Sapphire Ventures

Sapphire Ventures is a global software venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with innovative management teams and venture funds to develop significant companies. Founded in 1996 and becoming an independent entity in 2011, Sapphire has invested in over 170 companies worldwide, resulting in more than 30 public listings and 45 acquisitions. With over $11 billion in assets under management and a presence in Austin, London, Menlo Park, and San Francisco, Sapphire Ventures focuses on scaling companies and enhancing their potential to become category leaders. The firm employs a Portfolio Growth team of experienced operators who provide strategic support, resources, and tools to help portfolio companies thrive in competitive markets. Additionally, Sapphire Sport, a specialized investment platform within the firm, targets early-stage investments at the intersection of sports, media, and entertainment technology, addressing emerging opportunities in the sports technology sector.

Steve Abbott

Partner

Hillary Cook

Senior Associate

Rajeev Dham

Partner

Kevin Diestel

Partner

Cathy Gao

Partner

David Hartwig

Co-Founder and Partner

Alex Lehman

Investor

Nino Marakovic

CEO and Partner

Imogen Mulliner

Associate

Michael Spirito

Partner

Chloe Steinberg

Partner

Casber Wang

Partner

Andreas Weiskam

Co-Founder and Partner

Sarah Wu

Associate

Doug Higgins

Co-Founder and Partner

Past deals in Sales Automation

Creatio

Venture Round in 2024
Creatio is a global vendor specializing in a no-code platform that automates workflows and customer relationship management (CRM) processes. The company's platform empowers businesses to create applications and automate various processes without requiring programming skills. It provides comprehensive CRM solutions that enhance marketing, sales, and service automation, enabling organizations to manage customer relationships effectively and improve overall customer experience. Additionally, Creatio offers robust business process management tools that allow users to design, execute, monitor, and optimize their workflows. By combining CRM and business process management capabilities with a user-friendly no-code approach, Creatio aims to accelerate organizational efficiency and innovation.

Qualified

Series C in 2022
Qualified is the pipeline generation platform for revenue teams that utilize Salesforce to expand their pipeline. They do this by using their most valuable sales and marketing resource, the corporate website, to find the most valuable buyers, find buyer intent signals, and initiate sales talk right away. In order to detect account-based buyer intent and enable real-time sales discussions, Qualified, which is based on Salesforce, links the website with Salesforce data.

CaptivateIQ

Series C in 2022
CaptivateIQ, Inc. is a software company that specializes in managing and optimizing financial incentives, particularly through its sales commission platform. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, CaptivateIQ's software automates commission tracking by collecting and organizing data from various sources. It facilitates the creation of incentive plans, calculates payouts, and generates insightful reports to enhance sales performance, payroll, and accounting processes. The platform aims to reduce manual work, eliminate errors associated with traditional spreadsheets and legacy tools, and ultimately improve team morale and company performance by ensuring accurate and timely processing of commissions.

6Sense

Series E in 2022
6Sense is a company that transforms how organizations manage and convert sales pipelines into revenue. It offers a predictive intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to capture anonymous buying signals and provide insights into customer behavior. By identifying the right accounts and suggesting optimal communication channels and messages, 6Sense helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams enhance pipeline quality and accelerate sales processes. This technology not only reduces guesswork and friction in the sales journey but also aims to increase conversion rates and facilitate predictable revenue growth. Through its omnichannel connectivity and visibility, 6Sense enables revenue teams to make informed decisions based on buyer intent data and other predictive analytics.

Clari

Series F in 2022
Clari Inc. operates a revenue operations platform that enhances efficiency and predictability in the sales process through automation and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2012 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the platform integrates data from various business systems, such as CRM, email, and marketing automation, to provide sales professionals with real-time insights into deal progress and activity. By organizing critical information around accounts and opportunities, Clari enables sales teams to make informed decisions, optimize their strategies, and effectively manage pipelines. The platform also includes predictive analytics capabilities that allow organizations to forecast revenue and reduce churn. Clari's services are utilized by numerous B2B companies, including notable firms like Qualtrics and Adobe, to streamline their revenue operations and improve overall business outcomes.

