Rich Redelfs

Independent Advisor, CEO Coach, and Board Member at Various Companies (and part time ski bum)

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Rich Redelfs is an accomplished Independent Advisor, CEO Coach, and Board Member at various companies, with a strong background in executive coaching, board administration, corporate development, and venture capital. Notable highlights include serving as President and CEO of Atheros Communications and as a General Partner at Foundation Capital, showcasing his expertise in leading successful organizations and investments.

Work Experience 

  • Independent Advisor, CEO Coach, and Board Member

    2016 - Current

  • Member Board of Directors

    2023

    Ottometric has radically transformed automotive test-drive validation with a new software platform that automates and enhances the validation and training process. With Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) test-driving generating petabytes of data, Ottometric's AI-based platform helps companies save millions $ in development costs while improving system reliability and time-to-market, and ultimately saving lives.

Accelerating ADAS Validation and AV Training for automotive system suppliers and OEMs

Raised $4,900,000.00 from Proeza Ventures, Automotive Ventures, Rally Ventures, Goodyear Ventures, Investor Collaborative, Trucks Venture Capital and Reinforced Ventures.

  • Member Board of Directors

    2019

    Quadric's GPNPU (general purpose neural processing unit) is a licensable processor IP core, which delivers high ML inference performance while also running C++ code without forcing the developer to artificially partition application code between two or three different kinds of processors. It's an edge CPU, DSP and AI-accelerator all in one.

Quadric is a Semiconductor IP licensor. Quadric's GPNPU processor blends machine learning inference performance with DSP programmability.

Raised $43,750,000.00 from Xerox Venture Capital, MESH, Uncork Capital, Cota Capital, MegaChips, Denso, Pear VC and Leawood Venture Capital.

  • Chairman of the Board

    2012 - 2018

  • Chairman of the Board

    2016 - 2017

  • General Partner

    2004 - 2015

Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.

  • President and CEO

    1999 - 2003

  • VP/GM and various sales and marketing mgmt.

    1989 - 1999

3Com provides network-based intrusion prevention systems that deliver application, infrastructure and performance protection.

Raised $1,100,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates.

  • COO

    1987 - 1989

  • Various sales and marketing management

    1982 - 1987

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