Sutter Hill Ventures

Runs a proactive incubation model: partners identify a market gap, recruit a founder-in-residence and drive company creation from day one, providing space, hiring the first engineers and sometimes serving as interim management to de-risk the earliest stage.

$2.3B (2026) AUM 73/100 Power Score™ 1964 Founded Palo Alto, CA
Enterprise Software Infrastructure Cybersecurity Cloud
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Firm Timeline

1964
Founded by Bill Draper and Paul Wythes.
2012
Led Snowflake's $5M Series A.
2024
Led Observe's $115M Series B.