Highspot

Series F in 2022
Highspot, Inc. is a cloud-based sales engagement platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. The platform enhances how companies engage with their customers by providing intelligent content management, contextual guidance, and actionable analytics. Highspot enables businesses to optimize their content through features like semantic search and intelligent recommendations, while also delivering real-time alerts on customer interactions. Additionally, it offers marketing and sales portals, as well as customizable sales playbooks tailored to various roles, profiles, and industries. By integrating training, coaching, and engagement intelligence, Highspot aims to improve sales team performance and drive repeatable revenue for companies worldwide.

6Sense

Series D in 2021
6Sense is a company that transforms how organizations manage and convert sales pipelines into revenue. It offers a predictive intelligence platform that leverages artificial intelligence, big data, and machine learning to capture anonymous buying signals and provide insights into customer behavior. By identifying the right accounts and suggesting optimal communication channels and messages, 6Sense helps sales, marketing, and customer success teams enhance pipeline quality and accelerate sales processes. This technology not only reduces guesswork and friction in the sales journey but also aims to increase conversion rates and facilitate predictable revenue growth. Through its omnichannel connectivity and visibility, 6Sense enables revenue teams to make informed decisions based on buyer intent data and other predictive analytics.

Clari

Series E in 2021
Clari Inc. operates a revenue operations platform that enhances efficiency and predictability in the sales process through automation and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2012 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the platform integrates data from various business systems, such as CRM, email, and marketing automation, to provide sales professionals with real-time insights into deal progress and activity. By organizing critical information around accounts and opportunities, Clari enables sales teams to make informed decisions, optimize their strategies, and effectively manage pipelines. The platform also includes predictive analytics capabilities that allow organizations to forecast revenue and reduce churn. Clari's services are utilized by numerous B2B companies, including notable firms like Qualtrics and Adobe, to streamline their revenue operations and improve overall business outcomes.

Highspot

Series E in 2021
Highspot, Inc. is a cloud-based sales engagement platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. The platform enhances how companies engage with their customers by providing intelligent content management, contextual guidance, and actionable analytics. Highspot enables businesses to optimize their content through features like semantic search and intelligent recommendations, while also delivering real-time alerts on customer interactions. Additionally, it offers marketing and sales portals, as well as customizable sales playbooks tailored to various roles, profiles, and industries. By integrating training, coaching, and engagement intelligence, Highspot aims to improve sales team performance and drive repeatable revenue for companies worldwide.

Outreach

Series F in 2020
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform that enhances revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, with an office in London, the company offers solutions for account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention and expansion. Its platform employs machine learning to automate repetitive tasks, track sales statistics, and provide insights into buyer sentiment, allowing sales teams to tailor their approaches based on real-time emotive signals. Outreach's client base includes prominent companies such as Zoom, Adobe, and Microsoft, who utilize the platform to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their sales processes, ultimately driving predictable and measurable growth.

Highspot

Series D in 2019
Highspot, Inc. is a cloud-based sales engagement platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. The platform enhances how companies engage with their customers by providing intelligent content management, contextual guidance, and actionable analytics. Highspot enables businesses to optimize their content through features like semantic search and intelligent recommendations, while also delivering real-time alerts on customer interactions. Additionally, it offers marketing and sales portals, as well as customizable sales playbooks tailored to various roles, profiles, and industries. By integrating training, coaching, and engagement intelligence, Highspot aims to improve sales team performance and drive repeatable revenue for companies worldwide.

Clari

Series D in 2019
Clari Inc. operates a revenue operations platform that enhances efficiency and predictability in the sales process through automation and artificial intelligence. Founded in 2012 and based in Sunnyvale, California, the platform integrates data from various business systems, such as CRM, email, and marketing automation, to provide sales professionals with real-time insights into deal progress and activity. By organizing critical information around accounts and opportunities, Clari enables sales teams to make informed decisions, optimize their strategies, and effectively manage pipelines. The platform also includes predictive analytics capabilities that allow organizations to forecast revenue and reduce churn. Clari's services are utilized by numerous B2B companies, including notable firms like Qualtrics and Adobe, to streamline their revenue operations and improve overall business outcomes.

Highspot

Series D in 2019
Highspot, Inc. is a cloud-based sales engagement platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, United Kingdom. The platform enhances how companies engage with their customers by providing intelligent content management, contextual guidance, and actionable analytics. Highspot enables businesses to optimize their content through features like semantic search and intelligent recommendations, while also delivering real-time alerts on customer interactions. Additionally, it offers marketing and sales portals, as well as customizable sales playbooks tailored to various roles, profiles, and industries. By integrating training, coaching, and engagement intelligence, Highspot aims to improve sales team performance and drive repeatable revenue for companies worldwide.

Outreach

Series E in 2019
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform that enhances revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, with an office in London, the company offers solutions for account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention and expansion. Its platform employs machine learning to automate repetitive tasks, track sales statistics, and provide insights into buyer sentiment, allowing sales teams to tailor their approaches based on real-time emotive signals. Outreach's client base includes prominent companies such as Zoom, Adobe, and Microsoft, who utilize the platform to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their sales processes, ultimately driving predictable and measurable growth.

LeanData

Series C in 2019
LeanData, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Jose, California, specializes in SaaS-based data management solutions tailored for business-to-business enterprises. The company is recognized for its leadership in Revenue Operations, providing essential tools for Lead-to-Account Matching, Routing, and Marketing Attribution. LeanData's platform enhances the integration of sales and marketing efforts by ensuring a consistent data flow throughout the revenue process. This approach enables businesses to streamline their go-to-market strategies, facilitating faster revenue generation and improving the overall buyer experience. By offering a comprehensive suite of applications, LeanData allows revenue teams to efficiently plan, execute, and analyze their operations from a centralized platform that is adaptable and transparent.

Outreach

Series D in 2018
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform that enhances revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, with an office in London, the company offers solutions for account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention and expansion. Its platform employs machine learning to automate repetitive tasks, track sales statistics, and provide insights into buyer sentiment, allowing sales teams to tailor their approaches based on real-time emotive signals. Outreach's client base includes prominent companies such as Zoom, Adobe, and Microsoft, who utilize the platform to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their sales processes, ultimately driving predictable and measurable growth.

LeanData

Series B in 2016
LeanData, Inc., founded in 2012 and based in San Jose, California, specializes in SaaS-based data management solutions tailored for business-to-business enterprises. The company is recognized for its leadership in Revenue Operations, providing essential tools for Lead-to-Account Matching, Routing, and Marketing Attribution. LeanData's platform enhances the integration of sales and marketing efforts by ensuring a consistent data flow throughout the revenue process. This approach enables businesses to streamline their go-to-market strategies, facilitating faster revenue generation and improving the overall buyer experience. By offering a comprehensive suite of applications, LeanData allows revenue teams to efficiently plan, execute, and analyze their operations from a centralized platform that is adaptable and transparent.

SAVO Group

Venture Round in 2014
Founded in 1999, SAVO is a provider of on-demand, collaborative Sales Enablement solutions. Whether you have 10 sales reps or 10,000, SAVO plugs your sales reps into the collective genius of your entire organization by connecting them to the best resources, insights and expertise so that they never sell alone. By leveraging key Web 2.0 concepts, SAVO: - Pushes the best content, resources, and information at the right time; - Empowers anyone across the organization to contribute content, insights, and feedback, regardless of role; - Allows reps to rate the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of content through star ratings, comments, and usage statistics; - Makes it easy to customize content to maximize the impact, without compromising your brand. SAVO has been developed and refined through long-standing relationships with companies such as Morgan Stanley, CareerBuilder.com, Acxiom, AutoTrader.com, AmerisourceBergen, Citigroup, ADP, SPSS, and FedEx Kinkos. The combination of real-world client experience, an innovative consulting approach and award-winning technology uniquely positions SAVO to deliver practical solutions to enable the entire sales organization.

