Sapphire Ventures

3Exits tracked$1.5bnDisclosed value$1.5bnMedian price0Acquihires

Startups backed by Sapphire Ventures that were acquired: 3 exits so far, with the buyer, the price where disclosed and every source.

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Enterprise software · Berlin

Salesforce buys Berlin-founded content platform Contentful for about $1.5 billion in cash

Salesforce wants Contentful's content store as the layer its Agentforce AI agents draw on; the price disclosed in a later filing was about half the $3 billion valuation Contentful reached in 2021.

Price$1.5bnRaised$335mLast stageSeries D+Buyer typeBig Tech

Latest in Sapphire VenturesUnited States · Data & analyticsSAP agrees to buy lakehouse company Dremio to rebuild Business Data Cloud on Apache IcebergUndisclosedSeries D+4 May

Seattle · Enterprise softwareSeismic to merge with sales enablement rival Highspot under Permira controlUndisclosedSeries D+12 Feb

All Sapphire Ventures exitsOpen tracker →

1 JunSalesforce → ContentfulBerlin · Series D+ · raised $335m$1.5bn$1bn+4 MaySAP → DremioUnited States · Series D+ · raised n/aUndisclosedUndisclosed 12 FebSeismic → HighspotSeattle · Series D+ · raised $648mUndisclosedUndisclosed