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Alation: Finding Truth in Data
Talks about Venture Capital, Investment and Data
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Anders Ranum
Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures
San Carlos, California
Overview
Anders Ranum is the Managing Director at Sapphire Ventures in San Carlos, California, where he has successfully invested in and supported companies like InfluxData and Alation. With a strong background in venture capital and a focus on Series A and Series B investments in sectors like SaaS and cloud infrastructure, he has demonstrated expertise in product management, enterprise software, and business development.
Ranum's career highlights include his role as a Partner at Sapphire Ventures, where he has made impactful investments in companies like InfluxData and Alation, as well as serving as a Board Member for various tech companies including JupiterOne and Dremio. His strategic approach to venture capital and extensive experience in product strategy and market analysis have contributed to his success in the industry.
Work Experience
Partner
2012 - Current
Sapphire Ventures is focused on helping today’s most innovative expansion-stage technology companies become global category-defining leaders. We strive to partner with extraordinary entrepreneurs to help them build industry-leading businesses. Leveraging nearly two decades of experience and an extensive global enterprise network, Sapphire Ventures invests capital, resources and expertise to enable its portfolio companies to scale rapidly. Whether entrepreneurs sell to businesses, consumers or both, Sapphire Ventures offers a powerful platform for business development and operational excellence to help them accelerate growth. Our approach is collaborative, agile and efficient, providing support when you need it.
Sapphire is a global software venture capital firm backing companies of consequence.
Board Member
2024
Tractian is a machine intelligence company that provides condition monitoring and asset performance management for industrial operations.
Raised $183,700,000.00 from General Catalyst, Next47, NGP Capital and Sapphire Ventures.
Board Member
2018
Alation is a data intelligence platform for banks, retailers, and government agencies.
Raised $314,950,000.00 from NTT DOCOMO Ventures.
Board Member
2021
JupiterOne specializes in providing cybersecurity asset management solutions.
Raised $119,000,000.00 from Bain Capital Ventures, Cisco Investments, Tribe Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Splunk Ventures, Intel Capital and Alpha Square Group.
Board Member
2021
The Easy and Open Data Lakehouse: Self-service analytics with data warehouse functionality and data lake flexibility across all of your data
Raised $410,000,000.00 from Norwest Venture Partners, Adams Street Partners, Insight Partners, Cisco Investments, StepStone Group, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures and DTCP.
Investor
2019
Exabeam is a global cybersecurity leader that delivers AI-driven security operations. Learn more at www.exabeam.com.
Raised $391,000,000.00 from SharesPro.
Board Member
2017
InfluxDB is an open-source time series database developed by the company InfluxData.
Investor
2021
Yugabyte is an open-source distributed SQL database for customers in industries such as cybersecurity, financial markets, and IoT.
Raised $291,000,000.00 from Dell Technologies Capital, Alkeon Capital, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, 8VC, Sapphire Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Wipro Ventures.
Investor
2020
Kong is a cloud-native platform that powers API-led connectivity for developer productivity, automating security, and microservices.
Raised $344,101,000.00 from CRV, Tiger Global Management, Notable Capital, Balderton Capital, 137 Ventures, Teachers’ Venture Growth, Index Ventures, Sapphire Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
Investor
2020
StackHawk is a SaaS company focused on helping organizations find and fix exploitable API security issues as part of their CI/CD workflows.
Raised $35,325,000.00 from Alumni Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, Foundry Group, Costanoa Ventures and Ride Home Fund.