Investing Profile

Randy Glein

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Founder & Partner, DFJ Growth
dfj.com/people/randy-glein/Menlo Park, California
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Networks Randy is a member of
University of Southern California Network
138 CONNECTIONS
University of Florida Network
43 CONNECTIONS
University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management Network
11 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
DFJ Partner
Investment Range
$2.0M - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$6.0M
Investments On Record
31

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Randy Glein's Investments On Record (20)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Positron
Series BFeb 2026$230M
Series AJul 2025$52M
$280M
Co-investors: Gavin Baker (Atreides Management)
Hidden Level
Series CFeb 2025$65M
$82M
Co-investors: Buddy Arnheim (Orthogonal Ventures), Oded Hermoni (J-Angels)
Alchemy
Series CFeb 2022$200M
Series COct 2021$250M
$580M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Anand Iyer (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Ben Orthlieb (Linkedin), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Navin Chaddha (The Alchemy Fund), James Hong (Center for Rural Health Leadership), Shervin Pishevar (ACME Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Najam Kidwai (Frontier Ventures), Balaji Srinivasan, John Hennessy, Jeff Seibert, Chris Kelly, Jay Z, Jared Leto
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Series BDec 2021$1.8B
$2.9B
Co-investors: Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Carmichael Roberts (Breakthrough Energy Ventures), Chris Sacca (Lowercarbon Capital), Mario Costantini (NEVA SGR), Matias Mosse (Starlight Ventures), Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale Capital), Steve Jurvetson (Baruch Future Ventures), John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins), Maryanna Saenko (Baruch Future Ventures), Hisham Elhaddad (HOF Capital), Sam Englebardt (Galaxy Digital), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors)
Cohesity
Secondary MarketMar 2021$150M
Series EApr 2020$250M
$810M
Co-investors: Bill Coughran (Sequoia Capital), Gaurav Garg (Wing Venture Capital), Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), Karim Faris (Google Ventures), Eric Wolford (Accel), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Kevin Ding (DHVC (Digital Horizon Capital)), Stuart Peterson (Artis Ventures (AV)), Deep Nishar (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Rob Salvagno (Cisco Investments), Matthew Cowan (Next47)
Neocis
Series DOct 2020$72M
$140M
Co-investors: Robert Mittendorff (B Capital Group), Jocelyn Kinsey (DFJ), Ajay Royan (Mithril Capital Management)
Yellowbrick Data
Series CJun 2019$81M
$250M
Co-investors: Alexander Lim (IVP), Steve Harrick (IVP), Sandy Miller (IVP), Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures), Sam Fort (DFJ), William (Bill) Bryant (Threshold Ventures), TJ Rylander (Next47)
Yellowbrick Learning
Series CJun 2019
Series BOct 2018
Co-investors: Steve Harrick (IVP), Sam Fort (DFJ), Donna Harris (1776), TJ Rylander (Next47), Kasper Sage (BMW i Ventures)

Randy Glein's Experience

Investor Alchemy2021 - Present
Corporate Vice President Tribune Company / Tribune Ventures2000 - 2002
Principal CID Equity Partners1999 - 2000

Randy Glein's Education

University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management MBA
University of Southern California MSEE Electrical Engineering
University of Florida BSEE Electrical Engineering