Sam Pullara
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Managing Director & CTO @ Sutter Hill Ventures at Sutter Hill Ventures
Location: Los Altos, California, United States 37 work roles 2 schools
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Sam Pullara previously worked as Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures and Investor at Observe, Inc.. Sam Pullara holds Ms, Physics from Northwestern University.

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I am a Managing Director for Sutter Hill Ventures and am always looking for amazing engineering teams solving hard technical problems in big markets.My current interests:- AI applications & AI infrastructure- Enterprise infrastructure: databases, storage, compute- Enterprise applications: mobile, SaaS, marketing, sales, etc.- Infrastructure as a service- Cloud enablement software- Revolutionary security infrastructureIf you are interested in pitching me and are not directly connected to me, please get an introduction through a mutual acquaintance.Specialties: venture capital, systems architecture, software development, open source, scaling, performance, nosql, big data, web services

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Sutter Hill Ventures
Sutter Hill Ventures
Managing Director & CTO @ Sutter Hill Ventures
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37 roles · 31 years

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Managing Director

Current

US

Investing in and helping amazing founders solving hard technology problems in big markets.

Nov 2012 - Present

Investor

Current

San Mateo, California, US

Aug 2017 - Present

Limited Partner

Current
Morado Venture Partners

Seed round investors in teams and ideas.Morado Venture Partners provides the resources entrepreneurs need to launch successful enterprises. Our partnership with our portfolio companies goes far beyond simply offering seed funding. We offer companies insights gained from experience, share their passion, and connect them to industry leaders who can help them.

Nov 2010 - Present

Limited Partner

Current

Woodside, California, US

Mar 2008 - Present

Eir

Woodside, California, US

I'm now an E but not IR.

Apr 2010 - Jan 2011

Angel Investor

Current
Gene Network Sciences

I made an angel investment in gene network sciences when systems biology was still in its infancy. You can see their website at http://www.gnsbiotech.com

Nov 2001 - Present

Investor

San Francisco, CA, US

Nov 2016 - Aug 2024

Investor

Sunnyvale, California, US

Looking for engineers with experience in front-end, stream processing, distributed systems, operating systems and data science. Two blocks from the Caltrain in Mountain View. Currently less than 10 people.

Jan 2015 - Aug 2024

Advisor

Nexenta Systems

Founded in 2005, Nexenta is the developer of NexentaStor, the leading OpenStorage, enterprise-class storage solution available today. NexentaStor uses open standards and protocols that have been accepted across industries and, with its open architecture, the system can be upgraded easily, significantly reducing costs by sidestepping proprietary hardware.

Apr 2008 - Aug 2018

Board Of Directors, Investor

San Mateo, CA, US

Acquired by Rakuten. Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores.

Jul 2015 - Jun 2018

Founder, Board Of Directors, Investor

Palo Alto, CA, US

Wavefront was acquired by VMWare.Wavefront provides companies with unparalleled visibility into the operations of their applications and systems through real-time analytics. Join our growing list of customers which include Box, Workday, First Data and Microsoft Yammer or join our team. Looking for strong front-end engineering candidates interested in data.

Jan 2013 - May 2017

Investor, Board Of Directors

Boxer, Inc.

Optimizing your mobile email workflow. Acquired by VMWare.

Oct 2013 - Oct 2015

Angel Investor

Santa Clara, CA, US

100% flash storage arrayLess than the cost of spinning disk.Flash memory is on pace to replace the spinning hard drive in performance storage, but to date it has been too expensive to deploy broadly. Pure Storage designed an all-flash storage array to overcome these challenges, delivering 100s of TBs of high-performance flash in a highly-available, plug.

Jan 2010 - Oct 2015

Investor, Board Of Directors

Foundationdb

(Acquired)FoundationDB's mission is to provide data storage technology that frees engineers and companies to focus on problems other than building their data stack. To that end, FoundationDB is creating a new generation of database technology that combines the advantages of modern NoSQL databases with the power and reliability of ACID transactions.

Nov 2013 - Mar 2015

Advisor

San Francisco, CA, US

Advising Twitter's engineering and corporate development teams.

Nov 2012 - Jul 2014

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA, US

Bagcheck was acquired by Twitter and I joined the engineering team. Helped slay the fail whale.

