Redpoint Ventures

Redpoint Ventures, founded in 1999 and based in Menlo Park, California, is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in startups across various stages, including seed, early, and growth phases. The firm partners with innovative founders to create new markets and transform existing ones. Redpoint's investment interests span multiple sectors, including applications, blockchain, consumer technology, financial technology, healthcare, and infrastructure. Additionally, Redpoint Ventures China emphasizes early-stage investments in the technology, media, and telecommunications sectors, particularly in consumer Internet and technology-driven enterprise IT services. Overall, Redpoint Ventures aims to support visionary entrepreneurs in realizing their business potential.

Kwesi Acquay

Principal

Eliza Adams

Associate

Medha Agarwal

Partner

Alex Bard

Managing Director

Urvashi Barooah

Principal

Logan Bartlett

Managing Director

Erica Brescia

Managing Director

Jeff Brody

Partner

Travis Bryant

Operating Partner

Satish Dharmaraj

Managing Director

Tom Dyal

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

Chris Moore

Partner

Lars Pedersen

Partner and CFO

Vivek Ramaswami

Vice President

Scott Raney

Partner / Venture Capitalist

Ryan Sarver

Venture Partner

Jordan Segall

Partner

Sai Senthilkumar

Principal

Yuan Wenda

Founding and Managing Partner

Geoff Yang

Co-Founder and Partner, Founding Partner and Managing Director

Geoffrey Yang

Co-Founder and Partner

David Yuan

Partner and Head of Redpoint China

Han Zhang

Partner

Past deals in Storage Services

MotherDuck

Series B in 2023
MotherDuck specializes in data infrastructure and analytics, providing a serverless platform designed to handle both small and large datasets. By integrating the performance of DuckDB with cloud capabilities, the company offers a user-friendly solution that facilitates collaborative data analysis. Its platform employs an embedded database to support hybrid execution, allowing users to analyze data locally and remotely. This enables businesses to effectively prototype and optimize their data strategies, enhancing their ability to derive insights and maximize profits in a streamlined environment.

DragonflyDB

Seed Round in 2023
DragonflyDB is the fastest memory store in the universe.

MotherDuck

Series A in 2022
MotherDuck specializes in data infrastructure and analytics, providing a serverless platform designed to handle both small and large datasets. By integrating the performance of DuckDB with cloud capabilities, the company offers a user-friendly solution that facilitates collaborative data analysis. Its platform employs an embedded database to support hybrid execution, allowing users to analyze data locally and remotely. This enables businesses to effectively prototype and optimize their data strategies, enhancing their ability to derive insights and maximize profits in a streamlined environment.

Flexe

Series D in 2022
Flexe, Inc. operates a cloud-based marketplace that connects organizations seeking additional warehousing and fulfillment services with those that have surplus capacity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, the company specializes in omnichannel logistics solutions, including eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, and same-day delivery. Flexe's platform addresses the challenges of inventory overflow and fulfillment needs by creating an open logistics network, allowing clients such as retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies to optimize their distribution capabilities. By integrating technology and flexible economic models, Flexe enables its customers to enhance their operational efficiency and respond swiftly to market demands.

Flexe

Series C in 2020
Flexe, Inc. operates a cloud-based marketplace that connects organizations seeking additional warehousing and fulfillment services with those that have surplus capacity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, the company specializes in omnichannel logistics solutions, including eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, and same-day delivery. Flexe's platform addresses the challenges of inventory overflow and fulfillment needs by creating an open logistics network, allowing clients such as retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies to optimize their distribution capabilities. By integrating technology and flexible economic models, Flexe enables its customers to enhance their operational efficiency and respond swiftly to market demands.

Flexe

Series B in 2019
Flexe, Inc. operates a cloud-based marketplace that connects organizations seeking additional warehousing and fulfillment services with those that have surplus capacity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, the company specializes in omnichannel logistics solutions, including eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, and same-day delivery. Flexe's platform addresses the challenges of inventory overflow and fulfillment needs by creating an open logistics network, allowing clients such as retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies to optimize their distribution capabilities. By integrating technology and flexible economic models, Flexe enables its customers to enhance their operational efficiency and respond swiftly to market demands.

XSKY Data Technology

Series B in 2017
XSKY Beijing Data Technology Corporation Limited is a Chinese company that specializes in software-defined infrastructure products and services aimed at delivering innovative storage solutions for enterprises. By integrating internet carrier operations and mainstream open-source technologies, XSKY offers scalable storage solutions that facilitate cost-effective horizontal expansion for data centers. The company is a significant contributor to the open-source storage system Ceph, ranking among the top three globally and leading in China for source code contributions. Additionally, XSKY is the exclusive storage solution partner of Red Hat China and collaborates with major IT companies like Intel, Samsung, Dell, and Mellanox. Its products are utilized by early adopters in various sectors, including financial services, transportation, telecommunications, and energy, highlighting its commitment to enhancing data management and infrastructure innovation.

Flexe

Series A in 2016
Flexe, Inc. operates a cloud-based marketplace that connects organizations seeking additional warehousing and fulfillment services with those that have surplus capacity. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Seattle, the company specializes in omnichannel logistics solutions, including eCommerce fulfillment, retail distribution, and same-day delivery. Flexe's platform addresses the challenges of inventory overflow and fulfillment needs by creating an open logistics network, allowing clients such as retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, and logistics companies to optimize their distribution capabilities. By integrating technology and flexible economic models, Flexe enables its customers to enhance their operational efficiency and respond swiftly to market demands.

