InKoaLabsbyKoa Labs·Jan 14, 2023Recycling ReturnsGreat post by Laura Thompson @ Sapphire Ventures here. This is pretty much the philosophy I’ve been using for the past 15+ years at Koa. I…
Maddyness UK·Oct 28, 2021Building “companies of consequence”, a profile of Sapphire VenturesIn the ever-growing investment landscape, funds are multiplying and diversifying, and for startups there is more to raising investment than…
Annalise Dragic·May 20, 2021Flipping & Financings: What European Founders Need to Know about Flipping to a U.S.GmbH. SAS. Ltd. For many of us this can be alphabet soup and at the mere mention of legal structuring we yawn. The reality is that compared…
Scott Brown·Jan 14, 2021Category Creation: A Marketing Strategy for Long-Term Differentiation | Sapphire VenturesIn the early 2000s, Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah created a suite of software tools for marketing and sales. By 2012, their team had…A response icon1A response icon1
Scott Brown·Dec 16, 20205 Insights Startup CMOs Should Know About Analyst Relations | Sapphire VenturesIn this year’s iteration of Sapphire’s annual CIO Innovation Index survey , enterprise leaders again reported that industry analysts were…
Scott Brown·Oct 30, 2020Building the Next Normal: 5 Key Insights for CMOs Delivering Virtual Events from Someone Who Knows…Like most companies, Sapphire Ventures converted all of our marketing events to virtual experiences at the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Hillary Cook·Aug 7, 2020#OpenLP: The 4 P’s of Fundraising for Emerging ManagersRaising capital as a first-time venture capital manager (or “VC”) is always challenging — primarily due to a lack of track record and…
Rico Mallozzi·May 8, 2020How to Build a Prospect Risk Assessment Model for Q2 and Beyond | Sapphire VenturesIn our recent post on ways B2B companies can build revenue resiliency, we wrote about the importance of rigorously assessing the risk of…
Elizabeth“Beezer”Clarkson·Mar 17, 2020The VC Fundraising Environment and COVID-19It’s only Tuesday morning and already it’s been a tough week and while it’s too early to know exactly how #COVID19 will impact the #VC…
