Sutter Hill Ventures
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Sutter Hill Ventures is an American
Palo Alto, CA, the firm is primarily focused on investments in the fields of networking and computer technology, business and financial services, healthcare, web development, and pop culture, and have been known to invest in angel funds.[2]
History
Sutter Hill Ventures was founded in 1964 by Bill Draper and Paul Wythes. It began as an off-shoot of a real estate firm and was licensed as a Small Business Investment Company.[3] The firm was an early investor in companies including Qume, a maker of disk drives and printers acquired in 1978 by ITT, and Diablo Systems, a pioneer of daisy-wheel printers that was acquired by Xerox in 1972. In the 1980s, the firm provided seed money for LSI Logic and Banyan Systems.[1]
Notable Investments
The firm has held positions in a number of publicly traded companies, including
IPO in 2020.[5]
References
- ^ a b Arnold, Laurence (5 November 2012). "Paul Wythes, Pioneering Venture Capitalist, Dies at 79". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
- ^ Jane Perry, Mauree. "Paul Wythes Interview" (PDF). UC Berkeley Library. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
- ^ "Sutter Hill Ventures - Latest Holdings". Fintel.io. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Levy, Ari (7 January 2021). "A low-profile investor who bet on Snowflake eight years ago is up more than $12 billion after IPO pop". CNBC.
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