Brad Jones is Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus at Redpoint, the Menlo Park venture firm he helped launch in 1999. He also works as a venture and real estate investor in Los Angeles and is a Partner at TopTier Wines.

Brad earned an AB in Chemistry, summa cum laude, and an AM in Physics from Harvard, then an MBA and JD from Stanford. He joined Brentwood Venture Capital in 1981 and became a general partner before spinning out to form Redpoint.

Brad has received the Los Angeles Venture Association's first Lifetime Achievement Award and the Ernst & Young Supporter of Entrepreneurship Award. He focuses on technology opportunities in Southern California across software, wireless, semiconductors, medical devices and biotechnology.

Brad has served on the boards of ten public companies funded by Brentwood and Redpoint, including Stamps.com. He has also been a Venture Partner at Colle Capital Partners and sits on private company boards.

Redpoint opened with a $600 million fund, then the largest first-time fund for a new firm, and has since backed Stripe, Twilio, Snowflake and early Netflix. The firm has raised a $650 million tenth fund and manages billions in assets.