Redpoint Ventures

Summary

Redpoint is the famous VC, which was founded in 1999. The main office of represented VC is situated in the Menlo Park. The company was established in North America in United States.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 4-5 partakers. Despite the Redpoint, startups are often financed by True Ventures, Slow Ventures, Mission Ventures. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Tiger Global Management, Slow Ventures, Sherpa Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upfront Ventures, True Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank.

Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Stripe, Nubank, Snowflake Computing We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Mobile. Moreover, a startup needs to be at the age of 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. When startup sums 5+ of the founder, the probability for it to get the investment is little. For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States.

The current fund was established by Brad Jones, Geoff Yang, Jeff Brody, John Walecka, Timothy Haley, Tom Dyal. The overall number of key employees were 15.

Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 7 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. This Redpoint works on 9 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments comparing to the other organizations. Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Redpoint the average startup value is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2014. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 investment rounds annually.