Sapphire

Sapphire Sport is a pioneering investment platform focused on early-stage ventures at the intersection of sports, media, and entertainment technology. As part of Sapphire Ventures, which manages $4 billion in assets, Sapphire Sport operates with a dedicated fund of $115 million aimed at addressing opportunities within the broader sports technology market. Established in 2019 and based in Austin, Texas, this fund primarily invests in early-stage companies in the information technology sector, allocating between $3 million to $7 million across five to six startups. Sapphire Ventures, founded in 1996 and independent since 2011, has a track record of investing in innovative technology companies globally, supporting their growth into significant market players. The firm has completed over 55 exits from its portfolio and continues to partner with visionary teams to foster the development of impactful businesses.

Steven D. Abbott

Partner

Rami Branitzky

Managing Director

Eugene Chou

Associate

Elizabeth Clarkson

Managing Director

Beezer Clarkson

Partner

Hillary Cook

Senior Associate

Jai Das

President and Partner

Georgie Davies

Growth Investor and Associate

Kevin Diestel

Partner

Annalise Dragic

Principal

Cathy Gao

Partner

Doug Higgins

Co-Founder & Partner

Abigail Johnson

Partner

Naayl Kazmi

Associate

Jane Lee

Vice President

Alex Lehman

Investor

Nate Leung

Partner

Paul Levine

Partner

Adam Liu

Associate

Rico Mallozzi

vice_president

Nino Marakovic

CEO and Partner

Anthony Matusich

Chief Financial Officer

Thomas Moon

vice_president

Imogen Mulliner

Associate

Sam Procter

Associate

Anders Ranum

Partner

Aditya Reddy

Associate

Iladro Sauls

Associate

Andrew Slade

Associate

Michael Spirito

Managing Director

Chloe Steinberg

Partner

Laura Thompson

Partner

Andrew Vogeley

Associate

Casber Wang

Partner

Andreas Weiskam

Partner

Past deals in Seattle, WA

JupiterOne

Series C in 2022
JupiterOne, Inc. develops cloud-based cybersecurity asset management and automation software aimed at enhancing the security and compliance of organizations' cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with additional offices in Charlotte, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, the company provides tools for chief information security officers and security operations teams to automate asset discovery, visibility, and compliance. Its primary offering, the JupiterOne software, facilitates risk analysis, vulnerability management, threat hunting, and incident response through continuous data aggregation and relationship modeling of cyber assets. Additionally, the JupiterOne Insights application allows users to create customized reporting dashboards and visualizations for monitoring code commits and repository activities. JupiterOne operates as a subsidiary of LifeOmic Security, LLC.

Highspot

Series F in 2022
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance how businesses interact with their customers. Founded in 2012, the platform provides intelligent content management, training, and contextual guidance, along with actionable analytics to optimize sales pitches and content delivery. Highspot's features include scoring and recommending content, offering real-time alerts on customer engagement, and facilitating the creation of sales playbooks tailored to specific roles and industries. The company also integrates with customer relationship management systems, enabling businesses to improve customer engagement and drive revenue growth. In addition to its headquarters in Seattle, Highspot has an office in London, United Kingdom.

Matillion

Series E in 2021
Matillion is a data transformation solution provider or cloud data warehouses. The company is fundamentally changing data integration enabling customers to innovate at the speed of business, with cloud-native data integration technology that solves individuals’ and enterprises’ top business challenges. Its software is used by more than 550 customers in over 40 countries. Its customers include GE, Accenture, Siemens, Bose, Zapier, Splunk, and Vistaprint among others. Founded 2011, Matillion is headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado. It has also offices in New York City and Seattle.

JupiterOne

Series B in 2021
JupiterOne, Inc. develops cloud-based cybersecurity asset management and automation software aimed at enhancing the security and compliance of organizations' cloud infrastructures. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Morrisville, North Carolina, with additional offices in Charlotte, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, the company provides tools for chief information security officers and security operations teams to automate asset discovery, visibility, and compliance. Its primary offering, the JupiterOne software, facilitates risk analysis, vulnerability management, threat hunting, and incident response through continuous data aggregation and relationship modeling of cyber assets. Additionally, the JupiterOne Insights application allows users to create customized reporting dashboards and visualizations for monitoring code commits and repository activities. JupiterOne operates as a subsidiary of LifeOmic Security, LLC.

Highspot

Series E in 2021
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance how businesses interact with their customers. Founded in 2012, the platform provides intelligent content management, training, and contextual guidance, along with actionable analytics to optimize sales pitches and content delivery. Highspot's features include scoring and recommending content, offering real-time alerts on customer engagement, and facilitating the creation of sales playbooks tailored to specific roles and industries. The company also integrates with customer relationship management systems, enabling businesses to improve customer engagement and drive revenue growth. In addition to its headquarters in Seattle, Highspot has an office in London, United Kingdom.

