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Sutter Hill Ventures

Founders Paul Wythes William Draper

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Total investments 332
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$42M
Portfolio companies 155
Rounds per year 5.53
Lead investments 62
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.53
Exits 91
Key employees 9
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • Enterprise Software
  • SaaS
  • Information Technology
  • Analytics
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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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Integrated Biosciences

03 Oct 2024 -

AttoTude

Information Technology
Internet
$29M10 Sep 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Augment

$227M24 Apr 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Observe

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Data Integration
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$145M27 Mar 2024 California, United States

Augment

$25M01 Jan 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Observe

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Data Integration
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$50M05 Oct 2023 California, United States

Enfabrica

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$125M12 Sep 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Observe

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Data Integration
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$70M11 May 2022 California, United States

Astronomer

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
$213M23 Mar 2022 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
News
DataRobot Unveils Major Milestones, Including $300M Series G Funding Investment

– DataRobot announced a $300m Series G funding round to fuel platform innovation and enable DataRobot to bring the transformative impact of Augmented Intelligence to customers around the world.
– The round was led by return investors Altimeter Capital and Tiger Global and joined by new investors Counterpoint Global, Franklin Templeton, ServiceNow Ventures, and Sutter Hill Ventures.
– DataRobot’s Augmented Intelligence platform is currently trusted by a third of the Fortune 50. By empowering organizations large and small across industries to use AI to help solve key business challenges, including building better products, improving customer relationships, more accurately forecasting demand, and decreasing costs, its platform helps generate tremendous value for customers.

Ghost Pulls In $100M Series D Round

– Ghost has announced the closing of a $100m Series D financing.
– Returning investors Sutter Hill Ventures and Founders Fund participated in the round, along with a new commitment from Coatue.
– The financing is fueling the development of its autonomous driving system that features a revolutionary breakthrough in crash prevention.

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Total investments 332
Average round size 42M
Rounds per year 5.53
Peak activity year 2007
Lead investments 62
Follow on index 0.53
Exits 91
Group Appearance index 0.91

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Integrated Biosciences

03 Oct 2024 -

AttoTude

Information Technology
Internet
$29M10 Sep 2024 Menlo Park, California, United States

Augment

$227M24 Apr 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Observe

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Data Integration
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$145M27 Mar 2024 California, United States

Augment

$25M01 Jan 2024 Palo Alto, California, United States

Observe

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Data Integration
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$50M05 Oct 2023 California, United States

Enfabrica

Artificial Intelligence
Information Technology
Software
$125M12 Sep 2023 Mountain View, California, United States

Observe

Analytics
Business Information Systems
Data Integration
Information Services
Information Technology
SaaS
Software
$70M11 May 2022 California, United States

Astronomer

Analytics
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Data Integration
Enterprise Software
$213M23 Mar 2022 Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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