Redpoint Ventures

Redpoint Ventures, established in 1999, is a leading venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. With over $4 billion under management across multiple funds, the firm invests in technology-focused startups across various stages, from seed to growth. Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones, targeting sectors such as software, consumer, financial technology, healthcare, and infrastructure. Additionally, Redpoint Ventures China, founded in 2016, focuses on early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors in Mainland China.

Kwesi Acquay

Principal

Alex Bard

Managing Director

Urvashi Barooah

Principal

Logan Bartlett

Managing Director

Erica Brescia

Managing Director

Travis Bryant

Operating Partner

Patrick Chase

Principal

Satish Dharmaraj

Managing Director

Jacob Effron

Vice President, Principal

Tim Haley

Co-Founder and Partner, Managing Director

Annie Kadavy

Partner

Adele Li

Investor

Kyle Liu

Vice President

Louis Lv

Managing Director

Chris Moore

Partner

Lars Pedersen

Partner and CFO

Grace Ping

Partner

Vivek Ramaswami

Vice President

Ryan Sarver

Partner

Jordan Segall

Partner

Sai Senthilkumar

Principal

Nancy Shi

Partner and CFO

John Walecka

Partner and Founder

Yuan Wenda

Founding and Managing Partner

Geoffrey Yang

Co-Founder and Partner

David Yuan

Partner and Head of Redpoint China

Han Zhang

Partner

Past deals in Search Engine

Tenor

Series B in 2017
Tenor operates as a leading mobile GIF search engine, facilitating over 12 billion searches monthly from approximately 300 million users. The platform enhances digital communication by enabling users to find GIFs that effectively convey their emotions and personalities. Tenor's technology supports a wide array of partners, including major messaging applications such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google Gboard, allowing seamless GIF sharing across these platforms. In addition to its search capabilities, Tenor has pioneered branded GIF programs, collaborating with companies like Dunkin Donuts, Nissan, AT&T, and Wendy’s to engage meaningfully with mobile audiences. This focus on connecting users with the right GIF at the right moment underscores Tenor's position as a key player in the digital conversation space.

Laserlike

Venture Round in 2016
Laserlike is a computer software company that develops a web-scale content search, discovery, and personalization platform. The company's mission is to provide high-quality information and diverse perspectives on various topics sourced from across the web. Utilizing advanced machine learning techniques, Laserlike's platform enables users to receive timely and relevant updates on subjects they care about, incorporating a range of content types including news, web articles, videos, and local information. This approach aims to enhance the user's experience by delivering personalized content tailored to individual interests.

Tenor

Series A in 2014
Tenor operates as a leading mobile GIF search engine, facilitating over 12 billion searches monthly from approximately 300 million users. The platform enhances digital communication by enabling users to find GIFs that effectively convey their emotions and personalities. Tenor's technology supports a wide array of partners, including major messaging applications such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google Gboard, allowing seamless GIF sharing across these platforms. In addition to its search capabilities, Tenor has pioneered branded GIF programs, collaborating with companies like Dunkin Donuts, Nissan, AT&T, and Wendy’s to engage meaningfully with mobile audiences. This focus on connecting users with the right GIF at the right moment underscores Tenor's position as a key player in the digital conversation space.

Vurb

Series A in 2014
Vurb is a mobile application designed to enhance user experiences by providing personalized search and messaging capabilities. Founded in 2011 by Bobby Lo and based in San Francisco, Vurb connects users to relevant information and tools from various apps and services in a single platform. The application allows users to find, plan, and engage in activities by integrating community recommendations, rich content, and useful services. With a focus on tailoring suggestions based on individual preferences, Vurb aims to create a more connected mobile world. The company gained recognition by winning TechCrunch Disrupt NY in 2014 and has attracted financial backing from notable investors in Silicon Valley.

Tenor

Seed Round in 2013
Tenor operates as a leading mobile GIF search engine, facilitating over 12 billion searches monthly from approximately 300 million users. The platform enhances digital communication by enabling users to find GIFs that effectively convey their emotions and personalities. Tenor's technology supports a wide array of partners, including major messaging applications such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google Gboard, allowing seamless GIF sharing across these platforms. In addition to its search capabilities, Tenor has pioneered branded GIF programs, collaborating with companies like Dunkin Donuts, Nissan, AT&T, and Wendy’s to engage meaningfully with mobile audiences. This focus on connecting users with the right GIF at the right moment underscores Tenor's position as a key player in the digital conversation space.

