# Jeff Sutherland

> Jeff Sutherland is a startup investor at OpenView. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [OpenView](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/openview-venture-partners)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsutherland

Jeff Sutherland is a Senior Adviser at OpenView Venture Partners. Jeff provides advice to the investment team and coaching in the use of agile development techniques to OpenView's portfolio companies.Jeff is the inventor of Scrum Agile Development Process, the effective approach for managing software development teams. Jeff is alsoknown as one of the signatories of the Agile Manifesto, helping in the creation of the Agile Alliance, which brings all Agile development processes under one common umbrella. In addition, Jeff has served as the CTO of several notable organizations, on the Microsoft Business Framework Advisory Council, and has traveled the globe extensively coaching development organizations in the US, Europe, and Latin America.Source:

## About OpenView

VC Fund · Boston, United States

OpenView is an expansion stage venture firm that helps grow software companies like Instructure, Kareo, Datadog, and Expensify into market leaders. Through OpenView's Expansion Platform, they help companies hire the best talent, acquire, and retain the right customers and partner with industry leaders so they can dominate their markets.OpenView's focus on the expansion stage makes it suited to provide truly tailored operational support to their portfolio companies.OpenView Partners has adopted the Diversity Term Sheet Rider.

5 contacts available at OpenView.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Price | Senior Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-price-4 |
| Jeff Sutherland | Senior Adviser | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-sutherland |
| Scott Maxwell | Founder and Senior Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/scott-maxwell |
| Ariel Winton-Jones | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ariel-winton-jones |
| Blake Bartlett | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blake-bartlett |

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