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Sutter Hill Ventures
Venture capital firm · Founded 1962 · Active in 2026
Sutter Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1962. The page below shows 31 Power Law outcomes from Sutter Hill Ventures's portfolio — 28 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Other B2B Software · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · Ireland. Sutter Hill ranks #204 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Sutter Hill’s biggest exits.
Sutter Hill portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Sutter Hill’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Sutter Hill’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Sutter Hill is a named shareholder, worth about $817M in estimated equity value.
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SiFive
18%
$3.6B
$657M
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2
Sila Nanotechnologies
16%
$1.0B
$160M
Estimated value = Sutter Hill’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 31 Sutter Hill Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA29
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China1
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Ireland1
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AI9
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Other B2B Software5
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Biotech & Life Sciences5
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Marketing3
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Other3
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Cybersecurity2
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Fintech1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces1
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Transportation1
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Series B+18
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Series A11
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Seed2
Sutter Hill's 31 Power Law outcomes.
How does Sutter Hill stack up?
Sutter Hill in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Sutter Hill's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
86 founders across the 31 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Sutter Hill.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Sutter Hill Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Sutter Hill on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
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In the news
Latest news about Sutter Hill Ventures
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