Srch2

Venture Round in 2013
SRCH2 Inc. is a provider of enterprise search software tailored for data-driven applications. Founded in 2013 by Stanford PhDs and former Google employees, the company focuses on addressing the search needs of modern applications across various platforms, including mobile and e-commerce. Its flagship product offers an in-memory search engine that leverages advanced indexing techniques and algorithms, delivering high performance and efficiency at scale. SRCH2's software supports RESTful API functionalities, allowing users to perform search queries, and manage documents effectively. The company offers various deployment options, including licensed, platform, and hosted configurations, which can function as standalone solutions or as enhancements to existing search infrastructures. Headquartered in Irvine, California, SRCH2 aims to streamline information retrieval through its innovative search technology.

TheFind

Series C in 2007
TheFind is a shopping search engine that utilizes patented e-commerce technology to enhance the consumer shopping experience by making it easy, efficient, and enjoyable. It searches various online stores across multiple categories, including apparel, electronics, home furnishings, and more, to help users quickly find the best deals and locate hard-to-find items. The platform offers a personalized experience by learning users' preferences through their activity, likes, and purchases, subsequently showcasing products from their favorite stores and brands. Additionally, TheFind organizes shopping activities, allowing users to track their purchases, shipments, and returns seamlessly. Based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, TheFind is accessible via a mobile app for iOS and Android devices, as well as through its website.

TheFind

Series B in 2006
TheFind is a shopping search engine that utilizes patented e-commerce technology to enhance the consumer shopping experience by making it easy, efficient, and enjoyable. It searches various online stores across multiple categories, including apparel, electronics, home furnishings, and more, to help users quickly find the best deals and locate hard-to-find items. The platform offers a personalized experience by learning users' preferences through their activity, likes, and purchases, subsequently showcasing products from their favorite stores and brands. Additionally, TheFind organizes shopping activities, allowing users to track their purchases, shipments, and returns seamlessly. Based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, TheFind is accessible via a mobile app for iOS and Android devices, as well as through its website.

FatLens

Series A in 2005
FatLens is the first e-commerce search engine built with patent-pending technology specifically to enhance your online shopping experience. Innovative FatLens technology instantaneously brings you the web's most comprehensive, relevant and unbiased product search results, and the first-ever integrated search with instant messaging for real-time, collaborative online shopping with your friends and family. FatLens provides you the web's most comprehensive e-commerce search results by indexing relevant data from the most number of e-commerce sites and exhaustively categorizing all of the for-sale items at each crawled site. FatLens brings you the most relevant results to your product search through our patent-pending TRIP™ scoring system that accurately matches the indexed and categorized items for sale to your query. Built-in category intelligence easily handles nicknames, misspellings, synonyms and also "fuzzy" matches for providing the greatest relevancy. FatLens also uniquely enhances your e-commerce experience by integrating search with popular instant messaging products (Yahoo! Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger). FatLens enables you to interact in real-time with your friends and family to quickly complete joint or group buying, get timely expert advice or validation, and of course enjoy sharing the online shopping experience. You can search for products you want to buy, select specific products of interest to you to share with your friends and family. By invoking the IM/Collaboration capability (just click the share using Yahoo! Messenger button or AIM button) you can invite your IM buddies to view, share, and refine your product preferences online while also chatting about your choices. The company was founded by an experienced team of entrepreneurs and technologists who have co-founded and worked at successful Internet and search engine technology companies in Silicon Valley. FatLens started operations in 2003 and received its first venture financing from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.

TheFind

Series A in 2005
TheFind is a shopping search engine that utilizes patented e-commerce technology to enhance the consumer shopping experience by making it easy, efficient, and enjoyable. It searches various online stores across multiple categories, including apparel, electronics, home furnishings, and more, to help users quickly find the best deals and locate hard-to-find items. The platform offers a personalized experience by learning users' preferences through their activity, likes, and purchases, subsequently showcasing products from their favorite stores and brands. Additionally, TheFind organizes shopping activities, allowing users to track their purchases, shipments, and returns seamlessly. Based in San Francisco and Silicon Valley, TheFind is accessible via a mobile app for iOS and Android devices, as well as through its website.
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