Sapphire Ventures

Activity from announced rounds

Activity in this selectionSeries B

Sapphire Ventures invests in enterprise software and AI companies after product-market fit, focusing on expansion-stage businesses building toward category leadership.

The firm concentrates on a selected group of companies and works on scaling go-to-market, operations and leadership. Its platform includes executive talent introductions and connections to prospective customers and partners.

This model addresses the transition from a working product to an organisation capable of sustained enterprise growth: recruiting leadership, expanding distribution and building the operating capability around a larger customer base.

Sources
Rounds participated in
4
Confirmed lead rounds
0
3 roles undisclosed
New companies
4
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$572M
4 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series B4

By primary sector

Defense tech2
AI1
Fintech1

By country

United States4

Rounds

4 in this selection
Gimlet Labs

Provides a cloud inference platform and compiler that distribute AI workloads across different processor types.

$300MSeries B
Participant
Smack Technologies

Frontier AI lab building domain-specific decision-making models for the military

$61MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Bretton AI

Provides AI agents for financial crime operations in regulated financial institutions

$75MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Defense Unicorns

Develops secure software delivery for national security mission systems

$136MSeries B
Role not disclosed