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Redpoint Ventures
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Redpoint Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs to create new markets and redefine existing ones, investing across seed, early, and growth stages. The firm takes a depth-first approach — building mastery and conviction in specific domains rather than surface-level opportunism — and backs bold builders with technical depth and conviction to build enduring $1B+ companies. Redpoint's core focus areas are AI infrastructure and applications, cloud and data infrastructure, enterprise software, developer tools, and cybersecurity. The firm leads or co-leads most rounds and maintains substantial follow-on reserves to support portfolio companies through multiple stages.
Notable quotes
“I don't care about margins at all right now. I care about winning in the market... We are more likely to back really young, just insanely high velocity founders that we think will run through walls to win — they might not even have the founder market fit that we used to look for pretty consistently.”
“Focus on efficient growth over growth at all costs. Especially in this macro environment, investors don't just want to see top line revenue growth; they want to see that you can achieve that growth with sound business fundamentals.”
“The venture investors you work with tend to be more committed to the asset class through different cycles. Traditional investors invested $62B into the asset class even at the peak vs. non-traditional investors at $286B.”
Team
Alex Bard
Managing Director, Early
Erica Brescia
Managing Director, Early
Jacob Effron
Managing Director, Growth
Logan Bartlett
Managing Director, Growth
Patrick Chase
Managing Director, Early
Recent investments
| Company | Round | Size | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snowflake | Series B | — | 2017-01-01 |
| Stripe | Seed | — | 2012-01-01 |
| Ramp | Series B | — | 2021-01-01 |
| HashiCorp | Series A | — | 2015-01-01 |
| Twilio | Series A | — | 2010-01-01 |
| Mistral AI | Seed | — | 2023-06-01 |
| Aaru | Series A | $80m | 2025-01-01 |
| Gradient Labs | Series A | — | 2025-06-01 |
| ClickHouse | Series B | — | 2022-01-01 |
| Cribl | Series C | — | 2021-01-01 |
Frequent co-investors
| VC firm | Deals together |
|---|---|
| Sequoia Capital | 27 |
| Andreessen Horowitz | 22 |
| Lightspeed Venture Partners | 15 |
| Accel | 13 |
| General Catalyst | 13 |
| Benchmark | 13 |
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