Laura Thompson

The firm

Sapphire VenturesVC firm · US27cheques in 12 months292all time17leddeploying

Companies they are listed as backing

Portfolio

• 6sense
• ActivTrak
• Advanced Voice Research Labs
• Adverity
• Alation
• AllyO
• Attentive
• Auth0
• BetterUp
• Brightfield
• Cazoo
• CircleCI
• Clari
• CloudHealth Technologies
• Contentful
• Convercent
• Culture Amp
• Currencycloud
• Current
• Cypress.io
• DataRobot
• Dremio
• Exabeam
• Feedzai
• FollowAnalytics
• Gorgias
• Highspot
• InfluxData
• JFrog
• LeanData
• Matillion
• Medable
• Mixhalo
• Moveworks
• Netskope
• OpsRamp

36 of 72 companies.

Also at Sapphire Ventures

• Paul LevineOperating Partner2 rounds
• Jai DasPresident, Partner & Co-Founder1 round
• Abigail JohnsonPartner, Chief Operating Officer0 rounds
• Alex LehmanVice President0 rounds
• Anders RanumPartner0 rounds
• Andreas WeiskamPartner0 rounds
• Anna OglodzinskaExecutive Assistant to Chief Executive Officer0 rounds
• Annalise DragicCo-Founder & Co-CEO0 rounds

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Mentioned in

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  Origins: Inside Venture Capital · 25 Mar 2025 · 12 min

  Minisode: Franchise Funds: Is Venture Broken?

  MentionsLGT Capital PartnersLaura Thompson

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  Origins host Beezer Clarkson sits down with her colleague Laura Thompson, fellow LP and Partner at Sapphire Partners, to riff on her recent conversation with Thomas Kristensen, Partner at LGT Capital Partners. Together they discuss 2025’s sluggish exit market, and whether or not that’s a sign that… More on the show's page

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  Origins: Inside Venture Capital · 22 Jan 2025 · 23 min

  Minisode: Franchise Funds: Grading Performance

  MentionsTop TierTop Tier Capital PartnersJessica ArchibaldLaura Thompson

  About this episode

  Origins host Beezer Clarkson sits down with her colleague Laura Thompson, fellow LP and Partner at Sapphire Partners, to unpack her recent conversation with Jessica Archibald, a GP at Top Tier Capital. They discuss Jessica’s engineering-based analytical approach to answering the question “what… More on the show's page

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  Origins: Inside Venture Capital · 17 Dec 2024 · 17 min

  Minisode: Franchise Funds: Why do LPs & Founders Care?

  MentionsAdams Street PartnersLaura Thompson

  About this episode

  Origins host Beezer Clarkson sits down with her colleague Laura Thompson, fellow LP and Partner at Sapphire Partners, to discuss her recent conversation with Stephen Bluestein, Partner of Primary Investments at Adams Street and formerly Packard Foundation, about what it takes to make (and… More on the show's page

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  Origins: Inside Venture Capital · 26 Nov 2024 · 16 min

  Minisode: Building Google & Betting Big: Lessons from Wesley Chan

  MentionsGoogleWesley ChanFPV VenturesSergey BrinJai DasLaura Thompson

  About this episode

  Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures,  and Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners go deep into their recent conversation with Wesley Chan, the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of FPV Ventures. They unpack Wesley’s direct learnings from Sergey Brin coming up at Google, how it is the job of the… More on the show's page

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