Celebrating
a Year of Impact
2021
Year In Review
BY THE NUMBERS
86
OUR CEO NPS SCORE
450+
EXECUTIVE TALENT INTRODUCTIONS
500+
CUSTOMER INTRODUCTIONS
16
PUBLIC LISTINGS & M&A EVENTS
8B+
ASSETS UNDER MANAGEMENT
ACROSS ALL VEHICLES
ACROSS ALL VEHICLES
~2B
CAPITAL COMMITMENTS
Delivering Impact to Our Companies
OUR 2021 MILESTONES + INVESTMENTS
ACCESS THE POWER OF OUR SPECIALIZED NETWORKS
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6Centers of ExcellenceLaunched in 2021, our CoEs serve as a hub for critical practice areas, becoming the go-to-destination for useful content, playbooks, workshops and peer-to-peer connections, ultimately providing meaningful value to our portfolio.
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450+Executive Talent IntroductionsWinning the war for talent has never been more important for our portfolio companies. Sapphire's Talent Network is dedicated to helping CEOs find and hire the right executive talent to build their businesses at every stage of growth.
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500+Customer and Partner IntroductionsAs companies move up-market, customer and partner introductions play a crucial role in helping land deals and driving revenue. We deliver what we believe is unparalleled access to Global 2000 customers. We also provide support in areas of channel and revenue strategy, peer intros and event exposure.
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600+ConnectionsOur annual Sapphire Vision Summit, Innovation Days, webinars & dinners have brought together an exclusive audience of startup CEOs, VC investors, and innovative Global 2000 CIOs and CxOs.View Video
NEWS + INITIATIVES
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Firm Doubles Down on Enterprise Focus with $2 Billion in New Capital CommitmentsAs an enterprise specialist firm, Sapphire has continued to successfully ramp and scale across the U.S., Europe and Israel.
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Sapphire Expands European ReachThe expansion follows the opening of our first European office last year with seven team members.
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New Centers of Excellence Provide Needed Expertise to Portfolio CompaniesOur portfolio companies leverage the collective intelligence of our networks via our 6 new Centers of Excellence. This includes a powerful network of CEOs, CIOs, CXOs, corporate buyers and executive talent.
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Sapphire Partners’ #OpenLP Initiative Continues to Scale#OpenLP is a crowd-sourced initiative that helps to demystify the LP perspective in venture. The community grew substantially this year, benefitting from a new content repository website and Twitter account.
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All Raise Founding Partner + Board Xcelerate ProgramWe are proud to have partnered with All Raise to launch Board Xcelerate to diversify boards of private, venture-backed companies. Board diversity is an issue, and we can help solve it for the benefit of our portfolio companies, the technology ecosystem, and society at large.
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3rd Annual CIO Innovation Index UnveiledEach year, in addition to our research on tech spend across categories, share of budget going to startups and the POC process, we dig into the major themes affecting our network. This year, we found that the main concern of our network relates to corporate purpose.
2021 PARTNER PROMOTIONS + HIRES
ALL PROMOTIONS + HIRES
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Wilson AlbrightASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSELNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Sarah AlfaddaCORPORATE COUNSELNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Lacy BalsamaHR GENERALISTNEW ROLE
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Jenny BavingerSR. DIRECTOR, MARKETINGPROMOTION
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Ciara Campbell BowenSF OFFICE MANAGERNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Kevin BurkeVP, STRATEGYNEW SAPP-HIRE
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David CarterSENIOR DIRECTOR DEVOPS & INFRASTRUCTURE COENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Monica EscobedoDIGITAL MARKETING MANAGERNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Madeline GasiorSENIOR ASSOCIATENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Alyce GoudeauEXECUTIVE ASSISTANTNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Cristina HolhmanCFONEW SAPP-HIRE
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Ellie JavadiCMONEW SAPP-HIRE
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Naayl KazmiASSOCIATENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Abhishek LahotiVP, BD - EUROPENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Jane LeeVICE PRESIDENTPROMOTION
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Adam LiuASSOCIATENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Eric LoanATX OFFICE MANAGER & EANEW SAPP-HIRE
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Amanda LornsonEXECUTIVE ASSISTANTNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Rico MallozziVICE PRESIDENTPROMOTION
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Jenny MazerASSOCIATE CONTROLLERNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Jason MorrisDIR. ANALYTICS & INVESTOR RELATIONSNEW ROLE
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Margaret PhommachanhEXECUTIVE ASSISTANTNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Aditya ReddyASSOCIATENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Charlie RexfordCHIEF OF STAFFNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Jill RichardsonSR. MARKETING MANAGERNEW SAPP-HIRE
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IIadro SaulsASSOCIATENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Robert SeveroVP, RISK & ANALYTICS, CCOPROMOTION
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Nicole TorresEVENT MANAGERNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Krupa VankayalaVP, PEOPLE + HRNEW SAPP-HIRE
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Andrew VogeleyASSOCIATENEW SAPP-HIRE
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Annie WarnerDIRECTOR, BDPROMOTION
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Shinta YuliaSR. CONTROLLERPROMOTION
AWARDS + RECOGNITIONS
AWARDS + RECOGNITIONS
–Inc. Founder Friendly VC
–Top 5 Cloud 100 VC
–VCJ Top 50 VC Fundraiser
–Tech Trailblazer Investor
–WSJ Women of Influence: Beezer Clarkson
–Insider Partner Spotlight: Annalise Dragic
–VCJ Rising Stars: Cathy Gao, Nate Leung, Annalise Dragic, Laura Thompson
–Growth Cap Award: Rajeev Dham, Kevin Diestel
WE THANK OUR AMAZING COMMUNITY OF FOUNDERS, CEOS, INVESTORS & COMPANIES OF CONSEQUENCE
... for another incredible year of growth and innovation.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
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INTEGRITY
Startup executives choose us as an investor because of our integrity in how we work and interact with you. We pride ourselves on transparent communications and living by a strong set of core values. -
AUTHENTIC RELATIONSHIPS
Relationships are the key to driving our collective success. We give our utmost attention to building trust, and nurturing authentic and congenial long-term relationships. -
AGILE & SUPPORTIVE
We move quickly in making decisions and getting you the resources you need to expand your business. When you need our help we’re there, but we’ll step back when you want space to do things your way. -
DEDICATION TO WINNING
Our sole focus is on making your start-up a company of consequence. We will use all of our resources and global network to make it happen. -
EXCELLENCE
Our team strives to be excellent in everything we do, from our roles as investors to our communications with our LPs, teammates and colleagues.
2021 Thought Leadership
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Rajeev Dham, Cathy Gao, Jane Lee
Ecommerce is Having a Moment: Why We’re Excited & What’s Next
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Steve Abbott
Long Live the Tech IPO
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Casber Wang
What is the Open Data Ecosystem and Why it’s Here To Stay
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Andreas Weiskam, Kevin Diestel, Annalise Dragic, Imogen Mulliner
The Power of Payments: Why the European Payments Market is Hotter than Ever
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Chloe Steinberg
All Hail Happiness: The Gen Z Buying Habit Coming to a Wellness Investment Near You
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Laura Thompson, Hillary Cook
Fund Recycling Moves the Needle for Both LPs and GPs. Here’s How.
Where To Find Us
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