Redwood Venture Partners
VC Fund
Los Altos, United States
Redwood Venture Partners is a VC fund in Los Altos focused on Software and Cyber Security. Redwood Venture Partners focuses on startups and early and middle stage emerging market investments. Their passion, experience, and network of relationships have enabled them to fund and grown companies that changes the landscape of the technology industry. The portfolio businesses of the company are Sigma Systems Group, Optovation, MESH Networks,CYRAS, StratumOne, and co-design automation. The investing of the company touches all elements of networking, wireless, semiconductors, security, homeland security, software, and communications. They investigate companies under the criteria of business model or value proposition, market size and potential competition, technology advantages, and teams of the companies for the investing purposes. It provides domain and operations expertise in target markets, vital introductions and help in building its users’ management teams, enable strategic alliances and joint ventures, and provides introductions to seasoned legal and financial advisors.Redwood Venture Partners is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1997 by Raj Parekh.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 13%
Last updated:
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Industries Redwood Venture Partners invests in
Stages Redwood Venture Partners invests in
Countries Redwood Venture Partners invests in
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
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Marc Fenigstein
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Raj Parekh
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (63%)
- Cyber Security 2 (25%)
- Music 1 (13%)
- Mobile 1 (13%)
- Internet 1 (13%)
Stage
- Funding Round 3 (38%)
- Series A 2 (25%)
- Series B 1 (13%)
- Series C 1 (13%)
- Convertible Note 1 (13%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
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Marc Fenigstein
Associate
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Associate | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Raj Parekh
Chairman, Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Chairman, Co-Founder and Managing Director | Total investments: 1 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Dubset Media Holdings, Inc.
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Dubset Media Holdings is a a technology solutions company that offers an innovative music marketplace for DJs, artists, labels, publishers, music services, and distributors. Through cutting edge technology, rights management database, and easy to use dashboards, Dubset is creating new mix & remix distribution and monetization opportunitiesbuilt on transparency, ownership control, and simplicity. | $4M / Series A / Feb 27, 2017 | |
Alef Edge
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Alef is the first global edge API platform company that empowers enterprises to create, customize, and control their own private mobile network - in 60 minutes. We simplify the complexity of 5G and edge computing through a suite of APIs and tools that allow for more control and security with less overhead, while operating at a fraction of the costof legacy mobile network providers.Leading systems integrators, distributors, and technology partners, and developers trust us to help power the edge economy and enable companies and communities to connect with a purpose. | $4.5M / Convertible Note / Feb 01, 2015 | |
NextNine
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NextNine is a leader in Operational Technology (OT) security management software for industrial and critical infrastructure, markets that are vulnerable to cyber security attacks and are underserved by conventional enterprise IT solutions. Using NextNine you can have centralized OT security management for your entire SCADA/ICS environment.Distributed critical infrastructure plants and facilities with proprietary ICS/SCADA networks and devices, paired with the need for external vendors to provide remote maintenance and support, create an ideal target profile for hackers and terrorist attacks. Traditional IT security management solutions were designed to manage standard computing environments and cannot handle the proprietary processes, networks and devices of the ICS/SCADA world.In contrast, NextNine has over 10 years of leadership in OT security, and has purpose-built its product to deal with these unique challenges. NextNine’s solution is an industrial strength software platform delivering robust, customizable and field proven OT security management.Top tier critical infrastructure companies along with 5 of the 7 largest industrial vendors have standardized on NextNine. Today, the company has 6000 installations globally in fields such as oil, gas, mining, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, defense and critical infrastructure.NextNine has been recognized by the White House for its leadership in the efforts to improve critical infrastructure cyber security.NextNine has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, assuring NextNine's employees operate a comprehensive security program and manage information security risks effectively. NextNine's certificate is issued by the Standards Institution of Israel.The company was founded in 1998, is privately held and headquartered in New York. | $10M / Series C / Sep 27, 2006 | |
NIKSUN
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NIKSUN® is the leader in making the unknown known. NIKSUN delivers the best next-generation network monitoring solutions to secure critical infrastructure, optimize service delivery, and reduce compliance risks. Based on the world’s most scalable and modular technology – Alpine– designed specifically for large-scale network monitoring, NIKSUN isrevolutionizing the network monitoring industry with its flagship products, NetDetector®, NetVCR®, and NetOmni™. With more than 1,000 enterprise customers in over 30 countries, NIKSUN is the only network-wide monitoring company that provides organizations with the power to instantly Know the Unknown®. | Jan 23, 2001 | |
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NextNine
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NextNine is a leader in Operational Technology (OT) security management software for industrial and critical infrastructure, markets that are vulnerable to cyber security attacks and are underserved by conventional enterprise IT solutions. Using NextNine you can have centralized OT security management for your entire SCADA/ICS environment.Distributed critical infrastructure plants and facilities with proprietary ICS/SCADA networks and devices, paired with the need for external vendors to provide remote maintenance and support, create an ideal target profile for hackers and terrorist attacks. Traditional IT security management solutions were designed to manage standard computing environments and cannot handle the proprietary processes, networks and devices of the ICS/SCADA world.In contrast, NextNine has over 10 years of leadership in OT security, and has purpose-built its product to deal with these unique challenges. NextNine’s solution is an industrial strength software platform delivering robust, customizable and field proven OT security management.Top tier critical infrastructure companies along with 5 of the 7 largest industrial vendors have standardized on NextNine. Today, the company has 6000 installations globally in fields such as oil, gas, mining, chemicals, energy, manufacturing, defense and critical infrastructure.NextNine has been recognized by the White House for its leadership in the efforts to improve critical infrastructure cyber security.NextNine has received ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, assuring NextNine's employees operate a comprehensive security program and manage information security risks effectively. NextNine's certificate is issued by the Standards Institution of Israel.The company was founded in 1998, is privately held and headquartered in New York. | $20M / Series B / Jan 22, 2001 | |
Taalee
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Taalee's Semantic Engine™ is the basic underlying platform on which all of Taalee products are based. Taalee currently offers two products and services that benefit from this superior approach— Semantic Search™ and Semantic Asset Management™ for digital media assets. | $2.4M / Jul 18, 2000 | |
Savvion
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Savvion offers BPM business software solutions and services. More than 300 of the world's companies, including 24 of the Fortune 100, choose Savvion to operate more productively and profitably. | $25M / Series A / Apr 28, 2000 | |
Magma Design Automation
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Magma Design Automation, Inc. (Magma), provides electronic design automation (EDA) software products and related services. Its software enables chip designers to reduce the time it takes to design and produce integrated circuits used in the communications, computing, consumer electronics, networking and semiconductor industries. Its flagshipproducts consist of a digital integrated solution for the chip development cycle, from initial design through physical implementation. Magma's flagship Talus family of products, its Tekton static timing analyzer and QCP extractor and, its Quartz family of sign-off and verification tools combine into one integrated chip design and verification flow, from what has been separate logic design, physical design, and analysis and sign-off processes. Its Titan platform for custom integrated chip design provides an integrated chip-finishing solution for mixed-signal designs. | $31M / Mar 14, 2000 |
Co-Investors
Ofer Hi-Tech
2 deals together
Yozma Group
2 deals together
AAC Capital Partners
1 deal together
Ascend Technology Ventures
1 deal together
Beachhead Venture Capital
1 deal together
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What does Redwood Venture Partners invest in?
Redwood Venture Partners invests primarily in Software, Cyber Security and Music startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 8 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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