What a week at RSA Conference in SF! Check out the highlights below 💫

👉We hosted a VC Security Social alongside our friends at Forgepoint Capital, GulaTech, and Norwest, bringing together 100+ senior cybersecurity leaders to celebrate the people shaping the venture, corporate…

Get up to speed on Sapphire Ventures’s latest investments, resources, portfolio news, and more in our newsletter! Catch the highlights below ✨

🚀 We co-led the Series A for DefenseUnicorns, innovating in national security software, and celebrated the Series E funding of FloQast,…

✨Next week at NYSE 🏛's Tech Summit, don’t miss this roundtable discussion about where investors are deploying new capital and where they’re doubling down, featuring Sapphire Ventures's cathy gao 🙋🏻‍♀️ and fellow investors👇

🎤What: VC Roundtable: Weird Times
🗓 When: Thursday, May 16 at 2:45 PM…

“Aside from AI, there are a range of French tech sectors that European investors like me are paying close attention to. Here are four that I’m currently excited about…” 👀

— Sapphire Ventures’s Imogen Mulliner shares her perspective on France’s bustling ecosystem with Maddyness UK

The observability (o11y) market cap expanded from $61B in 2019 to $105B in 2023. 🤯

In our recent blog, we dive into the observability market opportunity and landscape, with a close look at the startups we see making strides. 👀

Read the blog here: sapphireventures.com/blog/silicon-v……

Less than 0.4% of SaaS startups ever reach $50M ARR.

If you’re a #SaaS founder navigating this growth hurdle, don’t miss this fireside chat at SaaStock USA next week with Kyle Hanslovan, Co-founder & CEO Huntress (a Sapphire Ventures portfolio company), moderated by Casber Wang,…

“Product-market fit is not a one-time thing. It evolves constantly.”

☝️One key takeaway from an all-star panel at Startup Grind Global, moderated by Sapphire Ventures’s Rajeev Dham, alongside Sangeeta Chakraborty, CRO at Miro and Michael McBride, GP at GV and former CRO at @Gitlab.…

Congrats to the BioCatch team on their transaction with Permira! 🚀

We’re proud to participate in the transaction and continue backing BioCatch on its mission to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease seamlessly co-exist.

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Overheard at our AI strategy session: Engineers are seeing about a 10% boost in productivity with AI—not the 50% that McKinsey and others had predicted. 💡

Last week, we partnered with HSBC to bring together 50+ product leaders, CIOs, and CTOs from companies like Cedar,…

A few snaps from last week’s Founders Village Sunset Cocktail Series in Palo Alto ✨

We are thrilled to have partnered with Team8, U.S. Venture Partners, Acrew Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Redpoint, Silicon Valley Bank, and SignalFire to bring together entrepreneurs, global investors, and Valley VCs…

We have some incredible VCs and international funds joining us next month in Austin. Between stage sessions from Christine Esserman, Brandon Gleklen, Mary D'Onofrio, and Casber Wang, and our investor-only networking day, investors will be taking #SaaStockUSA by storm at Palmer Events Center💥

At Sapphire Ventures, we have been keeping a close eye on companies building tools to enable disruptive Gen AI use cases.

With many teams still trying to understand best practices for working with Gen AI models (both above and below the API), we've distilled our learnings into a…

🚨Startups curious about transitioning to durable growth, enhancing customer experiences, or understanding today’s most valuable venture metrics... you don’t want to miss this panel next week at Startup Grind Global!

Sapphire Ventures’s Rajeev Dham will moderate a discussion on these…

Investing in a partner strategy can significantly influence your company's trajectory. 🤝

Last week marked the launch of our Partner Maestro Workshop Series to share best practices for building a successful partnership framework, including:

🔹 Define clear partner objectives
🔹…

The climate tech ecosystem is experiencing significant growth, driven by a rapid decrease in renewable energy costs, substantial green subsidies, and recent climate disclosure requirements.

In our latest blog, Sapphire Ventures’s Imogen Mulliner and Sam Procter explore market trends…