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Sapphire Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2006 · Active in 2026

Sapphire Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2006. The page below shows 99 Power Law outcomes from Sapphire Ventures's portfolio — 89 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Cybersecurity · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · India. Sapphire ranks #102 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

99 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #102 · Global · 99 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 22% 5y
89
Decacorns ↑ 20% 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 77% 5y
75
01 · Exits

Sapphire’s biggest exits.

Sapphire portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $26.2B
$15.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $10.0B
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $14.0B
$2.2B IPO · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $12.4B
$4.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
$3.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $8.2B
$7.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$4.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $7.4B
$6.8B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $4.3B
$1.5B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $6.5B
$6.5B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$5.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $2.4B
$4.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.7B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $4.1B
$3.5B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Now $150M
$840M IPO · 2017
Entered Series ANow $3.5B
$3.2B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$2.8B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $2.6B
$2.6B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series B+
$600M acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $2.6B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $2.5B

+12 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 99 Sapphire Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA85
  2. UK4
  3. India3
  4. Israel2
  5. France1
  6. Canada1
  7. Australia1
  8. Portugal1
  9. Germany1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software24
  2. Cybersecurity17
  3. Marketing16
  4. Fintech16
  5. AI12
  6. Health Tech & Medtech4
  7. Edtech4
  8. Other2
  9. Transportation2
  10. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
  11. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+88
  2. Series A7
Estimated holdings

Sapphire’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Sapphire’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 31 companies where Sapphire is a named shareholder, worth about $6.9B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 DataRobotEnterprise Software · Unicorn 10.5% $6.3B $662M
  2. 2 FeedzaiSecurity · Unicorn 19.5% $2.0B $390M
  3. 3 CyeraSecurity · Unicorn 4% $9.0B $360M
  4. 4 MedableHealth · Unicorn 17% $2.1B $357M
  5. 5 BlockdaemonEnterprise Software · Unicorn 10.5% $3.3B $341M
  6. 6 Sword HealthHealth · Unicorn 8.5% $4.0B $340M
  7. 7 7.5% $4.2B $315M
  8. 8 14.2% $2.2B $312M
  9. 9 20.04% $1.5B $301M
  10. 10 14.5% $2.0B $290M
  11. 11 6.5% $4.4B $286M
  12. 12 10% $2.5B $250M

Showing the 12 largest of 31 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Sapphire’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Sapphire also appears inside investor groups in Clay, Glean, Grafana Labs, Kong, LangChain, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Sapphire's 99 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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99 of 99 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Sapphire stack up?

Sapphire in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sapphire's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

264 founders across the 99 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States102
India53
Portugal24
Israel16
Taiwan7
Argentina5
United Kingdom5
Canada5
Russia4
France4
+10 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology13
Carnegie Mellon University7
NYU Stern School of Business6
University of Aveiro5
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi5
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras5
Berkeley5
Harvard Business School5
University of Wisconsin-Madison5
+104 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft27
Alphabet | Google18
Meta7
Yahoo!5
VeriSign3
Zoho3
Juniper Networks3
Salesforce3
Hulu3
Uber3
+67 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Sapphire Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Sapphire on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Sapphire Ventures

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