VC  Sierra Ventures

https://www.sierraventures.com/





     Office Locations:

1400 Fashion Island Blvd Ste 1010
San Mateo, CA 94404
Phone: 650-854-1000
Fax: 650-854-5593

 

Stages:

  • Early
  • Growth
  • Seed


 

Industries:

  • Communications & Networking
  • Energy & Clean Tech
  • Information Technology
  • Semiconductor
  • Software & Internet
  • Storage & Hardware

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    Description:

    Founded in 1982, Sierra Ventures invests in companies that focus in software, telecommunications, semiconductor, hardware systems, components and subsystems, mobile applications, Internet, technology enabled services, security storage, and energy. Sierra Ventures manages nine venture capital partnerships, which together have more than $2 billion of committed capital and more than 100 successful IPO and M&A exits in the past 37 years. Sierra's investments will be made over several rounds of financing with an initial investment between $2 million and $25 million. Sierra Ventures typically invests in early to mid stage companies, including companies with revenue of $1 million per quarter or more. Sierra also makes seed-stage investments of $500,000 to $2 million in selected companies. Since 2006, Sierra Ventures has been an active, early-stage investor in India and China. The firm's investment focus for these regions includes domestic consumer solutions, advanced technology and enterprise class services offerings.


     

    Funds:


      Fund Name


      Amount


      Date

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    Investment Firm Key

       VC = Venture Capital
       PE = Private Equity
       A = Angel
       I = Incubator
       MB = Merchant Bank
       VD = Venture Debt
       FI = Family Investment Office
       FOF = Fund of Funds
       ED = Economic Development Office   
       TT = Technology Transfer Office
       CVC = Corporate Venture Capital
       SEC = Secondary Purchaser
       HF = Hedge Fund/Mutual Fund
       
       
       
    COMPANY STAGEREVENUE
    Venture Capital
    Seed Stage
    (includes "pre-seed," or
    concept stage)
    No Revenue
    Early StageMinimal
    Revenue
    Growth Stage
    (also called Mid-stage)
    $2M-$7M
    Expansion Stage
    (also called Late-stage)
    $7M and greater
    Private Equity
    Lower Middle Market$10M-$249M
    Middle Market$250M-$499M
    Upper Middle Market$500M-$1B
    Large Cap>$1B
       
       
     

    Investment Team:


    Name   Title
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    Adam Dawkins Investor
    Allie Klun Head of Marketing & Platform
    Ben Yu Managing Partner
    Brendon Schmidt Director
    Grace Chen Controller

     

    Recent Funding Events (trailing 12 months):


      Date


      Name


      State


      Amount


      Stage


      11/21/2024


      VISO Trust


      CA


      $24,000,000


      Venture


      08/27/2024


      Planera


      CA


      $13,500,000


      Series A


      03/14/2024


      Quintessent


      CA


      $11,500,000


      Seed


     

    Portfolio companies include:


      Agent IQ
        web link


      Alpine Data Labs
        web link


      Appcues
        web link


      Applitools
        web link


      ArmorCode
        web link


      Astronomer
        web link


      Balto
        web link


      Bitfusion
        web link


      CNEX Labs
        web link


      DeepHow
        web link


      Enable
        web link


      Endor Labs
        web link


      Fabric Commerce
        web link


      Falcon Computing Solutions
        web link


      Hired


      Invisible AI
        web link


      K4Connect
        web link


      Kinnek
        web link


      Lemonaid Health
        web link


      Nexenta Systems
        web link


      Nexgate


      NextInput
        web link


      Omniex
        web link


      Pantomath
        web link


      Paro
        web link


      Phenom People
        web link


      Planera
        web link


      Prelert


      Qeexo
        web link


      Qualiti
        web link


      Quintessent
        web link


      Reify Health
        web link


      Runnable
        web link


      Shape Security
        web link


      Sikka Software
        web link


      Spectro Cloud
        web link


      SupportLogic
        web link


      Tempo AI
        web link


      Thismoment
        web link


      Treasure Data
        web link


      VISO Trust
        web link


      Zaloni
        web link


      Zeni
        web link


      Zimperium
        web link


     

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