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Satish Dharmaraj

Investor

Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures

Saratoga, California

Writes $100K – $50M checks · typically $25M

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About

Satish Dharmaraj, an immigrant who arrived with $5k debt, founded Zimbra (sold to Yahoo for $350M), wrote market theses and backed Acompli, acquired by Microsoft for $200M.

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCybersecurityData & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaS

Experience

  1. Redpoint VenturesManaging Directorcurrent2009 — present
  2. ZimbraCEO2003 — 2009
  3. Redpoint VenturesEIR2003 — 2004
  4. Openwave SystemsVice President, Messaging Products, Openwave2000 — 2003
  5. onebox.comDirector, Engineering and Network Operations1998 — 2000
  6. JavasoftProject lead, Servlets and JSP1996 — 1998
  7. TransarcSoftware Architect1991 — 1995
  8. Transarc CorporationStaff Engineer1991 — 1995

Education

  1. Clemson UniversityComputer Science

Same school

Shared employers

Deals · 8

Barrel Reserve Technologies, Inc.Board seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Oct 2025 · $2.2M raise

Finch Legal Inc.Board seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Jun 2025 · $23.7M raise

Omni Analytics, Inc.Board seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Mar 2025 · $68.8M raise

TimescaleBoard seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Feb 2022 · $109.5M raise

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Solo.io, Inc.Board seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Oct 2021 · $135M raise

Datagrid Systems, Inc.Board seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Nov 2020 · $5.5M raise

LaserlikeBoard seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Dec 2016 · $21M raise

InferBoard seat

via Redpoint Ventures · filed Jan 2015 · $28.5M raise

Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.

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