Sutter Hill Ventures is a private equity

Private equity

Private equity, in finance, is an asset class consisting of equity securities in operating companies that are not publicly traded on a stock exchange....

 firm focused on venture capital

Venture capital

Venture capital is financial capital provided to early-stage, high-potential, high risk, growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in, which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries, such as...

 investments in technology-based start-up companies. The firm is based in Palo Alto, CA.

Founded in 1964 by Bill Draper

William Henry Draper III

William Henry Draper III is a prominent American venture capitalist.-Early life and career:Draper was born in White Plains, New York, the son of Katherine and banker and diplomat William Henry Draper, Jr. He attended Yale University with George H. W. Bush, graduated in 1950, the year after George...

 and Paul Wythes, Sutter Hill is one of the oldest venture capital firms still in operation. Draper would leave Sutter Hill in 1981 to serve as Chairman of the U.S. Export-Import Bank and later as Administrator and CEO of the United Nations Development Program.

Sutter Hill Ventures has investments in companies such as: Nvidia

NVIDIA

Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...

, Quinstreet

Quinstreet

QuinStreet, Inc. is a publicly traded online marketing company based in Foster City, CA with satellite offices worldwide. QuinStreet employs a performance-based advertising model with use of search engine marketing strategies to promote clients on Web sites in a number of verticals, including:...

, Lifescan

LifeScan

LifeScan, Inc. is a Johnson & Johnson company headquartered in Milpitas, California.LifeScan manufactures and markets Blood Glucose Monitoring Systems like the OneTouch Ultra family for home and hospital use...

, Volomedia

VoloMedia

VoloMedia is a Sunnyvale, California based advertising network that has developed technology to enable advertisements to be dynamically inserted into downloadable audio and video, such as podcasts. Large media publishers such as Public Radio International, MSNBC and Fox News utilize their...

, and Palm, Inc.

External links

• Sutter Hill Ventures (company website)