XSKY Data Technology

Series A in 2016
XSKY Beijing Data Technology Corporation Limited is a Chinese company that specializes in software-defined infrastructure products and services aimed at delivering innovative storage solutions for enterprises. By integrating internet carrier operations and mainstream open-source technologies, XSKY offers scalable storage solutions that facilitate cost-effective horizontal expansion for data centers. The company is a significant contributor to the open-source storage system Ceph, ranking among the top three globally and leading in China for source code contributions. Additionally, XSKY is the exclusive storage solution partner of Red Hat China and collaborates with major IT companies like Intel, Samsung, Dell, and Mellanox. Its products are utilized by early adopters in various sectors, including financial services, transportation, telecommunications, and energy, highlighting its commitment to enhancing data management and infrastructure innovation.

Hedvig

Series A in 2013
Hedvig, formerly Quexascale is re-architecting software-defined storage. Built by software engineers of the world's largest and most successful distributed systems, Hedvig delivers modern storage for any enterprise compute environment running at any scale. The Hedvig platform is the only software-defined storage solution with true distributed systems DNA, unconstrained by traditional thinking and existing architectures that can't keep pace with scale-out applications and the velocity of change in today's business climate. What makes Hedvig unique? Put simply: Hedvig gets better and smarter as it scales. Hedvig defies conventional wisdom, transforming commodity hardware into the most advanced storage solution available today. Hedvig accelerates data to value by collapsing disparate storage systems into a single platform, creating a virtualized storage pool that provisions storage with a few clicks, scales to petabytes, and runs seamlessly in both private and public clouds.

Hedvig

Seed Round in 2012
Hedvig, formerly Quexascale is re-architecting software-defined storage. Built by software engineers of the world's largest and most successful distributed systems, Hedvig delivers modern storage for any enterprise compute environment running at any scale. The Hedvig platform is the only software-defined storage solution with true distributed systems DNA, unconstrained by traditional thinking and existing architectures that can't keep pace with scale-out applications and the velocity of change in today's business climate. What makes Hedvig unique? Put simply: Hedvig gets better and smarter as it scales. Hedvig defies conventional wisdom, transforming commodity hardware into the most advanced storage solution available today. Hedvig accelerates data to value by collapsing disparate storage systems into a single platform, creating a virtualized storage pool that provisions storage with a few clicks, scales to petabytes, and runs seamlessly in both private and public clouds.

StorSimple

Series C in 2011
StorSimple is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in hybrid cloud storage solutions designed for enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines. The company's innovative storage appliance integrates cloud functionality with existing enterprise infrastructures, allowing organizations to benefit from cloud capabilities without migrating their applications entirely to the cloud. By optimizing storage performance and simplifying data protection, StorSimple's solutions can reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage systems. The company is supported by funding from Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures.

StorSimple

Series B in 2010
StorSimple is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in hybrid cloud storage solutions designed for enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines. The company's innovative storage appliance integrates cloud functionality with existing enterprise infrastructures, allowing organizations to benefit from cloud capabilities without migrating their applications entirely to the cloud. By optimizing storage performance and simplifying data protection, StorSimple's solutions can reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage systems. The company is supported by funding from Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures.

StorSimple

Series A in 2009
StorSimple is a Silicon Valley-based company that specializes in hybrid cloud storage solutions designed for enterprise applications such as SharePoint, Exchange, Windows User Files, and Virtual Machines. The company's innovative storage appliance integrates cloud functionality with existing enterprise infrastructures, allowing organizations to benefit from cloud capabilities without migrating their applications entirely to the cloud. By optimizing storage performance and simplifying data protection, StorSimple's solutions can reduce storage costs by up to 90 percent compared to traditional enterprise storage systems. The company is supported by funding from Redpoint Ventures and Index Ventures.

Kazeon

Series B in 2005
Kazeon Systems, Inc. develops and provides electronic discovery solutions in the United States. It offers eDiscovery/litigation support, information security and privacy, governance, and risk and compliance solutions, as well as support and educational services for remote devices over corporate IP networks, VPN networks, and wireless and wired networks. The company also provides Information Center, which helps customers turn their data center into an information center; and Information Server, a software that automates eDiscovery functions from identification, collection through processing, preservation, analysis and review for corporations, service providers, and law firms. In addition, it offers a suite of storage optimization solutions, including data consolidation, migration and archival, file reporting, and backup search. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Mountain View, California. As of September 30, 2009, Kazeon Systems, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

Candera,Inc.

Venture Round in 2004
A Milipitas, Calif.-based provider of storage solutions for IT infrastructures

Confluence Networks

Series C in 2003
A Milpitas, Calif.-based data storage management network, came out of stealth mode

Topspin Communications

Series C in 2003
Topspin Communications, founded in 2000 and based in Mountain View, California, specializes in server networking equipment and virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers. The company provides server fabric switches that create programmable infrastructure for various applications, including grid and utility computing, clustered enterprise applications, and server virtualization. These switches enable efficient connectivity among servers, facilitating enhanced network and storage access within a server grid. Additionally, Topspin's virtualization fabric allows for the dynamic allocation of CPU, I/O, and storage resources, enabling organizations to adapt quickly to evolving business demands while streamlining the integration and deployment of new data center resources.

Topspin Communications

Series B in 2002
Topspin Communications, founded in 2000 and based in Mountain View, California, specializes in server networking equipment and virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers. The company provides server fabric switches that create programmable infrastructure for various applications, including grid and utility computing, clustered enterprise applications, and server virtualization. These switches enable efficient connectivity among servers, facilitating enhanced network and storage access within a server grid. Additionally, Topspin's virtualization fabric allows for the dynamic allocation of CPU, I/O, and storage resources, enabling organizations to adapt quickly to evolving business demands while streamlining the integration and deployment of new data center resources.

Confluence Networks

Series B in 2002
A Milpitas, Calif.-based data storage management network, came out of stealth mode

Internet Generation Storage

Venture Round in 2000
Internet Generation Storage
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