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Sapphire Ventures
Sapphire Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital company that primarily invests in growth-stage enterprise technology companies globally.〔(Sapphire Ventures website - http://sapphireventures.com/ )〕 Originally started in 1996 as the venture capital arm of SAP SE, it was known as SAP Ventures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SAP Ventures raises $650M in new global VC fund - VCCircle )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VC Funding Drops in Q3 - Orange County Business Journal )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mobile-commerce comes of age in India )〕 It split from its parent in 2011 and was rebranded to Sapphire Ventures in 2014.〔Gage, Deborah. ("SAP Ventures Changes Name to Sapphire Ventures, Expands Focus" ), "The Wall Street Journal", 16 October 2014. Retrieved on 7th April 2015〕 SAP SE is now a limited partner in the company, and their ties are used in investing in companies working in the Enterprise Software ecosystem.〔(Sapphire Ventures article in CrunchBase ), "CrunchBase". Retrieved on 7 April 2015.〕 As of April 2015, the company manages more than US$1.4B in investments, and are active in the United States, Europe, Israel and India.〔
On March 24, 2015, the company, along with industry giants Cisco Systems, Inc. and Siemens, co-hosted the first industry summit on the Internet of Things, named ''"IoT: Empowering The Enterprise"'' in San Jose, California.〔(@SapphireVC on Twitter ), "Twitter", 24 March 2015. Retrieved on 13th April 2015.〕〔Escott, Blake. (Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) Planning Bigger With SAP Today, Finisar Corp. (NASDAQ:FNSR), Juniper Networks, Inc. (NYSE:JNPR) ), "StreetWise Report", 24 March 2015. Retrieved on 13 April 2015〕 The video of the event is (available online ). The event was advertised as "connecting investors, startups, technologists and Fortune 1000 executives to explore IoT in the enterprise."
In an independent study released on July 29, 2015, CB Insights, recognized Sapphire Ventures as Top 5 VC based on participation in major tech exits. Specifically, the CB Insights Report compiled a list of VCs with at least five of the top 100 exits in the period beginning Q1 2013 and ending Q2 2015, and ranked each VC according to how many of these exits they were involved in. Sapphire Ventures made the list at #4, with 10 such exits to its credit, behind Accel Partners, New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia Capital.
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