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Scott Raney

Serving Entrepreneurs

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

Scott Raney is a seasoned venture capitalist with a strong track record of serving entrepreneurs, currently holding board positions at LaunchDarkly, HashiCorp, Guild Education, and other notable companies. His career highlights include investments in successful companies like Twilio and Stripe, showcasing his expertise in identifying and supporting innovative startups in the tech industry.

Work Experience 

  • Investor

    2024 - Current

Chainguard provides low-to-zero CVE container images that provide a secure software foundation for building and running applications.

Raised $256,000,000.00 from Amplify Partners, MANTIS Venture Capital, Spark Capital, Redpoint, Lightspeed Venture Partners, IVP and Sequoia Capital.

  • Partner/Venture Capitalist

    2000

    I am an experienced investor focused on enterprise software, both infrastructure and applications, with a strong interest in AI's ability to transform how companies operate. I have led investments in leading companies such as Stripe, Hashicorp, Twilio, Cribl, Chainguard, LaunchDarkly, Sourcegraph, and Heroku, collaborating with exceptional entrepreneurs along the way.

Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.

  • Investor

    2021

Cribl is a software company that designs a unified data management platform for exploring, collecting, processing, and accessing data.

Raised $721,208,560.00 from IVP, Google Ventures, CapitalG, GIC and CRV.

  • Investor

    2017

LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that allows software development teams to deliver to their customers.

Raised $330,300,000.00 from Redpoint, Heavybit, Insight Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Uncork Capital, Top Tier Capital Partners, Threshold, Lead Edge Capital and Bloomberg Beta.

  • Investor

    2016

  • Investor

    2013

Twilio is a cloud communication company that enables users to use standard web languages to build voice, VoIP, and SMS apps via a web API.

Raised $614,415,525.00 from TCV.

  • Investor

    2016

  • Investor

    2015

  • Investor

    2012

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Raised $9,440,247,725.00 from E1 Ventures.

  • Investor

    2008

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