Tom Dyal is Co-Founder and Partner Emeritus at Redpoint, the venture firm he helped launch in 1999. He has invested across software, security and consumer technology throughout his career.

Tom earned a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Before Redpoint, he was a general partner at IVP, which he joined in 1997.

Tom is a past president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and served on Georgia Tech's President's Advisory Board for six years. He is known for backing exceptional teams through long-term board partnerships.

Starting in 2007, Tom was instrumental in building Redpoint's growth investing practice and co-managed the group for 15 years. He has backed DraftKings, SentinelOne, Just Eat, Pocket Gems, Answers.com, Clearwell Systems, Caspida and Qwilt.

Redpoint's first fund of $600M was the largest first-time fund for a new firm at the time, and the firm now manages about $4.5B in assets. Tom's growth investments produced exits such as Clearwell to Symantec and Caspida to Splunk, along with public listings like DraftKings and SentinelOne.