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Sutter Hill Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 1962 · Active in 2026

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31 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #204 · Global · 31 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 17% 5y
28
Decacorns ↑ 100% 5y
8
Thoroughbreds ↑ 39% 5y
29

Sutter Hill Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1962. The page below shows 31 Power Law outcomes from Sutter Hill Ventures's portfolio — 28 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Other B2B Software · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · Ireland. Sutter Hill ranks #204 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 31 Sutter Hill Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA29
  2. China1
  3. Ireland1
By sectorCount
  1. AI9
  2. Other B2B Software5
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences5
  4. Marketing3
  5. Other3
  6. Cybersecurity2
  7. Fintech1
  8. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
  9. Health Tech & Medtech1
  10. Transportation1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+18
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

Sutter Hill's 31 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
31 of 31 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Sutter Hill's founders come from — and where they study.

86 founders across the 31 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States41
South Korea7
France4
Poland3
United Kingdom3
India3
Israel3
Ukraine3
Russia2
Canada2
+1 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University10
Berkeley5
Sorbonne University3
University of Kentucky3
Case Western Reserve University3
Harvard Business School3
University of Guelph2
Weizmann Institute of Science2
Harvard University2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
+32 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft6
Alphabet | Google4
Yahoo!2
Tesla2
Veeva Systems2
Illumina2
Nutanix2
Salesforce2
Apple2
Clear Labs1
+17 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Sutter Hill.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Sutter Hill stack up?

Sutter Hill in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Sutter Hill Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Sutter Hill on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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