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Sierra Ventures

Corporate · Founded 1982 · San Mateo, United States

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Since 1982, Sierra Ventures, a privately held venture capital firm, has helped entrepreneurs around the world start and grow over 200

201 portfolio companies Corporate · $4.9B invested · 390 investments · Last investment 4/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 20% 5y
201
Decacorns
3
Thoroughbreds
8
Exits

Sierra Ventures’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Sierra Ventures’s transaction record.

Intuitive Surgical
$46M IPO · 2000
Entered SeedNow $114BHealth
Intuit
IPO · 1993
Entered Series ANow $78BFintech
VeriSilicon Holdings
$10B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $17BSemiconductors
MakeMyTrip
$850M IPO · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $5.8BTravel
Sourcefire
$87M IPO · 2007
Entered Series ANow $2.7BSecurity
Ximalaya
$1.3B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series AMusic
Shape Security
$1.0B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series B+Security
Portfolio analysis

Where Sierra Ventures's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 201 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA175
  2. India5
  3. Mexico5
  4. Canada4
  5. China4
  6. Israel3
  7. Cuba2
  8. Armenia1
  9. Australia1
  10. Netherlands1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software76
  2. Marketing29
  3. Fintech20
  4. Media19
  5. Security15
  6. Health14
  7. Semiconductors14
  8. Telecom13
  9. Energy8
  10. Education7
  11. Gaming5
  12. Legal4
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A85
  2. Seed61
  3. Series B+54
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage107
  2. Early Growth63
  3. Late Growth29
  4. Mature2
Portfolio market map

Inside Sierra Ventures's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 201 tracked.

Clip
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.5B
Ximalaya
Music · Unicorn
$1.3B
Reify Health
Health · Unicorn
$4.8B
Astronomer
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
Fabric
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.5B
Treasure Data
Enterprise Software
$600M
Enable
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
Spectro Cloud
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Endor Labs
Enterprise Software
$372M
Shape Security
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Meru Networks
Security
$44M
Phenom People
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$1.3B
Yalo
Marketing
$250M
Nexenta Systems
Enterprise Software
$80M
Hired
Jobs Recruitment
$160M
CNEX LABS
Semiconductors
$134M
Q-CTRL
Enterprise Software
$236M
Ooyala
Media
$172M
Joy
Event Tech
$240M
Eudia
Legal
$420M
Theta Labs
Gaming
$400M
Movandi
Telecom
$160M
Meriton Networks
Semiconductors
$216M
Greenplum Software
Enterprise Software
$128M
ZoomSystems
Fintech
$27M
VeriSilicon Holdings
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$17B
ArmorCode
Security
$200M
Kanisa
Fintech
$52M
Accruent
Real Estate · Unicorn
$2.0B
Drop
Fintech
$176M
Zimperium
Security
$525M
Appcelerator
Telecom
$110M
WebCollage
Media
$4.2M
Paro
Fintech
$100M
Modulate
Gaming
$120M
AuthenTec
Security
$60M
Stratus Technologies
Security
$225M
KnowledgeNet
Education
$70M
Wizeline
Mexico
$172M
SupportLogic
Enterprise Software
$200M
SeeCommerce
Media
Social Touch
Telecom
$235M
Revionics
Enterprise Software
$120M
Approva
Legal
$56M
Lemonaid
Health
$400M
Ignite Technologies
Marketing
$60M
Balto
Legal
$148M
K4Connect
Wellness Beauty
$36M
Zeni
Fintech
$136M
Thismoment
Marketing
$70M
NP Photonics
Health
$20M
Pantomath
Security
$120M
CSS Corp
USA
$270M
Appcues
Enterprise Software
$128M
Corrigo
Enterprise Software
$40M
MIOX
Energy
$12M
Outcomes4Me
Health
$84M
Interactive Fitness
Health
$24M
Applitools
Enterprise Software
$250M
Red 5 Studios
Gaming
$92M
Portfolio founders

Where Sierra Ventures's portfolio founders come from.

119 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States89
  2. Mexico7
  3. United Kingdom5
  4. India4
  5. Israel3
  6. Australia1
  7. British Indian Ocean Territory1
  8. Canada1
  9. China1
  10. Germany1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University7
  2. University of California, Berkeley7
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
  4. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign4
  5. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
  6. Harvard Business School3
  7. Harvard University3
  8. Technological Institute of Monterrey3
  9. University of California, Los Angeles3
  10. University of Madras3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google8
  2. IBM6
  3. Microsoft6
  4. Yahoo!5
  5. Amazon3
  6. ARM3
  7. Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity3
  8. Deloitte3
  9. LockSchuppen - FutureLab20563
  10. Nokia Corporation3
How Sierra Ventures stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,155 companies $3.1T portfolio
NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,184 companies $2.5T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,919 companies $23T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#54 rank 847 companies $1.9T portfolio
Insight Partners
Venture Capital · New York City
#20 rank 809 companies $2.1T portfolio
General Catalyst
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#16 rank 921 companies $2.1T portfolio
Intel Capital
Corporate Venture Fund · Santa Clara
#76 rank 983 companies $1.1T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,065 companies $1.9T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Sierra Ventures.

Ben Yu
Ben Yu
Managing Partner
 Vispi Daver
Vispi Daver
Partner
 Vignesh Ravikumar
Vignesh Ravikumar
Associate
 Anne Gherini
Anne Gherini
CMO
 Yasmin Zarabi
Yasmin Zarabi
COO
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.