Venture Capital · Profile from Venture Capital Research Companion
Redpoint Ventures
The Menlo Park partnership formed in 1999 when early-stage partners of Brentwood Venture Capital and Institutional Venture Partners combined into a new firm — a mid-sized, infrastructure-and-developer-focused investor that has stayed deliberately smaller than the multi-stage giants, with an early-stage fund family and a separate "Omega" growth family, and outsized wins in Snowflake, Twilio, Heroku and HashiCorp.
At a glance
- Founded
- 1999, Menlo Park, California
- Founders
- Partners drawn from Brentwood Venture Capital and Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), including Geoff Yang, Tim Haley, John Walecka, Jeff Brody and Brad Jones (with Tom Dyal among the early partners)
- Headquarters
- Menlo Park, CA (Sand Hill Road); San Francisco; Los Angeles. Affiliates historically in Beijing/Shanghai (Redpoint China Ventures) and São Paulo (Redpoint eventures)
- Ownership / structure
- Private partnership; general partners own the management company
- Leadership (2026)
- No single managing partner. Early-stage partners include Satish Dharmaraj, Alex Bard, Annie Kadavy and Erica Brescia; growth (Omega) partners include Scott Raney, Logan Bartlett, Jacob Effron and Elliot Geidt (roles change; verify). Founders Yang, Walecka, Haley, Brody and Jones are emeritus or less active
- AUM / capital raised
- ~$4.5bn AUM (2025, reported); other sources cite ~$5.8–6bn including affiliates and appreciation
- Stage focus
- Seed/Series A (early funds) and Series B–pre-IPO (Omega growth funds); enterprise infrastructure, developer tools, data, fintech, consumer internet; AI infrastructure and applications since 2023
- Signature investments
- Wins: Snowflake, Twilio, Heroku, HashiCorp, HomeAway, Acompli, Pure Storage, Zendesk, 2U, Just Eat, Right Media, Responsys, Stripe (reported), Poolside, Ramp, Abridge. Partner legacy: Netflix, Juniper, Foundry (IVP/Brentwood era). Misses/failures: 2000-vintage losses; 2U's 2024 bankruptcy (after IPO); China semiconductor exposure controversy (2021)
8 deals and moves analysed
Each one gets a full strategy file in the companion: context, the decision, the financing, what happened, and the lesson.
2006
HomeAway
Venture Financing
2008
2U
Early Venture Rounds
2008
Heroku
Series A
2013
Twilio
Series D
2014
Acompli
Series A
2014
HashiCorp
Series A
2014
Snowflake
Series B
2023
Poolside
Seed