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Sierra Ventures

VC
San Mateo, CAWebsite

Sierra Ventures is a Seed venture capital firm based in San Mateo, CA investing in Enterprise, Developer Tools, Security. The firm typically writes $500K–$7.0M checks and has 20 portfolio companies in our records.

Check size
$500K–$7.0M
Portfolio
20 companies on record
Partners
10 listed
AUM
$2B
Stage
Seed
Sectors
Enterprise, Developer Tools, Security
HQ
San Mateo, CA

Last verified: 2026-06-16

Stage

Seed

Check Size

$500K – $7.0M

AUM

$2.0B

Portfolio

20+ companies

Team

10 partners

Investor activity
Investments in last 12 months: 0

Investment Thesis

Early-stage enterprise and infrastructure investor with focus on cloud and security.

How Sierra Ventures invests

Sierra Ventures is a vc firm based in San Mateo, CA. The firm invests at the Seed stage, with a focus on Enterprise, Developer Tools, Security.

Sierra Ventures typically writes checks of $500K–$7.0M per investment, backed by approximately $2B in assets under management.

Sierra Ventures has backed 20 companies in our records, including OpsRamp, Fastly, Puppet.

Partners & Team

AG

Anne Gherini

Chief Marketing Officer

VR

Vignesh Ravikumar

Partner

GC

Grace Chen

Vice President of Finance

TG

Tim Guleri

Managing Director

SW

Steve Williams

Managing Director

BY

Ben Y

Managing Partner

BS

Brendon Schmidt

Business Development Director

MF

Mark Fernandes

Managing Director

JD

Jim Doehrman

Operating Partner

SG

Shomik Ghosh

Partner

Industry Focus

Invests In

Enterprise
Developer Tools
Security

Portfolio Companies (20)

Other

OP

OpsRamp

IT Operations
FA

Fastly

Edge Cloud
PU

Puppet

DevOps Automation
SE

ServiceNow

CI

Cigna

DE

Delta Airlines

P&

P&G

KA

Kaiser Permanente

GE

GEICO

CO

CoreWeave

How to pitch Sierra Ventures
  • Raising at Seed? You're squarely in their sweet spot.
  • Lead with your fit in Enterprise, Developer Tools, Security — the sectors they actively back.
  • Size your ask to their typical $500K – $7.0M check.
  • Address your outreach to a specific partner, such as Anne Gherini, Chief Marketing Officer.
  • A warm introduction beats a cold email. Get matched and request an intro.

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