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Randy Glein | |
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| Born | Randy Glein May 19, 1965 Michigan, U.S. |
| Education | UCLA Anderson School of Management, University of Southern California, University of Florida |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman and venture capitalist |
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 of top tech investors six times over the past decade. In 2024 he was #14 on the Forbes Midas List.[2]
Education and early career
editGlein earned an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering with high honors from the University of Florida.[1] Glein was awarded the University of Florida Gator Engineering Innovation Award in 2013 and is a co-founder of the Gator Innovation Fellows program.[3]
Early in his career, Glein was an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served as CFO of FeedBurner, as an executive at DirecTV during its early growth and startup, and as a satellite communications engineer at Hughes Electronics, Space and Communication Division.[4]
Notable investments
editGlein’s portfolio of past and current investments incudes: Alchemy,[5] Anaplan, [6] Box,[7] Cohesity,[8] Coinbase,[9] Commonwealth Fusion Systems,[10] DataStax,[11] Mapbox,[12] Neocis,[13] Neuralink,[14] OpenAI,[15] Planet, [16] Ring (acquired by Amazon),[17] SpaceX,[7] Splice, [18] Sumo Logic, [19] Tesla, [5] The Boring Company,[20] Twitter, [21] Unity, [22] Vannevar Labs, [23] Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), [24] and Yodle (acquired by Web.com). [25]
References
edit- ^ a b DFJ Growth. "People: Randy Glein".
- ^ "Profile: Randy Glein". Forbes.
- ^ "Randy Glein receives Gator Engineering Innovation Award". University of Florida, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. January 8, 2024.
- ^ Greg Hardesty. "We Venture He Knows Something About Investing". Viterbi Magazine. USC Viterbi School of Engineering.
- ^ a b Alexandra Sternlicht (January 17, 2022). "Blockchain Developer Alchemy Raises $250 Million Series C At $3.5 Billion Valuation". Forbes.
- ^ "DFJ Growth Leads $100M Series D for Anaplan". Pitchbook. May 14, 2014.
- ^ a b Ingrid Lunden (May 5, 2014). "Box, Foursquare, SpaceX Backer DFJ Growth Raises $470M For Later-Stage Investments". TechCrunch.
- ^ "Cohesity Announces $250 Million in Series E Funding". Cohesity. April 9, 2020.
- ^ "Coinbase Raises $75M from DFJ Growth, USAA, NYSE, and More". Coinbase. January 20, 2025.
- ^ "Commonwealth Fusion Systems Raises $1.8 Billion in Funding to Commercialize Fusion Energy". Commonwealth Fusion Systems. December 1, 2021.
- ^ Marketwired (July 23, 2013). "DataStax Raises $45 Million in Funding to Fuel International Expansion, Channel Growth and Product Development". Yahoo Finance.
- ^ Ingrid Lunden (June 17, 2015). "Mapbox Raises $52.6M Led By DFJ To Be The "Map Layer" For All Apps". TechCrunch.
- ^ Conor Hale (October 8, 2020). "Neocis raises $72M from DFJ, Fred Moll, others for its dental surgery robot". Fierce Biotech.
- ^ "Series C Funding Round Announcement". Neuralink. July 29, 2021.
- ^ Mary Ann Azevedo (August 1, 2023). "As spend management space heats up, Brex and Rho turn to AI startups to help power new products". TechCrunch.
- ^ DFJ Growth (May 23, 2017). "Will Marshall, Planet — Founder Story". Medium.
- ^ "Ring Secures $109 Million Led by DFJ Growth and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners". BusinessWire. January 25, 2017.
- ^ "Splice Raises $35M in Series B Funding". FinSMEs. December 15, 2017.
- ^ Blair Hanley Frank (June 27, 2017). "Data analytics startup Sumo Logic raises $75 million as it eyes IPO". VentureBeat.
- ^ "The Boring Company Series C Funding Round Announcement". The Boring Company. April 20, 2022.
- ^ "Who is financing Elon Musk's $44 billion deal to buy Twitter?". Reuters. October 7, 2022.
- ^ Connie Loizos (April 20, 2017). "DFJ Growth closes its third fund with $535 million". TechCrunch.
- ^ DFJ Growth (January 18, 2023). "Vannevar: Decrypting Defense". Medium.
- ^ Leena Rao (February 29, 2012). "Enterprise Social Networking Platform Yammer Raises $85M From DFJ Growth, Khosla, And Others". TechCrunch.
- ^ Leena Rao (February 1, 2010). "Local Advertising Booster Yodle Raises Another $10 Million". TechCrunch.