Sutter Hill
Venture Capital
High-touch Venture Creation
Palo Alto, United States · 133+ investments · 134 portfolio companies
Seed
Early Stage
Cloud
Data & Analytics
Healthcare
SaaS
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto, United States
- Founded
- 1962
- Website
- shv.com
- AUM
- $2.0B
- Portfolio Companies
- 134
- Total Investments
- 133
- Last Investment
- Jun 2026
- Geographic Focus
- United States
Investment Thesis
Venture creation model — originates and builds companies from day zero alongside founding entrepreneurs. Partners take concentrated bets, acting as co-founders with deep operational involvement from inception through IPO.
Sutter Hill is a Venture Capital firm based in Palo Alto, United States. It has made 133 investments in Cloud and Data & Analytics, including DemandBa, Corcept Therapeutics and Lifesize.
Portfolio134
W
Wavefront
BS
Banyan Systems
LC
LSI Corporation
FN
FreeMonee Network
CT
Cor Therapeutics
GL
Ghost Locomotion
TP
Threshold Pharmaceuticals
MT
Molecular Templates
D
DemandbaseA
Actiance
BN
Benu NetworksE
eLoyalty
Co-investors24
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24 co-investors across 193 shared portfolio companies — who they back alongside, and how often they lead.
Venture Capital ×16 · Hedge Fund ×3 · Corporate VC ×2 · 91 shared rounds
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