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Sutter Hill Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 1962 · Palo Alto, United States

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Investing for the long-term in great teams solving hard technology problems in big markets

144 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $15B invested · 313 investments · Investor rank #169 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 11% 5y
144
Decacorns ↑ 17% 5y
7
Thoroughbreds ↑ 12% 5y
29
Exits

Sutter Hill 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 Sutter Hill Ventures’s transaction record.

Nvidia
$625M IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $4.8TGaming
Snowflake
$68B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $93BHosting
Astera Labs
$604M IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $51BSemiconductors
Horizon Therapeutics
$416M IPO · 2011
Entered Series ANow $28BHealth
Pure Storage
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $22BSemiconductors
Acceleron Pharma
$385M IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $12BHealth
Corcept Therapeutics
$283M IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $9.4BHealth
GRAIL
$8.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series ANow $8.0BHealth
Smartsheet
$990M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $7.2BEnterprise Software
io
$6.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series AConsumer Electronics
Forty Seven
$527M IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $4.9BHealth
C3.ai
$4.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $801MEnterprise Software
Portfolio analysis

Where Sutter Hill Ventures's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 144 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA134
  2. China3
  3. UK3
  4. Australia1
  5. Brazil1
  6. Ireland1
  7. New Zealand1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software48
  2. Health25
  3. Marketing20
  4. Security13
  5. Semiconductors12
  6. Fintech10
  7. Telecom10
  8. Media8
  9. Energy4
  10. Transportation4
  11. Hosting3
  12. Travel3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+83
  2. Series A50
  3. Seed10
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth63
  2. Breakout Stage60
  3. Early Growth18
  4. Mature3
Portfolio market map

Inside Sutter Hill Ventures's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 144 tracked.

Ramp
Fintech · Decacorn
$44B
Lacework
Security · Unicorn
$8.3B
GRAIL
Health · Unicorn
$8.0B
Sila Nanotechnologies
Energy · Unicorn
$1.2B
Snowflake
Hosting · Decacorn
$93B
DataRobot
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.3B
SiFive
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$3.6B
Sigma Computing
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.5B
Pure Storage
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$22B
Observe
Enterprise Software
$624M
Helix
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Astronomer
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
Portola Pharmaceuticals
Health · Unicorn
$1.4B
Sumo Logic
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
Pacific Biosciences
Health
$873M
Infinera
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.2B
Rigetti Computing
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$4.3B
Clumio
Enterprise Software
$675M
Menlo Security
Security
$400M
Augment Code
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Enfabrica
Semiconductors
$460M
io
Consumer Electronics · Unicorn
$6.5B
e-Rewards
Marketing
$60M
C3.ai
Enterprise Software
$801M
Bracket Computing
Security
$186M
Ghost Autonomy
Transportation
$227M
Astera Labs
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$51B
Glassdoor
Media · Unicorn
$1.2B
Luminary Cloud
Enterprise Software
$575M
Vlocity
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.3B
Demandbase
Marketing
$260M
nEye Systems
Semiconductors
$320M
RedSeal
Security
$58M
Forty Seven
Health · Unicorn
$4.9B
Return Path
Marketing
$140M
Atmosic
Semiconductors
$360M
Celero Communications
Semiconductors
$400M
Everest Systems
Enterprise Software
$560M
Instart Logic
Marketing
$36M
E Scape Bio
Health
$292M
Acceleron Pharma
Health · Decacorn
$12B
AttoTude
Hosting
$208M
Intacct
Fintech
$850M
MATRIXX Software
Fintech
$200M
Artas
Health
$200M
Aria Networks
Hosting
$500M
Smartsheet
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$7.2B
youku
Media
$160M
Xoft
Health
$5.5M
Yext
Telecom
$668M
ThousandEyes
Telecom · Unicorn
$1.0B
Radiance Technologies
Security
$104M
TOA Technologies
Marketing
$264M
Kineto Wireless
Telecom
$62M
Platfora
Event Tech
$120M
ChoiceStream
Marketing
$56M
Gridcare
Security
$256M
SilverRail
Travel
$13M
Benu Networks
Telecom
$40M
Digital Chocolate
Gaming
$48M
Portfolio founders

Where Sutter Hill Ventures's portfolio founders come from.

109 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 States87
  2. Ireland3
  3. New Zealand2
  4. United Kingdom2
  5. Argentina1
  6. Canada1
  7. Cuba1
  8. Germany1
  9. Greece1
  10. Israel1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University13
  2. University of California, Berkeley6
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  4. Harvard University3
  5. Cornell University2
  6. Imperial College London2
  7. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay2
  8. Princeton University2
  9. Sorbonne University2
  10. The University of Chicago2
Previous companyCount
  1. Sutter Hill Ventures11
  2. Alphabet | Google5
  3. Apple5
  4. IBM5
  5. Oracle5
  6. Stanford University5
  7. Sunopsis5
  8. Tangosol5
  9. Juniper Networks4
  10. Microsoft4
How Sutter Hill Ventures stacks up

Similar investors.

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

Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#54 rank 847 companies $1.9T portfolio
Intel Capital
Corporate Venture Fund · Santa Clara
#76 rank 983 companies $1.1T portfolio
Kleiner Perkins
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#51 rank 775 companies $8.4T portfolio
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#10 rank 952 companies $2.4T portfolio
NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,184 companies $2.5T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,063 companies $1.9T portfolio
Tiger Global
Venture Capital · New York City
#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Sutter Hill Ventures.

James Gaither
James Gaither
Partner
 Samuel Breed
Samuel Breed
Partner
 Jon Engler
Jon Engler
Partner
 Amelia Wattenberger
Amelia Wattenberger
Partner
 Dave Anderson
Dave Anderson
Partner
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.