Ray Lane
Founder & Managing Partner @ GreatPoint Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Ray Lane is a Partner Emeritus at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Since joining the firm in 2000, he has focused on helping entrepreneurs with technological and market insight, organizational development, team building, selling and managing growth. Ray sponsored a number of investments for KPCB in enterprise technology and alternative energy.These investments include GreatPoint Energy (coal-to-gas conversion), Aquion (energy storage), Kenandy (cloud based MRP systems), Alert Enterprise (security convergence solutions), Vertica Systems (data warehousing solutions), Virsa Systems (financial systems compliance), Luca Technologies (biologically enhanced gas recovery from fossilized hydrocarbons), Fisker Automotive (extended range electric vehicle), Ausra (solar thermal concentrator) and Xsigo Systems (virtual I/O switch for datacenters). Ray also serves on the board of Hewlett-Packard and was its former Chairman. He presently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Carnegie Mellon University.Before joining KPCB, Ray was president and chief operating officer of Oracle Corp., one of the world’s largest software companies and a leading enterprise software and services company. During his eight-year tenure, Oracle exhibited phenomenal revenue growth from less than $1 billion in 1992 to more than $10 billion. Ray led Oracle’s business expansion beyond its core database technology into enterprise applications and professional services. Earlier in his career, Ray was a senior partner with Booz Allen Hamilton, where he pioneered and led the Information Systems Group, a worldwide consulting practice targeted at helping senior management achieve better results from information technology. He also served on Booz Allen Hamilton’s board of directors and executive management committee. Ray’s early career also included serving as division vice president with Electronic Data Systems Corp. and spending 10 years with IBM in various product-management, sales and marketing positions.Ray received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and an honorary Ph.D. in science from West Virginia University. He was elected to the Academy of Distinguished Graduates of WVU, served as a director of the WVU Foundation Board, and presently serves on the university’s Board of Governors. WVU honored Ray by naming the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Ray also serves on the board of trustees of Carnegie Mellon University currently as its Chairman. He has been an active campaigner and planner for Carnegie Mellon’s establishment in 2002 of a Silicon Valley campus. He helped create and fund Carnegie Mellon’s Computational Biology Department, one of six permanent degree-granting departments in the School of Computer Science. He serves as vice chairman of Special Olympics International and has served on the international board of Special Olympics for 15 years. He also holds an honorary Ph.D. from Golden Gate University. Ray was recently honored by TechAmerica as the 2011 recipient of the David Packard Medal of Achievement Award.
- Total investments:
- 47
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 36%
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Industries Ray Lane invests in
Stages Ray Lane invests in
Countries Ray Lane invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 12 (26%)
- SaaS 6 (13%)
- Enterprise Software 6 (13%)
- Analytics 5 (11%)
- Artificial Intelligence 4 (9%)
Stage
- Series A 16 (34%)
- Series B 9 (19%)
- Seed 6 (13%)
- Funding Round 4 (9%)
- Series C 3 (6%)
Country
- United States 24 (51%)
- Israel 1 (2%)
Investments
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SignalRank
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SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio. | $26.5M / Series A / Jun 09, 2026 | |
Seraphic Security
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The browser has become the main productivity tool for employees due to driving trends like working remotely, BYOD, and web-based SaaS applications. This has turned the browser into the largest surface of attack for businesses, both by employee policy infringement and attacks by hackers. Legacy solutions fail to protect the browser, compromiseuser experience, and are difficult to deploy and operate. This is where Seraphic's unique value benefits customers all over the world. Seraphic enables secure browsing for your employees and contractors working from their corporate or personal devices, so they can enjoy full productivity without risk.Seraphic is a unique browser security solution that protects enterprise assets and provides your security team with advanced governance and policy enforcement. It's based on innovative (patent pending) technology - providing robust protection against all browser attacks, including full protection against zero-day and unpatched n-day attacks. Seraphic is easy to deploy, has no impact on performance, leaves user experience untouched, and is fully compatible across all browsers and devices (Including PC, Mac, Linux & Mobile).With Seraphic, you are a few minutes away from closing the most significant blind spot in your organization's cyber defense. | $29M / Series A / Jan 30, 2025 | |
Tembo
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Dev-first, fully-extensible managed Postgres. | $14M / Series A / Jul 03, 2024 | |
Strangeworks
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Strangeworks makes the power of quantum computing accessible to everyone all in one place. Learn more at http://quantumcomputing.com | $24M / Series A / Mar 21, 2023 | |
RapidDeploy
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Founded in 2016, and based in Austin, TX, RapidDeploy is the leading cloud-native platform for public safety. We provide Next Generation 911 solutions that deliver intelligent information throughout the emergency response journey, empowering agencies and first responders to drive better outcomes in mission-critical situations. With a curatedpartner network, our platform combines mobile signals, critical datasets, and call information into a single operating system, improving emergency response with location accuracy, situational awareness, modern communications, and actionable insights. Our products improve outcomes and ultimately save lives. | $34M / Series C / Jan 25, 2023 | |
Hypori
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Hypori is a veteran-owned small business that transforms secure access to data at the edge. Their zero-trust SaaS technology, Hypori Halo, empowers businesses and government agencies to protect data within their enterprise by preventing data at rest or in transit outside the enterprise. Hypori Halo delivers remote access to cloud-powered enterpriseapps by adding a separate, secure, 100% private, virtual workspace to any endpoint device. Hypori Halo is the only virtual workspace that frees customers from liability and security risks with 100% separation of data and preserves privacy for the end-user. Delivering truly secure BYOD with 100% user privacy. | $23M / Series B / Jan 17, 2023 | |
bit.io
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We're building a zero-config, scalable cloud database with the social and community features of GitHub. | $7.5M / Seed / Oct 26, 2022 | |
Coalesce Automation
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Coalesce Automation develops data management platforms that automate data activities. The company's platform combines the speed of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), the flexibility of code, and the effectiveness of data transformation automation, allowing businesses to obtain effective data management and analytics capabilities. | $26M / Series A / Sep 28, 2022 | |
Current Foods
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Kuleana creates plant-based alternatives for people's seafood favorites, using plants and biotechnology without the environmental and ethical consequences. | $18M / Seed / Jun 23, 2022 | |
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Coalesce Automation
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Coalesce Automation develops data management platforms that automate data activities. The company's platform combines the speed of an intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), the flexibility of code, and the effectiveness of data transformation automation, allowing businesses to obtain effective data management and analytics capabilities. | $5.9M / Seed / Jan 20, 2022 | |
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Co-Investors
About GreatPoint Ventures
GreatPoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing between $250k and $20m into Seed, A, and B rounds. The firm was founded in San Francisco, California in 2015.
GreatPoint Ventures Contacts
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Aaron Mandell
Founder
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Andrew Perlman
Founder & Managing Partner
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Ashley Sommerschield
Chief Operating Officer
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Ashok Krishnamurthi
Managing Partner
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Earnest Sweat
Associate Partner
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Ray Lane invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 47 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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