# Sapphire Ventures

> Sapphire Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 310 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 310
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 35%
- Fund size: $181M
- Last fund: Jan 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2223266
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sapphirevc
- Website: https://www.sapphireventures.com

Sapphire Ventures is a VC fund in Palo Alto focused on Software and Information Technology. Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm with more than $11 billion in AUM and team members across Austin, London, Menlo Park and San Francisco. For over a decade, Sapphire has partnered with visionary management teams and venture funds to back companies of consequence. Since its founding, Sapphire has invested in more than 170 companiesglobally resulting in more than 30 Public Listings and 45 acquisitions. The firm’s investment strategies — Sapphire Ventures, Sapphire Partners and Sapphire Sport — are focused on scaling companies and venture funds, elevating them to become category leaders. Sapphire’s Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators delivers a strategic blend of value-add services, tools and resources designed to support portfolio company leaders as they scale.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series B | $10M–$120M |
| Series C | $13M–$200M |
| Series D | $13M–$201M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 79 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 42 | 14% |
| Enterprise Software | 40 | 13% |
| Analytics | 35 | 11% |
| SaaS | 34 | 11% |

202 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series D | 60 | 19% |
| Series C | 50 | 16% |
| Series B | 38 | 12% |
| Series E | 38 | 12% |
| Series A | 19 | 6% |

13 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 132 | 43% |
| Germany | 6 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | 2% |
| Canada | 5 | 2% |
| India | 2 | 1% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cathy Gao | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cathy-l-gao |
| Chloe Steinberg | Partner | 13 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chloe-steinberg |
| Demilade Obayomi | Vice President | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/demilade-obayomi |
| Mahau Ma | Operating Partner | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mahau-ma |
| Adam Liu | Associate | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adam-liu-bed3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Horizon3.ai | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |  |
| Mercury | Mercury Technologies is a technology-enabled company that provides banking services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company services provide bank accounts designed specifically for startups, combining FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts with tech tools. Immad Akhund, Max Tagher, and Jason Zhang founded the company. | $200M | Series D | May 20, 2026 |  |
| Hightouch | Hightouch provides a platform that enables organizations to use their existing data infrastructure to activate and manage customer data for marketing and operational use cases. Its technology connects directly to cloud data warehouses and synchronizes data to various business tools, allowing teams to build audiences, personalize campaigns, andanalyze performance without duplicating data. The platform includes components such as a composable customer data platform, reverse ETL capabilities, and AI-driven decisioning tools that help automate campaign planning, content generation, and customer engagement workflows. Hightouch’s system is designed to operate on top of existing data environments, enabling users to access and utilize all available data while maintaining governance and control within their data warehouse. The company’s tools are used by marketing, data, and operations teams to create targeted customer experiences, manage campaigns across channels, and derive insights from customer behavior and interactions. | $150M | Series D | Apr 29, 2026 |  |
| Upvest | Upvest is a financial technology company that provides an investment infrastructure platform enabling other businesses to offer investment products through a single API. The firm’s core product is a modular investment API that handles complex backend functions such as brokerage, settlement, custody, and compliance, allowing fintech platforms,banks, and wealth managers to embed investing features into their apps and services. This infrastructure supports a range of asset classes, including stocks, exchange‑traded funds, mutual funds, and digital assets, and can be configured to enable fractional investing, savings plans, and automated investment experiences. Upvest’s platform manages the technical and regulatory aspects of investment operations, so its clients can focus on user experience and product innovation without building extensive financial infrastructure themselves. Its solutions encompass account management, real‑time transaction processing, and portfolio services that integrate with existing digital offerings. | $90M | Series D | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| WorkOS | WorkOS provides APIs to make applications enterprise-ready, with pre-built features and integrations required by IT admins. With WorkOS, users can start selling to enterprise customers with just a few lines of code. WorkOS was founded in 2019 by Michael Grinich and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. | $100M | Series C | Mar 02, 2026 |  |
| Temporal Technologies | 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. | $300M | Series D | Feb 17, 2026 |  |

10 of 310 investments shown.

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- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 23 deals together
- [Tiger Global Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiger-global) — VC Fund, 22 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sapphire Ventures invest in?

Sapphire Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series D and Series C stage. Most of the 310 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sapphire Ventures's check size?

Sapphire Ventures typically joins rounds of $10M–$120M at Series B, $13M–$200M at Series C and $13M–$201M at Series D. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sapphire Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Sapphire Ventures?

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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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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