Satish Dharmaraj

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Satish Dharmaraj is an American entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He currently serves as a general partner at Redpoint Ventures and was named No. 5 on Forbes’ Midas List in 2024, recognizing top venture capital investors.

Education
- Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Computer Science
- Harvard Business School, executive management degree
- Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India

Career
- Early work: Openwave Systems, Sun Microsystems, and OneBox
- 2003: Co-founded Zimbra, a popular email platform
- 2007: Zimbra sold to Yahoo! for about $350 million
- 2009: Left Yahoo and joined Redpoint Ventures as a partner (Redpoint’s first entrepreneur partner)

Investments and notable exits
- Backed Snowflake, Infer, Sonos, Coin, Gogobot, Peel, Pure Storage, MapR, and Big Switch
- Exits and acquisitions connected to his investments include:
- Acompli acquired by Microsoft for around $200 million (2014)
- Pulse acquired by LinkedIn for about $90 million
- Posterous acquired by Twitter (2012)
- StorSimple acquired by Microsoft (2012)
- Cloud.com acquired by Citrix (2011)
- Gogobot acquired by CTrip (2017)
- Zendesk’s IPO, with Redpoint’s funding support (2012)

Personal note
- Satish Dharmaraj is of Indian Tamil descent and is an immigrant to the United States.