Sand Hill Road

Sand Hill Road

View of Sand Hill Road, with the Hoover Tower at Stanford University visible in the distance
Location	Menlo Park, California Palo Alto, California Woodside, California
West end	Portola Road in Woodside
Major junctions	I-280
East end	SR 82 (El Camino Real) in Palo Alto
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Known for	Silicon Valley Venture capitalism

Sand Hill Road, often shortened to just "Sand Hill", is an arterial road in Menlo Park, California, notable for its concentration of venture capital companies. The road has become a metonym for that industry; nearly every top Silicon Valley company has been the beneficiary of early funding from firms on Sand Hill Road.

Its significance as a symbol of private equity in the United States is compared to that of Wall Street and the , and K Street in Washington, D.C. and political lobbying.

Connecting El Camino Real and Interstate 280, the road provides easy access to Stanford University and the northwestern area of Silicon Valley. The road also runs southwest of Interstate 280 into a residential neighborhood of Woodside, California, but the private equity companies are concentrated to the east of the freeway on the main stretch of the road in Menlo Park. On its northeast end, it crosses into and runs briefly through Palo Alto before ending at El Camino Real.

Sand Hill Road is also home to the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

For many years, Sand Hill Road's northern end terminated in the middle of Stanford Shopping Center's parking lot, and the only four-lane segment was the section from Interstate 280 to Santa Cruz Avenue (the section where all the venture capitalists are housed). This situation resulted in two severe bottlenecks which made it difficult to travel to and from Stanford Shopping Center, Stanford University, and Menlo Park.