Aug 2011 - Oct 2012

Angel Investor

Austin, TX, US

Awesome way to organize your non-personal email right in your Yahoo! (and Google) inbox. Sold to ReturnPath.

May 2010 - Jan 2012

Cto/Ceo & Co-Founder

Bagcheck, Inc.

Whether it's cooking, photography, parenting, or sports —we all have a set of favorite items for doing what we love. Bagcheck is a fun and easy way to share these sets of items with people you know or share interests with. Here is what we built it with:http://bagcheck.com/bag/382-bagcheck-technology

May 2010 - Aug 2011

Technical Advisor

San Francisco, CA, US

May 2006 - May 2011

Chief Technologist

Sunnyvale, CA, US

I'm responsible for ensuring the products we develop across Yahoo! deliver competitive and truly compelling customer experiences, by driving a dialogue across internal product groups, Y!Labs, and business leaders; evaluating internal and external technologies; and driving improvements into our products. I also work closely with our M&A team, champion new.

Feb 2009 - Mar 2010

Vp Platforms

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Head of the Yahoo! Application Platform, Yahoo! Query Language, Yahoo! Pipes and representative on the OpenSocial Foundation Board. As is typical at Yahoo!, I still have all my previous jobs as well.

Aug 2008 - Feb 2009

Vp Platforms

Sunnyvale, CA, US

I've moved from strategizing about platforms, web services and opening Yahoo to helping it become a reality.

Jan 2008 - Aug 2008

Vp Of Technology Strategy

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Long term technology strategy and short term tactical technology recommendations across the breadth of Yahoo.

Jul 2006 - Dec 2007

Technical Advisor

Aliso Viejo, CA, US

I was on the technical advisory board of 3Tera, an early stage enterprise software company. 3Tera was acquired by CA.

Apr 2005 - Feb 2010

Chief Architect

Newbury, Berkshire, GB

Gauntlet Systems was acquired by Borland in January. At Borland we will integrate the Gauntlet technology into their ALM/LQM solutions.As a Chief Architect at Borland I am responsible both for the developer quality products and ensuring that we move towards a common technology platform across the company.

Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

Venture Consultant

Accel Venture Partners

Due diligence work, mostly in the consumer internet and enterprise software spaces.

Sep 2005 - Jul 2006

Ceo

Gauntlet Systems Corporation

Gauntlet Systems developed the first Intelligent Continuous Integration system that not only filters bad changes from being integrated into your software but also provides full visibility into the software development process.

May 2005 - Jan 2006

Angel Investor

4Charity.Com
Jan 2001 - Jan 2006

Eir

Palo Alto, CA, US

I am an EIR (entrepreneur in residence) at Accel Partners. In addition to developing an idea to found a company, I also evaluate possible investments, and consult for Accel's portfolio companies.

Oct 2004 - Aug 2005

Staff Engineer

US

I work in the technology advancement group. We stay on top of bleeding edge technologies and make recommendations and prototypes for new platform features.

Sep 1998 - Sep 2004

Private Equity Investor

Nextmonet.Com

This company merged with Visualize, Inc. and is still making its way in the online art market.

Sep 2000 - Sep 2003

Angel Investor

Popular Power

An early entry into the grid computing space that didn't quite make it. Eventually a company that does this will succeed.

Mar 2000 - Jun 2001

Software Engineer

Weblogic, Inc

Helped develop the WebLogic Application Server. WebLogic was sold to BEA Systems.

Dec 1996 - Sep 1998

Software Engineer

Whitman-Hart

Worked for Searle Corporation building a relation database to OLTP conversion system for their direct sales force.

1996 - 1996

Software Engineer

Transtech Corporation

Worked at TransUnion building the next generation credit bureau data processing system using DCE, VB, Sybase, DB/2 Parallel Edition and a cluster of RS/6000 SP2s.

1995 - 1996 ~1 yr
2 education records

Sam Pullara education

Ms, Physics

Northwestern University

Bs, Physics

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Sam Pullara works for Sutter Hill Ventures.

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Sam Pullara is listed as Managing Director & CTO @ Sutter Hill Ventures at Sutter Hill Ventures.

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Sam Pullara is based in Los Altos, California, United States while working with Sutter Hill Ventures.

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Sam Pullara has worked for Sutter Hill Ventures, Observe, Inc., Morado Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, and Gene Network Sciences.

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Sam Pullara holds Ms, Physics from Northwestern University.

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