAI has captured the attention of consumers, businesses and VCs alike. Over the past year, we’ve seen AI represent what we believe to be a profound technology shift. With this in mind, we announced a $1B+ commitment to invest in AI-powered enterprise tech startups. Based on over a decade of AI investing experience, our investors shared their perspectives on GenAI across key publications and top-tier conference stages. Here are a few highlights:
Press Release
With $2.4B+ deployed across 60 active AI-focused investments, Sapphire builds on over a decade of data, analytics and AI investing experience
Press Articles
2024 AI trends to watch, according to VCs
Featuring Jai Das
VC Spotlight: Sapphire Ventures on ‘Hard to Track’ AI Space
Featuring Casber Wang
Industry Conferences
An Award Winning Firm + Team
Featured Announcements
Events
We’re thrilled to have taken the stage at some of the world’s top industry conferences.
Startup Resources
Featured Resources
Sapphire RevX Hub: Accelerate your sustainable and durable growth priorities with research, tools and education to empower your GTM team
2023 KeyBanc Capital Markets & Sapphire Ventures SaaS Survey: A shift towards efficient execution and profitability
GTM Best Practices
Creating a Data-Driven Culture Playbook
Investment Areas of Interest
From Purchase Orders to Boardrooms: Procurement’s Tech Renaissance and Evolution
Vertical(ai) is the New Horizontal
Germany’s Booming Startup Scene, in Berlin and Beyond…
Streaming Wars: Video Security & Video Intelligence Edition
Saas Industry Trends
2023 SaaS Buyers Outlook Report
How Gross Margin and Gross Retention Drive Efficient ARR Growth
Sapphire Ventures 2023 Marquee Summits
Sapphire Hypergrowth Engineering Summit
Sapphire Ascend Summit
Navigating a New Normal: GTM Learnings From Our Inaugural Sapphire Ascend Summit
Sapphire Ventures Promotions
The work we do would not be possible without the valued contributions of our team. We’re pleased to share the following promotions.
We’re looking forward to a bright 2024 together!
-Nino Marakovic + Sapphire Ventures Team
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By the Numbers:
“Assets Under Management Across All Vehicles” represents Sapphire’s Regulatory Assets Under Management as of 12/31/2022 per ADV filed March 2023 as well as new commitments made to Sapphire Funds during calendar year 2023;
“New Investments” represents all Sapphire direct growth strategy investments made by Sapphire’s Growth Strategy during calendar 2023;
“Customer and Partner Introductions” refers to general relationship introductions made by Sapphire and third parties during calendar year 2023.
“Executive Talent Introductions” refers to relationship introductions made by Sapphire and third parties relating to business objectives during calendar year 2023;
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