# Mike Speiser

> Mike Speiser is a Series C investor at Sutter Hill Ventures backing Software. See 39 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sutter Hill Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sutter-hill-ventures)
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 39
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 51%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikespeiser
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/laserlikemike
- Website: https://x.com/laserlikemike

Mike Speiser is a Series C investor at Sutter Hill Ventures in Palo Alto focused on Software and Analytics. Mike Speiser is the Managing Director of Sutter Hill Ventures. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 21% |
| Analytics | 4 | 10% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 10% |
| SaaS | 3 | 8% |
| Enterprise Software | 3 | 8% |

30 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series C | 9 | 23% |
| Series B | 7 | 18% |
| Series D | 6 | 15% |
| Series A | 4 | 10% |
| Series F | 3 | 8% |

9 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sila | Sila Nanotechnologies is an electronics company that offers new battery materials chemistry. It works directly with leading consumer electronics and automotive OEMs to help accelerate product roadmaps, and partners with battery manufacturers commercial cell production. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in California, United States. | $300M | Private Equity | Jul 21, 2026 |  |
| Observe | Observe is an observability platform built on a streaming data lake for faster search and correlation at a lower cost. The company uses an O11y Knowledge Graph to structure logs, metrics, and traces as entities with semantic relationships. It also uses O11y AI to help resolve incidents faster and reduce costs. | $156M | Series C | Jul 30, 2025 |  |
| Sila | Sila Nanotechnologies is an electronics company that offers new battery materials chemistry. It works directly with leading consumer electronics and automotive OEMs to help accelerate product roadmaps, and partners with battery manufacturers commercial cell production. The company was founded in 2011 and headquartered in California, United States. | $375M | Series G | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Augment Code | Augment Code builds AI agents that understand entire codebases to generate, review, and manage software. It offers deep contextual code comprehension, IDE and CLI integration, and automated task coordination. Developers can also leverage semantic code analysis, remote agents, and personalized prompt suggestions to streamline complex projects. | $227M | Series B | Apr 24, 2024 |  |
| Observe | Observe is an observability platform built on a streaming data lake for faster search and correlation at a lower cost. The company uses an O11y Knowledge Graph to structure logs, metrics, and traces as entities with semantic relationships. It also uses O11y AI to help resolve incidents faster and reduce costs. | $145M | Series B | Mar 27, 2024 |  |
| Luminary | Luminary Cloud is an early-stage tech startup that focuses on innovations in computing for enterprise industrial R&D. It is currently developing its initial product in stealth mode. The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 13, 2024 |  |
| Clumio | Clumio is the innovator of authentic SaaS for enterprise backup. Using this secure service, organizations eliminate hardware and software for on-premise backup and avoid the complexity and cost of running 3rd party backup software in the cloud. As enterprises move aggressively to cloud, they use Clumio to protect workloads like VMware Cloud on AWSand native AWS services. Born in the public cloud, Clumio can leverage the most modern cloud services to ensure it meets the current and future backup requirements of the most demanding enterprises. | $75M | Series D | Feb 21, 2024 |  |
| Augment Code | Augment Code builds AI agents that understand entire codebases to generate, review, and manage software. It offers deep contextual code comprehension, IDE and CLI integration, and automated task coordination. Developers can also leverage semantic code analysis, remote agents, and personalized prompt suggestions to streamline complex projects. | $25M | Series A | Jan 01, 2024 |  |
| Observe | Observe is an observability platform built on a streaming data lake for faster search and correlation at a lower cost. The company uses an O11y Knowledge Graph to structure logs, metrics, and traces as entities with semantic relationships. It also uses O11y AI to help resolve incidents faster and reduce costs. | $50M | Series A | Oct 05, 2023 |  |
| Observe | Observe is an observability platform built on a streaming data lake for faster search and correlation at a lower cost. The company uses an O11y Knowledge Graph to structure logs, metrics, and traces as entities with semantic relationships. It also uses O11y AI to help resolve incidents faster and reduce costs. | $70M | Series A | May 11, 2022 |  |

10 of 39 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Altimeter Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/altimeter-capital) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Snowflake Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/snowflake-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Capital One Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/capital-one-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Human Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/human-capital-da7c) — VC Fund, 5 deals together

## About Sutter Hill Ventures

VC Fund · Palo Alto, United States

Sutter Hill Ventures has financed technology-based start-ups and assisted entrepreneurs in building companies since 1962. Through their decades of experience, they have developed strong industry networks, considerable operating and venture capital experience, and an understanding of the challenges that early-stage and high-growth companies face.They offer expertise in developing business strategies and partnerships, building management teams, and financing companies in both public and private markets.They have experienced operating executives who love building companies. Their approach is straightforward. They have a collegial and uncomplicated operating style that is direct and results-driven. They work as a team to respond quickly to new investment proposals and to their portfolio companies needs. Once they invest in a company, they bring to bear their time, expertise, and extensive industry networks to help these companies succeed. Building companies is their top priority and their favorite occupation.They have structured Sutter Hill to allow them to invest in a focused portfolio of early-stage companies and build value for the long term. They are always available to their CEOs and founders as advisors and mentors ready with practical and strategic advice from their own venture capital and operating experiences. They don't insist on winning every argument, but they will always tell you what they think. They also have a network of executives, advisors, and support infrastructure to help their portfolio get going in the right direction quickly. As former line managers themselves, they know the vision, energy, and commitment that building a successful company requires. They strive to build partnerships with entrepreneurs that combine dedicated support from Sutter Hill with trust that the teams they back can make good decisions and execute on the details.Their limited partners have committed long-term support to their evergreen fund which allows them to make long-term commitments to their companies. In addition, a significant portion of every dollar they invest in their own money, and each one of them participates in every investment. This direct investment reinforces each partner's commitment to every company in their portfolio and ensures that they bring every available resource to bear in helping their companies succeed.

5 contacts available at Sutter Hill Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andy Sheehan | Managing Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andy-sheehan |
| Dave Anderson | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dave-anderson |
| Doug Mohr | Managing Director | — |
| Len Baker | Managing Director | — |
| Mike Speiser | Managing Director | — |

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## FAQ

### What does Mike Speiser invest in?

Mike Speiser invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series C and Series B stage. Most of the 39 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### How do I contact Mike Speiser?

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### When did Mike Speiser last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Mike Speiser closed in Jul 2026. Shizune tracks 39 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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