Overview
RedShift Ventures
Early Stage Venture Capital Firm
Headquartered in Chevy Chase, MD
Firm Leaders
- Rich Harris, General Partner & Founder
- Mark Frantz, Venture Partner
- Jami Ojala, V.P. of Finance
Funds
Approximately $220M under management
Typical Investment
Lead or co-lead early stage equity rounds. We invest primarily in U.S.-based companies and our typical initial investment is $1-4 million. Initial RedShift portfolio companies typically have developed at least a beta product and have conducted initial customer testing. We like to invest $5-10 million in each company over the life of that enterprise.
Investment Areas
Typical focus is on technologies RedShift Ventures knows well:
- Communications
- Microelectronics
- Information Technology
Portfolio Companies
Current Portfolio Companies include:
- Digital Bridge Communications
- Imaginova
- Intelliworks
- Lamina
- Novariant
- Nextreme
- ProtoStar
- SiOnyx
- Telarix
- TerraGo
- vBrick