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Redwood Trust

Venture debt

Parent of1 affiliated firmRWT Horizons

18 people tracked

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Investment thesis

Redwood Trust participates across several areas of U.S. housing credit, holding a diversified portfolio of residential, business-purpose, and multifamily mortgage investments. The firm emphasizes meticulous underwriting and disciplined credit risk management, favoring safe, well-structured loans that borrowers can reliably afford. Its culture centers on values such as passion, integrity, change, growth, relationships, and results, and it aims to become the nation's most innovative participant in housing credit while promoting high-quality, accessible housing for both renters and owners.

Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.

Instruments
Debt
Founded
1994
Tracked investments
6

Team · 18 people

from the firm's website

Founder mafia

2 people who came through Redwood Trust went on to found or lead other companies.

What they invest in

from 5 of 6 portfolio companies

AI & Machine Learning ×4Developer Tools ×4Enterprise Software ×4Cybersecurity ×2Data & Infrastructure ×2SaaS ×2Cloud Computing ×1

HQs:United States×4

Investments · 6 tracked

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By year:2025 · 22023 · 32022 · 16 dated

Appsmithappsmith.comin𝕏Series B · Jun 2022 · $41M

Appsmith provides an open-source platform that enables developers to build internal applications like admin panels and dashboards more efficiently.

Developer ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaS

AbhishekArpit Mohan(Founder)inNikhil Nandagopal(Founder)inAbhishek Nayak(Founder)

Co-investorsAccelCanaan PartnersLightspeed India PartnersOSS CapitalBessemer Venture PartnersInsight Partners

Aurvaaurva.ioin𝕏Seed · Sep 2025 · $2M

Aurva provides runtime security monitoring that links data access to real identities and context, focused on detecting when legitimate access by AI agents becomes inappropriate.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSunnyvale, US

Krishna Bagadia(Founder)inAkash Mandal(Founder)inApurv Garg(Founder)inApurv Garg Krishna Bagadia(Founder)

Co-investorsDeVCNexus Venture Partners

Daytonadaytona.ioin𝕏Pre-Seed · Nov 2023 · $2M

Daytona provides a secure, elastic runtime for executing AI-generated code and running agent workflows, offering isolated, programmatically controlled development infrastructure.

AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsNew York, US

Ivan Burazin(Founder)inVedran Jukić(Founder)inGoran Draganić(Co-founder & Chief Architect)inGoran Draganic(Founder)

BoardKevin Zhang(Director)inMatt Turck(Director)

Co-investors500 Emerging EuropeDarkmode Venturese2vcFirestreak VenturesFirstMark CapitalHumans Of The Internet+4 more

Firecrawlfirecrawl.devin𝕏Series A · Aug 2025 · $15M

Firecrawl provides an API to search, scrape, and interact with web content at scale, converting live internet data into clean markdown and structured data optimized for large language models, agents, and AI-native applications.

AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Caleb Peffer(CEO)inEric Ciarla(Founder)inNicolas Silberstein Camara(Founder)inNicolas Camara(Founder)Garrett FrohmanMark Mercer(Chief of Staff)

Co-investorsJude GomilaY CombinatorCrush VenturesFundament SyndicateGeneral AdvanceGoodwin Family Management+4 more

Pyntpynt.ioin𝕏Seed · Sep 2023 · $6M

Pynt is an API security testing platform that automatically discovers internal, external, and third-party APIs and identifies vulnerabilities through context-aware testing and synthetic traffic generation.

AI & Machine LearningCybersecurityDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSaaSWilmington, US

Co-investorsHoneystone VenturesJoule Ventures

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

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Frequently asked questions

How many investments has Redwood Trust made?
Redwood Trust has 6 tracked investments, including 2 dated in the last 24 months.
What sectors does Redwood Trust focus on?
Redwood Trust focuses on Crypto & Web3, Fintech, PropTech.

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