Sierra Ventures
VC Fund
San Mateo, United States
Sierra Ventures is a Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm investing globally with a focus on Next Generation Enterprise and Emerging Technologies. With over three decades of experience and over $2 billion of assets under management, Sierra has created a vast network of successful entrepreneurs, Global 1000 CXOs, operational executives, and deep domain experts, providing a platform for entrepreneurs around the world. Sierra Ventures primarily invests in Seed and Series A rounds, with a preference to lead investment rounds and reserve capital for follow on rounds. Investment sectors include artificial intelligence/machine learning, big data, cloud, fintech, health tech, IoT/infrastructure, marketplaces, SaaS & enterprise apps, security, and emerging technologies such as 5G, devices, blockchain, robotics, and virtual reality / augmented reality. Sierra Ventures typically makes initial investments between $500,000 and $7 million on average and invests between $500,000 and $15 million over the life of an investment. The firm has invested in leading companies such as Intuit, Invensense, Greenplum, MakeMyTrip, OnLink, Teradata, StrataCom, Sourcefire, Treasure Data, and more. Sierra Ventures was founded in 1982 and is based in San Mateo, California.
- Total investments:
- 413
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 30%
- Fund size:
- $266M
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sierra Ventures invests in
Stages Sierra Ventures invests in
Countries Sierra Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 15 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $2M–$11M
- Series A
- $5M–$21M
- Series B
- $5.7M–$38M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 79 (19%)
- Artificial Intelligence 48 (12%)
- Information Technology 47 (11%)
- SaaS 29 (7%)
- Enterprise Software 25 (6%)
Stage
- Series A 91 (22%)
- Seed 73 (18%)
- Series B 65 (16%)
- Series C 43 (10%)
- Series D 21 (5%)
Country
- United States 160 (39%)
- China 5 (1%)
- Canada 5 (1%)
- India 4 (1%)
- Israel 4 (1%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Peter Wendell
Founder
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Founder | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Al Ghous
Venture Advisor
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Venture Advisor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Anne Gherini
Chief Marketing Officer
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Chief Marketing Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Ben Yu
Managing Partner
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Managing Partner | Total investments: 105 | Find email | |
Daniel Paredes
Investor
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Investor | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 15 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thrixel is an AI-powered 3D model generation platform designed to integrate directly with coding agents, AI tools, and developer workflows. | $3M / Seed / Oct 08, 2026 | ||
| Siena AI is a developer of an autonomous chat platform that aims to transform the way it runs and interacts with consumers by combining human empathy and intelligent automation. The platform provides capabilities such as product information, order tracking, address changes, returns and product exchanges, subscription and retention management,allowing firms to conduct customer care and social media interactions autonomously. | $17M / Series A / Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Ande develops an AI-enabled B2B platform for managing corporate entertainment and hospitality operations. The company provides a hosted application that connects enterprises with restaurants and event venues to handle discovery, personalized venue selection, booking, and approvals. Its software enforces enterprise policies, supports procurement workflows, and generates structured expense and invoice data. Ande integrates with existing expense management systems to automate reimbursements and improve spend visibility. The company also offers a mobile application that allows employees and client-facing teams to book events, confirm compliance, and submit receipts while on the move. Its tools are used by corporate teams to coordinate board dinners, client meetings, and other hospitality events while reducing manual administration and paperwork. | $52M / Series A / Sep 22, 2026 | ||
| AI Hospitality Group offers an AI-powered hotel management platform to run back-office operations. It operates as a third-party hotel operator and manages functions such as staffing, scheduling, housekeeping, maintenance, purchasing, finance, revenue, labor, and compliance. Its proprietary AI agents coordinate work across existing hotel systems. | $7.5M / Seed / Sep 21, 2026 | ||
| Quintessent is a Santa Barbara start-up that commercializes quantum dot-based lasers and photonic integrated circuits. Its solutions leverage the unique properties of quantum dot gain media with co-designed architectures to enable future applications in optical networking, deep learning systems, and sensing.It is based in Santa Barbara,California. | $40M / Series A / Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Smallest.ai is a Software Development developing a voice AI foundation models for enterprise deployment, sales and support. | $13M / Series A / Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Phosio Corporation develops a photoresist material for the fabrication of high aspect ratio nanostructures. The company was founded in 2018 as a spin-off from Oregon State University's Department of Chemistry and the NSF-funded Center for Sustainable Materials Chemistry. | $4M / Seed / May 13, 2026 | ||
| BAND is the Developer of a universal AI platform that integrates and orchestrates intelligent agents across business systems. | $17M / Seed / Apr 23, 2026 | ||
| ArmorCode offers an AppSecOps platform that reduces application exposure and risk for customers. Its customers use the platform for AppSec Posture, Vulnerability and Compliance Management, and DevSecOps automation. ArmorCode AppSecOps platform is delivering a 10X AppSec Force Multiplier impact to several marquee enterprises. The company wasfounded in 2020 and is based in Palo Alto, California. | $16M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 03, 2026 | ||
| Expert Intelligence develops AI systems to scale expert decision-making in regulated laboratory conditions where data is restricted, stakes are high, and validation is required. | $4.7M / Seed / Feb 04, 2026 | ||
| See all 413 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Sierra Ventures invest in?
Sierra Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 413 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Sierra Ventures invest in?
Sierra Ventures typically joins rounds of $2M–$11M at Seed, $5M–$21M at Series A and $5.7M–$38M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Sierra Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Sierra Ventures took part in.
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Who are the partners at Sierra Ventures?
The team at Sierra Ventures includes Peter Wendell (Founder), Al Ghous (Venture Advisor) and Anne Gherini (Chief Marketing Officer), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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