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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 34 Power Law outcomes from Sutter Hill Ventures's portfolio — 29 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Biotech & Life Sciences · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · Ireland · China. Sutter Hill ranks #204 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

34 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #204 · Global · 34 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 21% 5y
29
Decacorns ↑ 100% 5y
8
Thoroughbreds ↑ 32% 5y
29
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia 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.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 34 Sutter Hill Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA32
  2. Ireland1
  3. China1
By sectorCount
  1. AI9
  2. Biotech & Life Sciences7
  3. Other B2B Software5
  4. Cybersecurity3
  5. Other3
  6. Marketing3
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
  8. Fintech1
  9. Transportation1
  10. Health Tech & Medtech1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+19
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed2
Estimated holdings

Sutter Hill’s biggest current 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.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 SiFiveSemiconductors · Unicorn 18% $3.6B $657M
  2. 2 Sila NanotechnologiesTransportation · Unicorn 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 →

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.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2000
Entered Series B+Now $151B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $58.4B
$22.3B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $51.4B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series ANow $27.8B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $21.6B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $10.9B
$1.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $8.4B
$8.3B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series B+
$8.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series ANow $8.0B
$990M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $7.2B
$6.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series A
$527M IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $4.9B
$4.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $733M
IPO · 2007
Entered Series B+Now $2.2B
$2.2B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
Ruckus Wireless
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $1.9B
$1.3B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$1.2B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

Sutter Hill's 34 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
34 of 34 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Sutter Hill stack up?

Sutter Hill in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

79 founders across the 34 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.

LocationCount
United States38
South Korea7
France4
Poland3
India3
Israel3
Ukraine3
Russia2
Canada2
United Kingdom2
+1 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University9
Berkeley5
Sorbonne University3
University of Kentucky3
Harvard Business School3
University of Guelph2
Weizmann Institute of Science2
Harvard University2
University of Pennsylvania2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
+31 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft7
Alphabet | Google4
Salesforce2
Nutanix2
Veeva Systems2
Yahoo!2
Tesla2
Apple2
Airbus1
C3.ai1
+16 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.

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…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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Latest news about Sutter Hill Ventures

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