Investing Profile

Randy Glein

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Founder & Partner, DFJ Growth
dfj.com/people/randy-glein/Menlo Park, California
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University of Southern California Network
139 CONNECTIONS
University of Florida Network
43 CONNECTIONS
University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management Network
11 CONNECTIONS
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DFJ Partner
$2.0M - $10.0M
$6.0M
31
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: Jay Rughani (Andreessen Horowitz), Peter Thiel (Founders Fund), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Andy McLoughlin (Uncork Capital), Jerry Yang (AME Cloud Ventures), Paul Veradittakit (Pantera Capital), Ali Yahya (Andreessen Horowitz), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Anand Iyer (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Julie Yoo (Andreessen Horowitz), Joey Krug (Founders Fund), Amy Wu (Menlo Ventures), Matt Ocko (DCVC (Data Collective)), Emilie Choi (Coinbase Ventures), Jay Brown (Marcy Venture Partners), Keisuke Honda (Dreamers VC), Will Smith (Dreamers VC), Thomas Glocer (Angelic Ventures), Najam Kidwai (Frontier Ventures), Kevin Hartz (A* Capital (A Star Capital)), Kris Fredrickson (Verified Capital), Jerry Yang (Hardware Club), Ruchi Sanghvi (South Park Commons), Chi-Hua Chien (Goodwater Capital), Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter (Marcy Venture Partners), Ben Orthlieb (Linkedin), Eric Kwan (Locus Ventures), David Mes (Off The Grid Ventures), Shervin Pishevar (ACME Capital), Naval Ravikant (Sm4rt Predictive Systems), James Hong (NewCo), Patrick Chang (Dispersion Capital), Navin Chaddha (Mayfield Fund), Jay Z, Jeff Seibert, Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Kelly, Jared Leto, John Hennessy
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Series BDec 2021$1.8B
$2.9B
Co-investors: Carmichael Roberts (Breakthrough Energy Ventures), Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures), Steve Jurvetson (Baruch Future Ventures), John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins), Chris Sacca (Lowercase Capital), Matias Mosse (Starlight Ventures), Mike Schroepfer (Gigascale Capital), Nader Motamedy (Safar Partners), Maryanna Saenko (Baruch Future Ventures), Hisham Elhaddad (HOF Capital), Sam Englebardt (Galaxy Digital), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Mario Costantini (NEVA SGR), Stanley Druckenmiller, Bill Gates
Cohesity
Secondary MarketMar 2021$150M
Series EApr 2020$250M
$810M
Co-investors: Eric Wolford (Accel), Bill Coughran (Sequoia Capital), Karim Faris (Google Ventures), Gaurav Garg (Wing Venture Capital), Astasia Myers (Felicis Ventures), Carl Eschenbach (Sequoia Capital), Karan Mehandru (Madrona Ventures), Ashu Garg (Foundation Capital), Matthew Cowan (Next47), Deep Nishar (SoftBank Investment Advisers), Kevin Ding (DHVC (Digital Horizon Capital)), Stuart Peterson (Artis Ventures (AV)), Lak Ananth (Next47), Rob Salvagno (Cisco Investments)
Neocis
Series DOct 2020$72M
$140M
Co-investors: Robert Mittendorff (B Capital Group), Jocelyn Kinsey (DFJ), Oliver Keown (Intuitive Ventures), Fred Moll (Sonder Capital), Ajay Royan (Mithril Capital Management)
Yellowbrick Data
Series CJun 2019$81M
$250M
Co-investors: Steve Harrick (IVP), Sandy Miller (IVP), Alexander Lim (IVP), Mark Siegel (Menlo Ventures), Sam Fort (DFJ), Robert Schwartz (Third Point Ventures), 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)
Investor Alchemy2021 - Present
Corporate Vice President Tribune Company / Tribune Ventures2000 - 2002
Principal CID Equity Partners1999 - 2000
University of California, Los Angeles - The Anderson School of Management MBA
University of Southern California MSEE Electrical Engineering
University of Florida BSEE Electrical Engineering