Five9

Series D in 2013
Five9, Inc. is a provider of cloud software specifically designed for contact centers, operating in both the United States and internationally. The company offers a virtual contact center platform that integrates various applications to facilitate customer service, sales, and marketing functions. This platform allows businesses to manage customer interactions across multiple channels, including voice, chat, email, social media, and mobile, all within a unified architecture. Five9's solutions enhance customer experiences and increase agent productivity through features such as digital self-service, agent assist technology, and workforce optimization tools. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including banking, healthcare, and technology, and is headquartered in San Ramon, California. Five9 has also established partnerships, including an alliance with Deloitte Digital, to advance its cloud contact center offerings.

SAVO Group

Venture Round in 2011
Founded in 1999, SAVO is a provider of on-demand, collaborative Sales Enablement solutions. Whether you have 10 sales reps or 10,000, SAVO plugs your sales reps into the collective genius of your entire organization by connecting them to the best resources, insights and expertise so that they never sell alone. By leveraging key Web 2.0 concepts, SAVO: - Pushes the best content, resources, and information at the right time; - Empowers anyone across the organization to contribute content, insights, and feedback, regardless of role; - Allows reps to rate the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of content through star ratings, comments, and usage statistics; - Makes it easy to customize content to maximize the impact, without compromising your brand. SAVO has been developed and refined through long-standing relationships with companies such as Morgan Stanley, CareerBuilder.com, Acxiom, AutoTrader.com, AmerisourceBergen, Citigroup, ADP, SPSS, and FedEx Kinkos. The combination of real-world client experience, an innovative consulting approach and award-winning technology uniquely positions SAVO to deliver practical solutions to enable the entire sales organization.

Spring Global

Series D in 2010
Spring’s Command Center helps you sell more and outperform your competitors by leveraging Big Data analytics and artificial intelligence for better informed decision making and more effective planning, all in one dashboard. Don’t sell blind, tap Spring’s powerful analytics tools and actionable insights to make the most of your field sales efforts.

SAVO Group

Series A in 2005
Founded in 1999, SAVO is a provider of on-demand, collaborative Sales Enablement solutions. Whether you have 10 sales reps or 10,000, SAVO plugs your sales reps into the collective genius of your entire organization by connecting them to the best resources, insights and expertise so that they never sell alone. By leveraging key Web 2.0 concepts, SAVO: - Pushes the best content, resources, and information at the right time; - Empowers anyone across the organization to contribute content, insights, and feedback, regardless of role; - Allows reps to rate the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of content through star ratings, comments, and usage statistics; - Makes it easy to customize content to maximize the impact, without compromising your brand. SAVO has been developed and refined through long-standing relationships with companies such as Morgan Stanley, CareerBuilder.com, Acxiom, AutoTrader.com, AmerisourceBergen, Citigroup, ADP, SPSS, and FedEx Kinkos. The combination of real-world client experience, an innovative consulting approach and award-winning technology uniquely positions SAVO to deliver practical solutions to enable the entire sales organization.

CoVia Technologies

Venture Round in 2000
CoVia Technologies specializes in providing business-to-business Internet workplace solutions. The company offers software and consulting services aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of sales and marketing teams by delivering real-time competitive and account information. Its suite of tools includes the Communications Integrator, a middleware solution that supports business-critical distributed applications. This software enables organizations to communicate and share information efficiently, facilitating interactions and negotiations with prospects and partners through a browser-based platform. CoVia Technologies focuses on helping organizations improve their operational capabilities and streamline their communication processes.
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