Venture firm in listed AI tools
Sapphire Ventures
Sapphire Ventures has backed 13 companies behind 19 listings on Anchor Terminal.
Companies on Anchor Terminal
Alation, Inc. Series E, November 2022
Source alation.com/news-and-press/…
ElevenLabs Employee tender offer, September 2026
Gem Software, Inc. Series C, September 2021
Source gem.com/blog/series-c
Glean Technologies, Inc. Series E, September 2024, Series F, June 2025
Source glean.com/press/…
Gorgias Series B, December 2020, led a round
Source gorgias.com/blog/…
Grafana Labs Secondary, September 2025
LangChain Series B, October 2025
- LangGraph BB · Agent frameworks & SDKs
- LangMem D · Agent memory
- LangSmith API + MCP BB · Agent observability & evals
Source langchain.com/blog/series-b
Mercury Technologies, Inc. Series D, May 2026
Source mercury.com/blog/…
Pendo.io, Inc. Series D, September 2018, Series E, October 2019, led a round
Source pendo.io/news/…
PubNub Inc. through Sapphire
Source pubnub.com/company
Temporal Technologies Series D, February 2026, Series E, September 2026
Source temporal.io/news/…
WorkOS Series C, March 2026, led a round, through Sapphire
Source workos.com/blog/series-c
Yapily Series B, July 2021, led a round
Source yapily.com/blog/…
Where they invest
Company knowledge & data catalogues 2 Conversational voice agents 1 Music generation 1 Speech-to-text 1 Text-to-speech 1 Voice cloning & custom voices 1 Recruiting & applicant tracking 1 Customer support & helpdesk 1 Observability & incidents 1 Agent frameworks & SDKs 1 Agent memory 1 Agent observability & evals 1 Spend management & procurement 1 Product analytics & experimentation 1 Event delivery & webhooks 1 Human approval & handoff 1 Agent auth & delegated access 1 Bank data & open banking 1
Founders they backed
- Mati Staniszewski ElevenLabs
- Piotr Dąbkowski ElevenLabs
- Arvind Jain Glean Technologies, Inc.
- T.R. Vishwanath Glean Technologies, Inc.
- Tony Gentilcore Glean Technologies, Inc.
- Romain Lapeyre Gorgias
- Alex Plugaru Gorgias
- Raj Dutt Grafana Labs
- Anthony Woods Grafana Labs
- Torkel Ödegaard Grafana Labs
- Harrison Chase LangChain
- Ankush Gola LangChain
- Todd Olson Pendo.io, Inc.
- Erik Troan Pendo.io, Inc.
- Rahul Jain Pendo.io, Inc.
- Eric Boduch Pendo.io, Inc.
- Todd Greene PubNub Inc.
- Stephen Blum PubNub Inc.
- Samar Abbas Temporal Technologies
- Maxim Fateev Temporal Technologies
- Michael Grinich WorkOS
Questions
Which AI tools has Sapphire Ventures invested in?
Anchor Terminal lists Alation, Inc., ElevenLabs, Gem Software, Inc., Glean Technologies, Inc., Gorgias, Grafana Labs, LangChain, Mercury Technologies, Inc., Pendo.io, Inc., PubNub Inc., Temporal Technologies, WorkOS and Yapily backed by Sapphire Ventures.
How are Sapphire Ventures's companies graded?
On Anchor Terminal's benchmark, Alation (C, 60.3), ElevenLabs Agents API + MCP (BB, 71.4), ElevenLabs Music API (B, 66.9), ElevenLabs Scribe Speech to Text API (B, 69), ElevenLabs Text to Speech API + MCP (BB, 75.3), ElevenLabs Voice Cloning and Voice Design API (BB, 74.8), Gem (D, 53.4), Glean (B, 69.9), Gorgias API + MCP (D, 51), Grafana MCP Server (BB, 73.9), LangGraph (BB, 70.8), LangMem (D, 48.3), LangSmith API + MCP (BB, 71.3), Mercury API (B, 63.8), Pendo (D, 48.3), PubNub (B, 68.3), Temporal (A, 78.3), WorkOS Pipes and Agents (C, 59.9) and Yapily (C, 57.7).
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