# Robertson Stephens Partners

> Robertson Stephens Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco backing Software and Internet. See 15 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 15
- Last investment: May 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Robertson Stephens Partners is a VC fund in San Francisco focused on Software and Internet. Founded in 1978, Robertson Stephens was a San Francisco-based boutique investment bank that focused primarily on technology companies. It was among the most active investment banks in the technology sector at the height of the internet boom.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $12M–$18M |
| Series B | $38M–$80M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 27% |
| Internet | 3 | 20% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 20% |
| FinTech | 2 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 13% |

37 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 4 | 27% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 27% |
| Series A | 3 | 20% |
| Series C | 3 | 20% |
| Series H | 1 | 7% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 13 | 87% |
| South Africa | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SunBasket | Sun Basket is a healthy cooking service that delivers organic ingredients and customized recipes weekly to customers' doors. It allows customers to choose meals each week or opt into a menu plan, including Paleo, Gluten-Free, and Vegetarian options.Sun Basket makes it easy to cook delicious meals, eat clean, and feel great. The company grewfrom sales by 1300% in 2016 and went from 0 to 1200 employees from 2014 to 2017. The service sources organic and sustainable ingredients from over 135 farms, ranches, and fishermen, featuring organic & non-GMO produce, antibiotic and hormone-free meats, and seafood that follows the Monterey Bay Aquarium sustainability standards. | $11.6M | Series A | May 19, 2016 |  |
| PowerDsine | Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense & security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include high-performance, radiation-hardened and highly reliable analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and ASICs; power management products;timing and voice processing devices; RF solutions; discrete components; security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has approximately 3,000 employees globally. | $30M | Series H | Feb 01, 2002 |  |
| Lara Networks | Lara Technology is a fabless semiconductor manufacturer that designs, develops and markets memory-intensive ASICs for the networking and communications industries. | $40M | Series B | Oct 23, 2000 |  |
| IPG Photonics | IPG Photonics develops and manufactures fiber lasers and amplifiers for diverse applications in numerous markets. Its diverse lines of low, medium and high-power lasers and amplifiers are used in materials processing, communications, entertainment, medical, biotechnology, scientific, and advanced applications. Its products are displacingtraditional technologies in many current applications and enabling new applications for lasers.The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Oxford, Massachusetts. | $80M | Series B | Sep 21, 2000 |  |
| Everypath | Everypath is the leading provider of mobile task automation software to global 1000 companies. | $60M | Series C | Aug 09, 2000 |  |
| Tenor Networks | Tenor Networks, Inc. develops and manufactures optical switching systems. Its products include TN250G, which is a Core MPLS Switch and TEMPo that is an element management platform. | $93M | Series C | Aug 01, 2000 |  |
| BOPS | BOPS is engaged in the development and licensing of broadband digital signal processors, intellectual property cores, and compiler and software tool products. These products are used in system-on-chip-based applications in the internet, multimedia, and wireless communications markets.BOPS was founded in 1997 and is based in Mountain View,California, United States. | $40M |  | Jul 13, 2000 |  |
| PayPal | PayPal has remained at the forefront of the digital payment revolution for more than 20 years. By leveraging technology to make financial services and commerce more convenient, affordable, and secure, the PayPal platform is empowering more than 375 million consumers and merchants in more than 200 market to join and thrive in the global economy. | $100M | Series C | Apr 05, 2000 |  |
| CCC Network Systems | CCC Network Systems is the leading supplier of state-of-the-art Network Operation Centers and Internet/Corporate Data Centers. They provide a complete end-to-end solution - from design consultancy, through to installation and implementation, together with full project management services - from design conception to completion.CCC has thetechnology, services and experience to meet all your Network Operation and Data Center needs. That's why so many of the world's premier companies rely on us to meet their light-up and uptime targets, and lower their cost of ownership. | $16.5M |  | Mar 14, 2000 |  |
| Yipes | Yipes is a data communications services provider. It was acquired in 2007 by Indian telecommunications service provider Reliance Communications.Yipes delivers scalable business-to-business and business-to-Internet IP networking services. Their regional IP network Yipes MAN seamlessly extends your company's LAN to other business locationsor to business partner locations. Their Yipes NET Internet service brings the Web to your LAN at breakaway speeds. Yipes NET customers can also take advantage of Yipes' industry-leading security offering Yipes WALL managed firewall service, to safeguard their private information from the dangers of the public Internet. Yipes NAN replaces private line and frame relay services with the simplicity of Ethernet. Yipes WEB offers a full portfolio of Internet management services. Yipes TOUGH enables customers to extend the redundancy on their customer premise to the Yipes Network. | $77M | Series B | Mar 08, 2000 |  |

10 of 15 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Dain Rauscher Wessels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dain-rauscher-wessels) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
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## FAQ

### What does Robertson Stephens Partners invest in?

Robertson Stephens Partners invests primarily in Software, Internet and Manufacturing startups, most often at Series B and Funding Round stage. Most of the 15 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Robertson Stephens Partners's check size?

Robertson Stephens Partners typically joins rounds of $12M–$18M at Series A and $38M–$80M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Robertson Stephens Partners participates in.

### When did Robertson Stephens Partners last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Robertson Stephens Partners closed in May 2016. Shizune tracks 15 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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