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History The firm was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Menlo Park. The firm manages over $750 million of capital across five funds.

The firm's partners include Ryan Floyd, Tae Hea Nahm, Sanjay Subhedar, Alex Mendez, Paul Willard and Arun Penmesta. Storm Ventures has been involved with successful investments including Airespace, Marketo, Mobile Iron and Sandforce.[1]

Its partners have been involved in 136 IPOs and acquisitions. IPOs include Twilio, Pure Storage, 2u, Just Eat, Zendesk, HomeAway, Qihoo, Responsys, Fortinet and Calix. Acquisitions include Acompli, Caspida, Efficient Frontier, Heroku, RelateIQ, BlueKai, Posterous, LifeSize, Refresh, Right Media and Zimbra. In 1999, Redpoint raised a $600 million venture fund, at the time the largest first-time fund for a new firm.[2] In 2000 and 2006 Redpoint raised two additional funds, Redpoint II and Redpoint III totaling $1,150 million. In 2007, Redpoint raised a $250 million fund to focus on investing in early growth technology companies such as Answers.com, Internet Brands, NextG Networks, and Tantalus. In February 2010 Redpoint raised $400 million for its fourth fund Redpoint IV, to focus on early stage companies involved in Internet and social media, mobile computing, cloud computing and clean technology.[3] Redpoint raised a $400 million fifth fund, Redpoint V, in January 2013, to focus on early-stage investments in new platforms, next generation media, big data infrastructure and applications, and enterprise, cloud, and mobile.[4] In April 2015 Redpoint raised a $400 million sixth fund to focus on early stage investments in consumer and enterprise.[5]

Current Investments Redpoint's current portfolio includes 9flats,[6] AppZen,[7] APUS, Beepi,[8] BitGo, Button, CollectiveHealth, DraftKings, Duo, Flexe, Gogobot, Infer, Jaunt, Justworks, Kabam, Looker, Luxe, Nextdoor, Snowflake, Stripe, Tenor, HomeAway, PureStorage, Quantifind, Sonos, Thredup, Twilio, Vurb and Zuora.

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