Sapphire Ventures
VC Fund
Palo Alto, United States
Sapphire Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Sapphire Ventures partners with Enterprise AI founders and the early-stage funds investing in them to build Companies of Consequence. With 15+ years of experience and $10B+ in AUM across its direct and fund investing strategies, the firm invests with high conviction in a select number of post–product-market fit companies and early stage venture funds. Sapphire helps founders scale go-to-market, operations, and leadership—contributing to 30+ public listings and 50+ acquisitions. Investments include Glean, Cyera, Temporal, LangChain, Clay, Huntress, EliseAI, Grafana, WorkOS, and OneBrief. To learn more about Sapphire, visit: https://sapphireventures.com.
- Total investments:
- 426
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 37%
- Fund size:
- $1.5B
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sapphire Ventures invests in
Stages Sapphire Ventures invests in
Countries Sapphire Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 13 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Series B
- $10M–$120M
- Series C
- $15M–$125M
- Series D
- $13M–$200M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 91 (21%)
- Enterprise Software 51 (12%)
- SaaS 46 (11%)
- Information Technology 46 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 46 (11%)
Stage
- Series D 78 (18%)
- Series C 71 (17%)
- Series B 52 (12%)
- Series E 51 (12%)
- Series A 23 (5%)
Country
- United States 169 (40%)
- United Kingdom 8 (2%)
- Germany 6 (1%)
- Canada 5 (1%)
- Israel 3 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cathy Gao
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Chloe Steinberg
Partner
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Partner | Total investments: 13 | Find email | |
Demilade Obayomi
Vice President
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Vice President | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Mahau Ma
Operating Partner
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Operating Partner | Total investments: 1 | Find email | |
Adam Liu
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 13 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice. | $300M / Secondary Market / Sep 30, 2026 | ||
| EliseAI provides artificial intelligence–powered automation and conversational services designed for housing and healthcare organizations. It offers a unified platform that manages communications across text, email, chat, and voice, handling tasks such as leasing inquiries, tenant maintenance requests, scheduling, renewals, and patientappointments. The system centralizes operations into modules like CRM, leasing, maintenance, delinquency handling, and healthcare-specific workflows, adapting to specialties such as women’s health, dermatology, ophthalmology, and orthopedics. It automates routine interactions, status updates, and follow-ups in multiple languages, aiming to reduce manual burden and streamline operational workflows. | $350M / Series F / Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Temporal Technologies is a computer software company that enables its users to build and operate resilient applications using developer-friendly primitives. It specializes in the fields of information technology, software development, and computer software. It was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. | $550M / Series E / Sep 14, 2026 | ||
| Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $550M / Series H / Sep 09, 2026 | ||
| Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on developing next-generation AI infrastructure. | $300M / Series B / Sep 04, 2026 | ||
| Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix your attack vectors before criminals exploit them. NodeZero, our automated penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise, including external, identity, on-prem, IoT, and cloud attack surfaces. Like APTs, ransomware, andother threat actors, our algorithms discover and fingerprint your attack surface, identifying the ways exploitable vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, harvested credentials, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together to facilitate a compromise. NodeZero is a true self-service SaaS offering that is safe to run in production and requires no persistent or credentialed agents. You will see your enterprise through the eyes of the attacker, identify your ineffective security controls, and ensure your limited resources are spent fixing problems that can actually be exploited. Founded in 2019 by industry, US Special Operations, and US National Security veterans, Horizon3.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, and made in the USA. | $250M / Series E / Aug 03, 2026 | ||
| Chai Discovery creates Chai-1, a multi-modal foundation model designed for predicting molecular structures relevant to drug discovery. The model facilitates the unified prediction of proteins, small molecules, and nucleic acids, and is available for free for commercial applications. By enabling accurate predictions without the need for multiplesequence alignments, Chai-1 advances the capabilities of molecular modeling in the life sciences. | $400M / Series C / Jul 14, 2026 | ||
| Warp is a payroll and compliance tool that makes it easy for founders to hire, onboard, and pay their employees. | $60M / Series B / Jun 25, 2026 | ||
| Current is a leading consumer fintech banking platform transforming financial access for everyday Americans. We're focused on building integrated solutions to solve needs that stand between Americans and their financial goals, making it easier for everyone to build the future they deserve. To learn more about us, visithttp://www.current.com or download our app on the App Store or Google Play.Current is backed by investments from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global Management, Avenir, Wellington Management, General Catalyst, Cross River, Foundation Capital and QED Investors. | $80M / Series E / Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Cyera provides a data security platform that helps organizations discover, classify, monitor, and protect sensitive data across cloud, SaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. The platform combines data security posture management, data loss prevention, access governance, and AI security capabilities to help organizations understand wherecritical data resides, who can access it, and how it is being used. Cyera uses automated data discovery and classification to identify sensitive information and assess potential security risks across enterprise systems. Its platform also supports monitoring of human and AI interactions with data, enabling organizations to investigate access activity, manage permissions, and address security issues. Through integrations with existing technology environments, Cyera helps security teams maintain visibility into data assets and implement controls to reduce data-related risk. | $600M / Series G / Jun 02, 2026 | ||
| See all 426 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Sapphire Ventures invest in?
Sapphire Ventures invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SaaS startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 426 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Sapphire Ventures invest in?
Sapphire Ventures typically joins rounds of $10M–$120M at Series B, $15M–$125M at Series C and $13M–$200M at Series D. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Sapphire Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Sapphire Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Sapphire Ventures?
The team at Sapphire Ventures includes Cathy Gao (Partner), Chloe Steinberg (Partner) and Demilade Obayomi (Vice President), among 13 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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