• Ask a VC: Welcome Back to the Hot Seat, Satish Dharmaraj

    Friday, January 14th, 2011

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    We had a last minute cancellation on Ask a VC this week, so filling in is Satish Dharmaraj who was our second ever guest on the show. For those who don’t remember, Dharmaraj is a relatively new partner at Redpoint Venture Partners, after selling Zimbra to Yahoo for $350 million and Onebox, which he sold for $850 million. Not bad.

    Dharmaraj focuses on a lot of Redpoint’s consumer Web portfolio, but he has a history with enterprise too. I’ll be interested to hear which he’s most excited about in 2011. Because he’s a last minute fill-in, we have a quick turn around so get your questions in now to AskaVC(at)techcrunch(dot)com.

    Satish Dharmaraj is a Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He is the former CEO and founder of Zimbra, which was sold to Yahoo! for $350M in September 2007. Prior to founding Zimbra, Satish was VP of the Messaging Product Division at Openwave Systems, responsible for the email, unified messaging, voicemail, and instant messaging product lines. Satish managed the engineering and product management teams which had over 200 people and a $45 million budget. While at Openwave, Satish’s division deployed...

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