Satish Dharmaraj

Satish Dharmaraj
Alma mater	Harvard Business School
Occupation	General Partner of Redpoint Ventures; former CEO of Zimbra
Website	redpoint.com

Satish Dharmaraj is an American entrepreneur, speaker, angel investor and venture capitalist, who currently serves as a general partner with Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Redpoint Ventures, Satish Dharmaraj founded Zimbra, which he then sold to Yahoo! for $350 million, in 2007.

Satish Dharmaraj has the bachelor of science and master of science degrees in Computer Science and "an executive management degree from the Harvard Business School." Dharmaraj "managed the messaging business at Openwave Systems" (in addition to holding positions at Sun Microsystems and OneBox) and consequently, in 2003, became the founder and chief executive officer of Zimbra, which he sold to Yahoo for $350 million USD in 2007. According to Dharmaraj, his success at Zimbra was due to pioneering a web browser that focused on email. While at Yahoo, Dharmaraj "helped Yahoo make its email system open to third party applications." After stepping down from Yahoo in 2009, Dharmaraj became a partner for Redpoint Ventures, where he currently serves. Dharmaraj was Redpoint's first entrepreneur partner and PandoDaily reported that "Redpoint’s experience with Dharmaraj went well, spurring the firm’s current addition of Ryan Sarver from Twitter."

Satish Dharmaraj currently has investments in Infer,Sonos,Coin,Gogobot,Peel,Pure Storage,MapR, and Big Switch.

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