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Sutter Hill Ventures

Sutter Hill Ventures is one of the oldest and most successful venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. While primarily known for enterprise software investments, the firm has made strategic investments in healthcare technology, genomics, and life sciences data companies.

Location
Palo Alto, California, USA
Founded
1962
AUM
$5B+
Investment Range
$5M - $100M
Portfolio Companies
1
Focus
generalist
Fund Stages
seed, series-a, series-b, series-c, growth

Investment Thesis

Sutter Hill Ventures partners with exceptional entrepreneurs building transformative technology companies. They take a long-term approach, often investing from inception and supporting companies through multiple rounds of financing. In healthcare, they focus on companies leveraging technology and data to transform healthcare delivery and life sciences research.

Team

Partners / Managing Directors

  • Mike Speiser - Managing Director
  • Sam Pullara - Managing Director
  • Stefan Dyckerhoff - Managing Director
  • Jishnu Bhattacharjee - Managing Director

Other Key Team Members

  • Tench Coxe - Managing Director
  • Dave Strohm - Managing Director Emeritus

Focus Areas

  • Enterprise Software
  • Data Infrastructure
  • Cloud Computing
  • Healthcare Technology
  • Genomics Data Platforms
  • AI & Machine Learning

Notable Portfolio Companies (Healthcare/Biotech)

  • Helix - Population genomics platform ($200M funding round, 2018)
  • Snowflake - Cloud data platform (used extensively in healthcare)
  • Pure Storage - Data storage (healthcare applications)

Notable Exits

  • Snowflake - IPO (2020, NYSE: SNOW, largest software IPO ever)
  • Pure Storage - IPO (2015, NYSE: PSTG)
  • Nutanix - IPO (2016, NASDAQ: NTNX)
  • ServiceMax - Acquired (2016, acquired by GE)
  • Quantcast - Ongoing

Sources

Portfolio Companies

NameLocationFoundedCategories
HelixSan Mateo, California, USA2015
genomics-sequencingpopulation-health+2