The Portfolio Growth Team is Here to Help You Scale

How Do We Measure Our Success?

For us, it’s more than the volume of activities. It’s about delivering business outcomes and bottom-line impact.
Here’s what our CEOs are saying:

We help Global 2000 executives connect with emerging startups that can help them solve business challenges. We organize more than 50 innovation sessions and executive briefings annually, carefully matching conversations with portfolio companies.

Understanding what is top of mind for the CIO is key to helping us provide value to our portfolio companies and executive network. Our exclusive CIO network and invite-only CIO Summit conference arm our portfolio with sophisticated product and strategy feedback from potential customers and partners in the Global 2000 ranks.

Deciding what your next key executive hire will be or filling an open position are strategic and critical decisions for your business. Our experienced operators and talent professionals are here to provide insight, advice and mentorship as you build out your executive team.

We participate in the Venture Capital Executive Compensation Survey, which helps our CEOs understand industry pay practices. With inputs from 1,300+ startups, the VCECS  report provides robust insight into salary and equity compensation.

We believe that brilliant and tested leaders are key to helping companies scale quickly. The Sapphire Fellows Program matches experts across a variety of functional areas with our portfolio to help them as they rapidly grow and scale.

Are you a candidate looking for your next role with a market-leading start-up?  Open portfolio company positions are aggregated on our  Careers page.  

Generating revenue momentum is critical for a growth-stage startup. Sapphire’s Sales and GTM CoE helps portfolio leaders in areas such as leveraging new sales channels to drive revenue, product-led growth, and revenue forecasting solutions. The Sales CoE hosts workshops and webinars with industry experts on different sales topics, produces helpful best practices playbooks such as The Startup’s Guide to Cloud Marketplaces eBook: How to Get Started and Drive Revenue with this Growing Sales Channel, and builds ecosystem connections between portfolio companies and alliance executives at enterprise companies.

Expanding into international markets such as Europe and Asia is often a marker of a rapidly scaling and maturing business. Sapphire’s International Expansion CoE provides portfolio companies with a series of playbooks, webinars with experienced leaders, and expert advice on the strategic, as well as operational aspects of landing and expanding into major international markets. As part of the CoE, we recently published A Startup’s Guide for Opening European Operations playbook.

Moving upmarket requires a keen understanding of how large enterprise buyers and C-level executives evaluate and adopt startup technologies. The CIO & Corporate Buyers CoE provides our startups with data, research, and advisory insights into CIO and CXO decision makers at Global 2000 enterprises, as well as details into how corporate buyers are evaluating startup technology, ranging from how enterprises run startup POCs to how different technology areas rank on their budgetary priorities. To benchmark these findings, Sapphire produces an annual CIO Innovation Index report, providing playbooks and best practices to help startups position themselves to global corporate buyers.

Moving upmarket requires a keen understanding of how large enterprise buyers and C-level executives evaluate and adopt startup technologies. The CXO & Corporate Buyers CoE provides our startups with data, research, and advisory insights into CIO and CXO decision makers at Global 2000 enterprises, as well as details into how corporate buyers are evaluating startup technology, ranging from how enterprises run startup POCs to how different technology areas rank on their budgetary priorities. To benchmark these findings, Sapphire produces an annual CIO Innovation Index report, providing playbooks and best practices to help startups position themselves to global corporate buyers.

As hypergrowth startups mature to serve an expanding set of customers and markets, upleveling engineering and infrastructure processes and disciplines is critical to maintaining momentum–all the while preserving the agility, innovation, and throughput that cemented the early days of company success. Our DevOps and Infrastructure CoE provides portfolio CTOs, CISOs, and Engineering leaders with forums, peer networks, and resources to help them stay ahead of top practitioner trends as they scale their engineering and infrastructure organizations.

For venture investors, launching or scaling a fund can be both exciting and daunting. There is a lot to learn and get smart on quickly–fundraising, fund structure and governance, portfolio construction, LP communications, as well as ESG and diversity considerations. The Emerging Manager Investors CoE provides insights and best practices from the collective experience of the #OpenLP network and the Sapphire Partners team (the LP arm of Sapphire).

Successfully building your brand takes time, effort and planning. Our team is here to help entrepreneurs strategize and build the best plan to get your message out in the most impactful way.

Mastering the media landscape is daunting, but critical to building your brand. Our team will help connect you to the right PR and media resources, letting you focus on sharing your brand and message.

We love to share, promote and amplify our portfolio’s news and thought leadership across our social channels. Let us know when you have something to share so we can help you spread the word.

Each year, the Sapphire’s CIO Summit convenes hundreds of enterprise IT leaders, startup executives and investors to explore today’s most compelling and cutting-edge innovations in enterprise IT.

Sapphire hosts deep dive events focused on specific sectors, technologies or trends to build the conversation between start-ups, their customers and other investors.  Sign up for the Sapphire email list to learn about upcoming events.

Startup executives, across functions  benefit from meeting and learning from their peers and industry leaders. Every month, we host intimate dinners and salons geared toward connecting our portfolio executives with each other, and with leaders in their respective field.

With topics on everything from design thinking to ASC 606 planning to building your skills as a CFO, our workshops are designed to help our companies navigate the tactical challenges all businesses face as they rapidly scale and expand globally.