Sutter Hill Ventures

Sutter Hill Ventures is a California-based venture capital firm established in 1962 that specializes in financing early-stage technology and life science companies across the United States. With extensive experience in sectors such as internet software, network equipment, semiconductors, and biomedicine, the firm focuses on building long-term partnerships with entrepreneurs. Sutter Hill Ventures provides valuable expertise in business strategy, management team development, and financing, both in public and private markets. Their approach is characterized by a collegial and results-driven style, enabling them to respond swiftly to investment proposals and the needs of portfolio companies. The firm emphasizes a hands-on commitment, with partners actively investing their own capital alongside limited partners and serving as advisors and mentors to the companies they support. This structure allows Sutter Hill Ventures to maintain a focused portfolio and ensure that they leverage their resources and networks to help their portfolio companies succeed.

Len Baker

Managing Director

Tench Coxe

Managing Director

Doug Mohr

Managing Director

Sam Pullara

Managing Director

Michael Speiser

Managing Director

Dave Sweet

Managing Director

Dave Weiper

Partner

James N. White

MD

Jim White

Managing Partner

William H. Younger

Managing Director

Past deals in Series G

Ruckus Wireless

Series G in 2012
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, Ruckus Wireless, Inc.(NYSE: RKUS) is a global supplier of advanced wireless systems for the rapidly expanding mobile Internet infrastructure market. The company offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor “Smart Wi-Fi” products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises, and has over 48,000 end-customers worldwide. Ruckus technology addresses Wi-Fi capacity and coverage challenges caused by the ever-increasing amount of traffic on wireless networks due to accelerated adoption of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets. Ruckus invented and has patented state-of-the-art wireless voice, video, and data technology innovations, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase client data rates, and avoid interference, providing consistent and reliable distribution of delay-sensitive multimedia content and services over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi.