Sutter Hill Ventures

Type

Venture Capital

Status

Active

Location

Palo Alto, United States

Total investments

329

Average round size

41M

Portfolio companies

153

Rounds per year

5.48

Lead investments

61

Follow on index

0.53

Exits

91

Stages of investment
Early Stage VentureLate Stage Venture
Areas of investment
BiotechnologySoftwareAnalyticsInformation TechnologyMobileHealth CareSaaSEnterprise SoftwareSecurityTelecommunications

Summary

Sutter Hill Ventures appeared to be the VC, which was created in 1964. The leading representative office of defined VC is situated in the Palo Alto. The company was established in North America in United States.

The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2018. When the investment is from Sutter Hill Ventures the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. Comparing to the other companies, this Sutter Hill Ventures performs on 2 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. The real fund results show that this VC is 5 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The common things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The high activity for fund was in 2007. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Sutter Hill Ventures, startups are often financed by Benchmark, Accel, Battery Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are OUP (Osage University Partners), Tenaya Capital, Maverick Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tenaya Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners.

This organization was formed by Paul Wythes, William Draper. The overall number of key employees were 9.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Telecommunications, Information Technology. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Youku, Snowflake Computing, Pure Storage. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 4-5 years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little.

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Investor highlights

Industry generalist
Yes
Industry focus
GeneralistAI/Big DataB2B/EnterpriseCloud/InfrastructureConsumer/Retail Show 6 more
Geo focus
Generalist

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Investments analytics

Analytics

Total investments
329
Lead investments
61
Exits
91
Rounds per year
5.48
Follow on index
0.53
Investments by industry
  • Software (132)
  • Enterprise Software (56)
  • SaaS (50)
  • Information Technology (45)
  • Analytics (44)
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Investments by region
  • United States (315)
  • United Kingdom (5)
  • China (2)
  • New Zealand (1)
  • Australia (1)
Peak activity year
2007
Number of Unicorns
13
Number of Decacorns
14
Number of Minotaurs
7

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Quantitative data

Avg. startup age at the time of investment
16
Avg. valuation at time of investment
469M
Group Appearance index
0.91
Avg. company exit year
9
Avg. multiplicator
3.88
Strategy success index
1.00

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Latest deals

Company name Deal date Industry Deal stage Deal size Location
ESCAPE Bio 14 Sep 2020 Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Early Stage Venture 73M United States, California, South San Francisco
Sigma Computing 16 Dec 2021 Internet, Analytics, Information Technology, Information Services, Business Intelligence Late Stage Venture 300M United States, California, San Francisco

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