Company Research Report: GreatPoint Ventures

Company Overview

Name: GreatPoint Ventures

Mission: To partner with entrepreneurs solving big problems across enterprise, healthcare, bio-tech, and food.

Founded: 2015 by entrepreneurs and company-builders with over 100 years of operational experience.

Key People:

• Ray Lane, Partner Emeritus

• Andrew Perlman, Managing Partner

• Ashok Krishnamurthi, Managing Partner

• DJ Patil, General Partner

• Ashley Sommerschield, COO

• Gautam Krishnamurthi, Partner

• Avi Goldberg, Partner

• Joseph Tuchman, Partner

• David Resnekov, Investor

• Dave Bright, Investor

• Krish Kohli, Investor

• Sean Oliveira, Operations Manager

• Holly Kjos, Office of the Managing Partners

• Anita Khamvongsa, Executive Assistant and Office Manager

• Mike McCormick, Venture Partner

Headquarters: San Francisco, CA

Number of Employees: Approximately 11-50

Revenue: No information is available

What is the company known for: GreatPoint Ventures is known for its early-stage venture capital investments, particularly in companies tackling multi-disciplinary and complex problems (MMIPs).

Products

Overview

GreatPoint Ventures does not produce traditional products but invests in a wide range of companies that provide various innovative solutions. Below are examples of companies they have invested in, along with high-level descriptions and key features of their products.

Notable Portfolio Companies & Products

1. Beyond Meat

• Product: Plant-based meat products

• Key Features: Makes plant-based burgers and sausages sold in thousands of restaurants and grocery stores. Noted for texture and taste that closely resemble meat.

2. Abett

• Product: Data warehouse

• Key Features: Provides real-time access to health benefits claims and information.

3. Activ Surgical

• Product: Autonomous surgical robotics platform

• Key Features: Outperforms human surgeons in complex surgical tasks.

4. Atlas Health

• Product: Healthcare financial aid access

• Key Features: Helps patients and hospitals access large pools of medical financial aid.

5. Kinetica

• Product: GPU-architected databases

• Key Features: Up to 1,000x faster and 90% cheaper than other database offerings. Ideal for machine learning and geo-spatial analysis.

6. Hero

• Product: Low-carb versions of popular foods

• Key Features: Offers tasty, low-carb food options without sacrificing flavor.

Recent Developments

New Products and Features

1. Datalogz Secures $5 Million Funding

• Development: Investment led by GreatPoint Ventures

• New Feature: Groundbreaking solution to end business intelligence sprawl.

2. Featureform Raises $5.5M

• Development: Investment to bring order to feature management ‘chaos’.

• New Feature: Platform for building, sharing, deploying, and monitoring data sets for machine learning.

3. Shakudo Funding of $7.2M

• Development: Investment led by GreatPoint Ventures.

• New Feature: One-stop platform for open-source tools in the modern data stack.

4. Pareto by Recogni

• Development: Introduction of Pareto, a GenAI log-math number system.

• New Feature: Makes GenAI inference compute smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient while maintaining high accuracy.

New Partnerships & Fundraisers

1. Ipsen and Skyhawk Therapeutics

• Partnership: RNA targeting research collaboration in rare neurological diseases.

2. Recogni Raises $102 Million

• Fundraiser: Advance next-generation AI inference systems for generative AI and intelligent autonomy.

• Impact: Provides computing power with significantly less energy consumption.

Internal Developments

1. DJ Patil Joins GreatPoint Ventures

• Role: General Partner focusing on building companies that address Massively Multi/Interdisciplinary Problems (MMIPs).

Community Engagements

1. Fireside Chat Events

• Details: Networking and discussion events featuring DJ Patil and other industry leaders focused on the future of data and analytics.

Contact

• Website: [GreatPoint Ventures](https://www.gpv.com)

• Industry: Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Headquarters: San Francisco, CA, United States

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