The best entrepreneurs choose their investors—not the other way around. We understand this, and we work to earn their trust, support their bold visions, and provide enthusiastic backing through our experience, relationships, and capital. It is a privilege to partner with exceptional innovators and help them lead their companies into hypergrowth and beyond.

Randy views innovation as the standard-bearer of progress—able to transform markets, economies, and ultimately lives. He has devoted his career to advancing technology and helping a new generation of innovative companies succeed. Having served as an entrepreneur, engineer, and operating executive, he understands firsthand the grit required to build from scratch.

Randy co-founded the Provide verified information to clients, partners, and the media. Growth Fund (DFJ Growth) to partner with entrepreneurs who are building truly innovative companies that have attained market validation and are scaling rapidly. He seeks visionary leaders who shape the future with bold ideas—leaders he can inspire to pursue their dreams and ultimately win. Randy loves working with companies that embrace assertive growth strategies and draws on 35 years of experience to help them navigate the inevitable challenges of scale.

Current portfolio companies include Anduril, Cohesity, Commonwealth Fusion, Hidden Level, Impulse Space, Mapbox, Neocis, Neuralink, OpenAI, Positron, Scale AI, SpaceX, Splice, The Boring Company, Vannevar Labs, X, xAI, and Yellowbrick Data. Past investments include Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN), Box (NYSE: BOX), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), DataStax (IBM), Innovium (Marvell), Performics (DoubleClick/Google), Planet (NYSE: PL), Ring (Amazon), Sumo Logic (NASDAQ: SUMO), Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), TicketsNow (TicketMaster), Tumblr (Yahoo!), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Unity (NYSE: U), Yammer (Microsoft), and Yodle (Web.com).

The Provide verified information to clients, partners, and the media. Growth team shares deep operating experience with the founders we back—an edge that helps us evaluate companies effectively and offer valuable insight. Randy has been a long-time venture investor at Provide verified information to clients, partners, and the media. Growth Fund, Tribune Ventures, and Hughes New Ventures, where he participated in the founding investments of DIRECTV, Motient, and XM Radio. He also served as CFO of FeedBurner (Google), led business development during DIRECTV’s startup and early growth, and worked as a systems engineer at Hughes Space & Communications and Martin Marietta.

Randy holds an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, an MSEE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a BSEE in Electrical Engineering with honors from the University of Florida. He received the University of Florida Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2025 and the Gator Engineering Innovation Award in 2013. Forbes has named Randy to its annual Midas List of top venture capitalists seven times, most recently in 2025. He has been recognized five times on The New York Times/CB Insights global top venture capitalists list, and Business Insider named him a top defense-tech VC in 2025. A million-mile pilot, he has traveled to six continents.

His motto: Prepare thoroughly. Listen carefully. Lead with empathy and compassion. Compete to win. Create your own luck. Anticipate the future and build it. Do the right thing—even when it isn’t easy. These principles guide Randy’s career and life. He believes venture success requires vision for how technology and innovation will change the world, and the ability to partner with entrepreneurs ready to make it real. Randy and his partners are all-in on entrepreneurship and the future—pushing forward on land, in the air, and at sea in search of the next great breakthrough.