Redpoint Ventures
Since 1999, Redpoint Ventures has partnered with visionary founders to create new markets and redefine existing ones. The firm invests early in startups building category-defining companies, from AI and infrastructure to security. Redpoint has backed hundreds of companies, including Netflix, Snowflake, Stripe, Ramp, Twilio, Ramp, and Hims, and today backs the next generation of AI leaders like OpenAI, Legora, Modal, Abridge and Physical Intelligence. Redpoint is based in San Francisco and has offices in New York City and Woodside. For more information visit: http://www.redpoint.com/www.redpoint.com
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Sep 10, 2026
speaker_2HOST
They previously came out of stealth in March with a $45 million seed round led by Greylock Partners.
AmitHOST
This new round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, and Redpoint Ventures.
AmitHOST
Ravi Matre from Lightspeed is joining the board of directors as part of the deal.
speaker_2HOST
Scilake was founded earlier this year by Zouk, who served as chief executive alongside Wilson Su and Ehud Shamir, who was one of the founders of Sentinel-1.
Eric SiuHOST
We'll see how it plays out, but I want to call something out, th- this piece out.
Eric SiuHOST
So, so this is AI product- productivity as it relates to writing, so content generation, for example, okay? So Tomasz Tunguz, the, the VC that is still at Redpoint Ventures or 3VC now.
Eric SiuHOST
Okay, so he wrote a post, "AI productivity doesn't mean what I thought it means." So if you look at this, this chart over here, Neil, what this is explaining is the posts that he's written.
Eric SiuHOST
He has a blog.
Fouad El NaggarGUEST
Uh, but after building that business and scaling it in my early twenties to almost fifty million dollars of revenue, I said, "Oh, you know what? This VC thing looks pretty cool, and I bet I can add more value than these guys that are former investment bankers 'cause I've actually lived through it." And so I said, "All right.
Fouad El NaggarGUEST
Let me go figure out how I weasel my way into this business." And that's how I ended up at Redpoint Ventures.
Fouad El NaggarGUEST
I'm sure, uh, I don't know if your audience is, is familiar with the venture capital industry, but you know, at the time, Redpoint was one of the great firms out there.
Fouad El NaggarGUEST
They were the first investors in Netflix and Myspace, Snowflake.
Matt WilkinsonHOST
Fractal, that we've spoken about before on this podcast, it's a British chip startup founded in 2022 by Walter Goodwin, is in talks to raise about $600 million at a $6.5 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg.
Matt WilkinsonHOST
Redpoint Ventures and Lightspeed are reported to be co-leading the round with Founders Fund and Thrive Capital expected to take part.
Matt WilkinsonHOST
That valuation is more than six times the roughly $1 billion valuation that it had at its 220 million fundraising round in May and follows an agreement to supply about 250 million pounds of chips to the US lab anthropic.
Matt WilkinsonHOST
The round has not closed yet and the chips are not expected to be available until 2027.