Draft:Randy Glein
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Randy Glein (born May 19, 1965) is an American businessman and venture capitalist.[1] He is a co-founder and partner of DFJ Growth. Forbes has named Glein to its annual Midas List[2] five times over the past decade, and the NY Times / CB Insights[3] has named him to their list of the world’s top venture capital investors several times.
Education and career[edit]
Glein earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and a BSEE with high honors from the University of Florida. Randy was awarded the University of Florida Gator Engineering Innovation Award in 2013 and is a co-founder of the Gator Innovation Fellows program.[4] He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and university forums.
Glein is a longtime venture investor with Tribune Ventures, and Hughes New Ventures and a co-founder of DFJ Growth, where he participated in the founding investments for DIRECTV, Motient, and XM Radio. He has been an entrepreneur and operating executive prior to DFJ Growth, serving as CFO of FeedBurner, a business development executive at DIRECTV during its startup and early growth, and a systems engineer at Hughes Space & Communications and Martin Marietta.[5]
Investments[edit]
Glein’s portfolio of past and current investments incudes: Alchemy[6], Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN)[7], Anduril[8], Box (NYSE: BOX)[9], Cohesity[10], Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN)[11], Commonwealth Fusion Systems[12], DataStax[13], Mapbox[14], Neocis[15], Neuralink[16], OpenAI[17], Performics (acquired by Google), Planet (NYSE: PL)[18], Ring (acquired by Amazon)[19], SpaceX[20], Splice[21], Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO)[22], Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA)[23], The Boring Company[24], Twitter (NYSE: TWTR)[25], Unity (NYSE: U)[26], Vannevar Labs[27], X[28], Yammer (acquired by Microsoft)[29], and Yodle (acquired by Web.com).[30]
References[edit]
- ^ "People - DFJ Growth Venture Capital". DFJ Growth. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Glein, Randy. "Randy Glein". Forbes. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "The Top 100 Venture Capitalists". CBInsights.com. CB Insights. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Randy Glein receives Gator Engineering Innovation Award". University of Florida School of Engineering. University of Florida. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "We Venture He Knows Something About Investing". Viterbi Magazin. USC Viterbi School of Engineering. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Alchemy raises $80M at a $505M valuation to be the 'AWS for blockchain'". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. 28 April 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "DFJ Growth Leads $100M Series D for Anaplan". Pitchbook.com. Pitchbook. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Anduril — The Defense that Never Rests". Medium.com. Medium. 2 December 2022. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (5 May 2014). "Box, Foursquare, SpaceX Backer DFJ Growth Raises $470M For Later-Stage Investments". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Cohesity Announces $250 Million in Series E Funding". Cohesity.com. Cohesity. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More". Coinbase.com. Coinbase. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Energizing the Future with Commonwealth Fusion Systems". Medium.com. Medium. December 2021. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "DataStax Stacks $45M in Funding". Pitchbook.com. Pitchbook. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Mapbox Raises $52.6M Led By DFJ To Be The "Map Layer" For All Apps". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Hale, Conor. "Neocis raises $72M from DFJ, Fred Moll, others for its dental surgery robot". FierceBiotech.com. Questex. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Series C Funding Round Announcement". Neuralink.com. Neuralink. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "As spend management space heats up, Brex and Rho turn to AI startups to help power new products". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. 2 August 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Will Marshall, Planet — Founder Story". Medium.com. Medium. 20 July 2019. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Ring Secures $109 Million Led by DFJ Growth and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners". Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Lunden, Ingrid (5 May 2014). "Box, Foursquare, SpaceX Backer DFJ Growth Raises $470M For Later-Stage Investments". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Splice Raises $35M in Series B Funding". Finsmes.com. FinSMEs. 15 December 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Sumo Logic — Taming the Tsunami of Machine Data". Medium.com. Medium. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ Primack, Dan. "DFJ Growth Raising $500 Million for New Fund". Fortune.com. Fortune. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "THE BORING COMPANY SERIES C FUNDING ROUND ANNOUNCEMENT". BoringCompany.com. Boring Company. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Portfolio - DFJ Growth Venture Capital". DFJGrowth.com. DFJ Growth. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Portfolio - DFJ Growth Venture Capital". DFJGrowth.com. DFJ Growth. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Vannevar: Decrypting Defense". Medium.com. Medium. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Who is financing Elon Musk's $44 billion deal to buy Twitter?". Reuters.com. Reuters. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Raises $85M From DFJ Growth, Khosla, And Others". TechCrunch.com. TechCrunch. 29 February 2012. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
- ^ "DFJ Growth Raising $500 Million for New Fund". Fortune.com. Fortune. Retrieved 30 October 2023.