Redpoint Ventures

Redpoint Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 and based in Woodside, California, with additional offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China. The firm specializes in early-stage and growth capital investments, primarily in technology, media, and alternative energy sectors. Redpoint Ventures focuses on a broad range of industries, including consumer internet, enterprise software, fintech, e-commerce, and digital media. The firm typically invests between $1 million to $50 million, with a preference for being a lead or co-lead investor in its portfolio companies. With a strong track record, Redpoint has backed over 465 companies, achieving 140 IPOs and mergers and acquisitions. The firm manages around $4 billion across multiple funds and seeks to partner with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. Redpoint also operates Redpoint China Ventures, which focuses on early investments in the technology and media sectors within 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

Partner

Meera Clark

Principal

Satish Dharmaraj

Managing Director

Tom Dyal

Managing Director

Jacob Effron

Vice President, Principal

Timothy Haley

Co-Founder and Partner

Adele Li

Investor

Kyle Liu

Vice President

Louis Lv

Managing Director

Lars Pedersen

Partner and CFO

Grace Ping

Partner

Scott Raney

Partner / Venture Capitalist

Jordan Segall

Principal

Sai Senthilkumar

Partner

Nancy Shi

Partner and CFO

John Walecka

Co-Founder and Partner

Yuan Wenda

Managing Partner

Geoffrey Y. Yang

Co-Founder and Partner

David Yuan

Founder and Partner, Redpoint China

Han Zhang

Partner

Past deals in Search Engine

ShadowBot

Seed Round in 2021
ShadowBot develops a software robot that performs repetitive online tasks. The software robot simulates various operations of humans and performs operations such as mouse clicks, keyboard input, and reading information on any applications, enabling enterprises to improve efficiency and productivity.

ShadowBot

Series A in 2021
ShadowBot develops a software robot that performs repetitive online tasks. The software robot simulates various operations of humans and performs operations such as mouse clicks, keyboard input, and reading information on any applications, enabling enterprises to improve efficiency and productivity.

Sourcegraph

Series B in 2020
Sourcegraph, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in universal code search solutions, enhancing code discovery, intelligence, and change management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sourcegraph enables developers to efficiently navigate and understand extensive codebases across various repositories, languages, and file formats. Its platform allows for seamless code exploration in web browsers, facilitating improved developer productivity through contextual insights that aid in code reviews and onboarding processes. Additionally, Sourcegraph automates large-scale code changes, helping teams manage complex codebases more effectively. The company's services cater to a diverse clientele, including startups, enterprises, developers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders, all aimed at minimizing the challenges associated with code management. Sourcegraph is supported by prominent investors, highlighting its significant market presence and potential for growth.

Sourcegraph

Series A in 2017
Sourcegraph, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in universal code search solutions, enhancing code discovery, intelligence, and change management. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Sourcegraph enables developers to efficiently navigate and understand extensive codebases across various repositories, languages, and file formats. Its platform allows for seamless code exploration in web browsers, facilitating improved developer productivity through contextual insights that aid in code reviews and onboarding processes. Additionally, Sourcegraph automates large-scale code changes, helping teams manage complex codebases more effectively. The company's services cater to a diverse clientele, including startups, enterprises, developers, DevOps teams, and engineering leaders, all aimed at minimizing the challenges associated with code management. Sourcegraph is supported by prominent investors, highlighting its significant market presence and potential for growth.

Tenor

Series B in 2017
Tenor is a leading mobile GIF search engine, facilitating over 12 billion searches and serving 300 million monthly users. It enhances digital communication by helping individuals find GIFs that express their emotions and personalities effectively. Tenor has developed the Tenor Emotional Graph, which underpins its popular GIF Keyboard app and supports GIF sharing across various platforms, such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google Gboard. In 2017, Tenor introduced the first branded GIF program, attracting notable partnerships with brands like Dunkin Donuts and Nissan, allowing companies to engage authentically with mobile audiences. This platform not only provides users with a seamless experience in locating the ideal GIF but also enables brands to connect with consumers in a meaningful way through animated content.

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 is a leading mobile GIF search engine, facilitating over 12 billion searches and serving 300 million monthly users. It enhances digital communication by helping individuals find GIFs that express their emotions and personalities effectively. Tenor has developed the Tenor Emotional Graph, which underpins its popular GIF Keyboard app and supports GIF sharing across various platforms, such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google Gboard. In 2017, Tenor introduced the first branded GIF program, attracting notable partnerships with brands like Dunkin Donuts and Nissan, allowing companies to engage authentically with mobile audiences. This platform not only provides users with a seamless experience in locating the ideal GIF but also enables brands to connect with consumers in a meaningful way through animated content.

Tenor

Seed Round in 2013
Tenor is a leading mobile GIF search engine, facilitating over 12 billion searches and serving 300 million monthly users. It enhances digital communication by helping individuals find GIFs that express their emotions and personalities effectively. Tenor has developed the Tenor Emotional Graph, which underpins its popular GIF Keyboard app and supports GIF sharing across various platforms, such as iMessage, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, and Google Gboard. In 2017, Tenor introduced the first branded GIF program, attracting notable partnerships with brands like Dunkin Donuts and Nissan, allowing companies to engage authentically with mobile audiences. This platform not only provides users with a seamless experience in locating the ideal GIF but also enables brands to connect with consumers in a meaningful way through animated content.

