Sutter Hill Ventures

1964

Founded

312

Investments

United States

Offices

Venture Fund

Investor Type

About

Sutter Hill Ventures is an American private equity firm specializing in venture capital investments in technology-based startups. Founded in 1964 by Bill Draper and Paul Wythes, it is one of the oldest venture capital firms still in operation. The firm is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and focuses on sectors such as networking and computer technology, business and financial services, healthcare, web development, and pop culture.

Sutter Hill Ventures has a history of early investments in companies like Qume, Diablo Systems, LSI Logic, and Banyan Systems. Notably, the firm incubated and invested in Snowflake Computing, which achieved a record-setting technology IPO in 2020.

Portfolio Companies

Snowflake Computing, Restoration Robotics, Pure Storage, Mattersight, Forty Seven, Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Molecular Templates, Cardica, Corcept Therapeutics

Gepgraphic Focus

United States, United Kingdom

Key Differentiators

One of the oldest venture capital firms still in operation, Early investments in notable companies like Snowflake Computing

Thypical Investment Size

Not publicly disclosed

Total Funds Raised

Not publicly disclosed

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Big Data & Analytics

Software

Developer Tools

CloudTech

SaaS

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML)

Palo Alto

Pre-Seed

Seed

Series A

Series B

Series C

Series D

United States