With ongoing market uncertainty and lessons learned from the past year, many founders are revisiting growth strategies and avenues to ensure business success.

On this episode of Traction, Rajeev Dham, Partner at Sapphire Ventures, will dive into actionable tips and current advice he's giving his portfolio founders in areas like GTM strategy, key performance metrics, fundraising, valuations, and more.

Rajeev has backed a number of hyper growth startups and unicorns, and has experienced a number of notable exits. Monday.com, Braze, Segment, Wise. He has been recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investor by GrowthCap and most recently, the Silicon Valley Business Journal honored him in their annual 40 Under 40 list.

Sapphire has backed 16 companies on the Forbes’ Cloud 100 list making Sapphire a top 10 investor in the B2B SaaS category.

Having closely worked with a range of fast growing software companies in up and down markets,
Rajeev’s here to break down their formula for us.

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