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.

Gravity

Series B in 2012
Gravity is a company that focuses on enhancing user experience through advanced personalization technology. It operates a platform that utilizes a proprietary Interest Graph to semantically analyze user behavior, interests, and preferences over time. By processing social updates and trending topics, Gravity automatically identifies individual interests and provides tailored content recommendations, thereby optimizing engagement for users on websites and applications powered by its technology. In addition to its core personalization services, Gravity is committed to providing access to basic services for marginalized communities in Mexico, reflecting its broader social responsibility goals.

Oodle

Venture Round in 2010
Oodle is an online classifieds platform that facilitates buying and selling through a streamlined process. It aggregates more than 500,000 new listings daily from over 80,000 different websites, allowing buyers to view a wide range of products in one convenient location. For sellers, Oodle offers the ability to post listings across multiple sites simultaneously, enhancing visibility and reach. The platform operates as a social marketplace, providing users with both web and mobile applications to engage in transactions effectively.

Clicker

Series B in 2010
Clicker is the ultimate guide to Internet television. As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed amongst billions of random videos. Clicker culls all broadcast programming, and TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily find, save, share and even contribute content for any show or episode online.

Clicker

Series A in 2009
Clicker is the ultimate guide to Internet television. As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed amongst billions of random videos. Clicker culls all broadcast programming, and TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily find, save, share and even contribute content for any show or episode online.

Gravity

Series A in 2009
Gravity is a company that focuses on enhancing user experience through advanced personalization technology. It operates a platform that utilizes a proprietary Interest Graph to semantically analyze user behavior, interests, and preferences over time. By processing social updates and trending topics, Gravity automatically identifies individual interests and provides tailored content recommendations, thereby optimizing engagement for users on websites and applications powered by its technology. In addition to its core personalization services, Gravity is committed to providing access to basic services for marginalized communities in Mexico, reflecting its broader social responsibility goals.

Kazeon

Series F in 2009
Kazeon Systems, Inc. is a provider of electronic discovery solutions based in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2003, the company offers a range of services including litigation support, information security, governance, and risk and compliance solutions. It also provides support and educational services for remote devices across various network types. Kazeon's Information Center assists clients in transforming their data centers into information centers, while its Information Server software automates the eDiscovery process, covering functions from identification and collection to analysis and review. Additionally, the company offers storage optimization solutions, including data consolidation, migration, archival, and backup search. As of 2009, Kazeon operates as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

Oodle

Series C in 2009
Oodle is an online classifieds platform that facilitates buying and selling through a streamlined process. It aggregates more than 500,000 new listings daily from over 80,000 different websites, allowing buyers to view a wide range of products in one convenient location. For sellers, Oodle offers the ability to post listings across multiple sites simultaneously, enhancing visibility and reach. The platform operates as a social marketplace, providing users with both web and mobile applications to engage in transactions effectively.

Answers.com

Post in 2008
Answers’ mission is to connect businesses, organizations and consumers with the right answers. The Answers Platform comprises a suite of cloud-based solutions that enable companies to engage their customers throughout the entire customer lifecycle, helping both brands and consumers alike make better-informed decisions about products and services. The key components of the platform - content publisher, customer analytics and advertising solutions via the top-20 comScore site Answers.com - enable brands to engage their customers in dialogue at key moments of their decision-making journey, across multiple channels and devices.

WebVisible

Series B in 2008
WebVisible, based in Southern California, is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company specializing in local online advertising. The company focuses on assisting small businesses worldwide in leveraging the Internet for advertising and customer acquisition. Through direct sales and partnerships with entities in the Yellow Pages, newspapers, and online marketing sectors, WebVisible provides innovative online advertising solutions. Its advertising products are powered by the Geneva software platform, recognized as the 2008 Internet Product of the Year by the American Electronics Association. This platform enables small business customers to purchase advertising space across various media, ensuring they receive effective, locally targeted advertising that maximizes their investment.

TheFind

Series C in 2007
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

Oodle

Series B in 2007
Oodle is an online classifieds platform that facilitates buying and selling through a streamlined process. It aggregates more than 500,000 new listings daily from over 80,000 different websites, allowing buyers to view a wide range of products in one convenient location. For sellers, Oodle offers the ability to post listings across multiple sites simultaneously, enhancing visibility and reach. The platform operates as a social marketplace, providing users with both web and mobile applications to engage in transactions effectively.

Zing Systems

Series C in 2007
In a world with ZING, you can listen, bookmark, and collect songs from live digital streams. Mix playlists from your CD and MP3 libraries with fresh content. Discover new entertainment and share playlists with friends. And get updates on what's happening with your favorite artists. ZING brings you the joy of music discovery, simplifies how you collect and manage your playlists, and gives you the freedom to enjoy it all on the go. Imagine all this seamlessly integrated into one device that's always on and ready to play. ZING is your way to stay tuned.