Matillion

Series D in 2021
Matillion is a data transformation solution provider or cloud data warehouses. The company is fundamentally changing data integration enabling customers to innovate at the speed of business, with cloud-native data integration technology that solves individuals’ and enterprises’ top business challenges. Its software is used by more than 550 customers in over 40 countries. Its customers include GE, Accenture, Siemens, Bose, Zapier, Splunk, and Vistaprint among others. Founded 2011, Matillion is headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado. It has also offices in New York City and Seattle.

Outreach

Series F in 2020
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Outreach

Series F in 2020
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Highspot

Series D in 2019
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance how businesses interact with their customers. Founded in 2012, the platform provides intelligent content management, training, and contextual guidance, along with actionable analytics to optimize sales pitches and content delivery. Highspot's features include scoring and recommending content, offering real-time alerts on customer engagement, and facilitating the creation of sales playbooks tailored to specific roles and industries. The company also integrates with customer relationship management systems, enabling businesses to improve customer engagement and drive revenue growth. In addition to its headquarters in Seattle, Highspot has an office in London, United Kingdom.

Matillion

Series C in 2019
Matillion is a data transformation solution provider or cloud data warehouses. The company is fundamentally changing data integration enabling customers to innovate at the speed of business, with cloud-native data integration technology that solves individuals’ and enterprises’ top business challenges. Its software is used by more than 550 customers in over 40 countries. Its customers include GE, Accenture, Siemens, Bose, Zapier, Splunk, and Vistaprint among others. Founded 2011, Matillion is headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado. It has also offices in New York City and Seattle.

Highspot

Series D in 2019
Highspot, Inc. is a Seattle-based company that offers a cloud-based sales engagement platform designed to enhance how businesses interact with their customers. Founded in 2012, the platform provides intelligent content management, training, and contextual guidance, along with actionable analytics to optimize sales pitches and content delivery. Highspot's features include scoring and recommending content, offering real-time alerts on customer engagement, and facilitating the creation of sales playbooks tailored to specific roles and industries. The company also integrates with customer relationship management systems, enabling businesses to improve customer engagement and drive revenue growth. In addition to its headquarters in Seattle, Highspot has an office in London, United Kingdom.

Outreach

Series E in 2019
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Outreach

Series D in 2018
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Outreach

Series D in 2018
Outreach Inc. is a sales engagement platform designed to enhance revenue growth by optimizing customer interactions across various channels, including email, voice, and social media. The platform employs machine learning to assist sales representatives in making informed decisions, thereby improving efficiency and effectiveness in customer-facing roles. Outreach provides a range of solutions that encompass account-based, outbound, and inbound sales, as well as customer retention, expansion, task management, and activity tracking. Its features include Outreach Insights, which utilizes buyer sentiment analysis to enable sales teams to adjust their strategies based on real-time emotive signals from potential clients. Established in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, with an additional office in London, Outreach serves a diverse clientele, including notable companies such as Zoom, Okta, Cloudera, and Microsoft, helping them achieve predictable and measurable growth.

Matillion

Series B in 2018
Matillion is a data transformation solution provider or cloud data warehouses. The company is fundamentally changing data integration enabling customers to innovate at the speed of business, with cloud-native data integration technology that solves individuals’ and enterprises’ top business challenges. Its software is used by more than 550 customers in over 40 countries. Its customers include GE, Accenture, Siemens, Bose, Zapier, Splunk, and Vistaprint among others. Founded 2011, Matillion is headquartered in Manchester, UK and Denver, Colorado. It has also offices in New York City and Seattle.

Advanced Voice Research Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Advanced Voice Research Labs brings efficiency to the world of enterprise applications with AI-powered voice systems. Advanced Voice Research Labs is a platform that transforms complex decision paths into fully traceable, 100% accurate, high-speed decisions. They use AI to enables data from the front-lines to reach line managers in real-time, helping companies make better decisions dynamically, as market changes. Their AI allows machines to understand what people are saying to them, without needing keywords or rigid sentence structures. They have spent the past three years building the world’s most advanced voice interface.

Socrata

Series C in 2014
Socrata is the market leader in making existing government data discoverable, usable, and actionable for government workers and the people they serve. Socrata provides a data-as-a-service data platform and cloud applications exclusively for city, county, state, and federal government organizations. Socrata delivers unprecedented, data-driven innovation and cost-savings by bringing together disparate systems and leveraging the cloud to dramatically enhance the effectiveness of government programs, to improve quality of life for residents, positively impact local economies, and achieve excellence in government operations. Socrata solutions are designed and developed to meet strict government standards. The technology is optimized on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector cloud and delivered using the exclusive Socrata Blueprint Methodology. Socrata has earned Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authority to Operate (ATO).