TheFind

Series B in 2006
TheFind applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

Efficient Frontier

Series C in 2006
Efficient Frontier is a prominent online performance and social media marketing platform that specializes in managing search marketing, display, and social media campaigns for advertisers and agencies worldwide. The company oversees over $1 billion in annual marketing expenditures for its global clientele. Established in 2002, Efficient Frontier was a pioneer in applying modern portfolio theory to search engine marketing, integrating predictive modeling algorithms and bidding technology with strategic services. The acquisition of Context Optional in 2011 enhanced its social media capabilities, providing a comprehensive solution for managing Facebook fan acquisition, retention, and engagement. The company collaborates with leading advertisers and agencies to optimize campaign performance in complex markets. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Efficient Frontier has additional offices in major cities across the United States and Europe, as well as technology partnerships in Asia-Pacific regions. It operates as a privately held entity, supported by funding from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.

Oodle

Series A in 2006
Oodle is an online classifieds platform that facilitates buying and selling through a streamlined process. It aggregates more than 500,000 new listings daily from over 80,000 different websites, allowing buyers to view a wide range of products in one convenient location. For sellers, Oodle offers the ability to post listings across multiple sites simultaneously, enhancing visibility and reach. The platform operates as a social marketplace, providing users with both web and mobile applications to engage in transactions effectively.

Glimpse.com

Series A in 2006
Glimpse.com is a fashionable online platform that enables users to search for a wide variety of clothing, shoes, cosmetics, and accessories. Primarily targeting women, the site also features some men's products, allowing for diverse shopping options. Users can refine their searches by price, color, or sale items, and stay updated on popular trends. Following its acquisition by TheFind.com, Glimpse.com continues to operate as an independent site while benefiting from enhanced search capabilities powered by TheFind's technology. This integration allows for broader access to online boutiques, brand stores, and specialty fashion retailers. Additionally, the site offers the MyFinds feature, which lets users save product items as thumbnails for easy comparison and sharing with friends. Glimpse.com showcases a selection of higher-end retailers, including brands like Juicy Couture, Hollister, Burberry, and Ann Taylor, catering to fashion enthusiasts seeking trendy and stylish options.

WebVisible

Series A in 2005
WebVisible, based in Southern California, is a Software as a Service (SaaS) company specializing in local online advertising. The company focuses on assisting small businesses worldwide in leveraging the Internet for advertising and customer acquisition. Through direct sales and partnerships with entities in the Yellow Pages, newspapers, and online marketing sectors, WebVisible provides innovative online advertising solutions. Its advertising products are powered by the Geneva software platform, recognized as the 2008 Internet Product of the Year by the American Electronics Association. This platform enables small business customers to purchase advertising space across various media, ensuring they receive effective, locally targeted advertising that maximizes their investment.

Kazeon

Series B in 2005
Kazeon Systems, Inc. is a provider of electronic discovery solutions based in Mountain View, California. Founded in 2003, the company offers a range of services including litigation support, information security, governance, and risk and compliance solutions. It also provides support and educational services for remote devices across various network types. Kazeon's Information Center assists clients in transforming their data centers into information centers, while its Information Server software automates the eDiscovery process, covering functions from identification and collection to analysis and review. Additionally, the company offers storage optimization solutions, including data consolidation, migration, archival, and backup search. As of 2009, Kazeon operates as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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 applies patented ecommerce technology to make the consumer shopping experience easy, efficient and fun. TheFind's powerful shopping search works across the Web looking through every store to quickly find you the best deal and even that hard-to-find item. Uniquely personalized just for you, TheFind continuously learns your taste and style from your activity, likes and purchases, showing you more from your favorite stores and brands. Finally, TheFind organizes all your shopping activity to quickly see what you've been looking for and what you’ve bought, and automatically tracks your shipments, returns and receipts. Experience TheFind by downloading our app on your iPad, iPhone or Android device, or visit us on the Web at www.thefind.com. TheFind is venture funded by Bain Capital Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures and is a San Francisco and Silicon Valley-based company.

Efficient Frontier

Series B in 2004
Efficient Frontier is a prominent online performance and social media marketing platform that specializes in managing search marketing, display, and social media campaigns for advertisers and agencies worldwide. The company oversees over $1 billion in annual marketing expenditures for its global clientele. Established in 2002, Efficient Frontier was a pioneer in applying modern portfolio theory to search engine marketing, integrating predictive modeling algorithms and bidding technology with strategic services. The acquisition of Context Optional in 2011 enhanced its social media capabilities, providing a comprehensive solution for managing Facebook fan acquisition, retention, and engagement. The company collaborates with leading advertisers and agencies to optimize campaign performance in complex markets. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Efficient Frontier has additional offices in major cities across the United States and Europe, as well as technology partnerships in Asia-Pacific regions. It operates as a privately held entity, supported by funding from Redpoint Ventures and Cambrian Ventures.
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