Satish Dharmaraj

Satish Dharmaraj is a Partner with Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Redpoint， Satish was the founder/CEO of Zimbra. At Zimbra， he grew sales from inception to $20M in subscription sales in the first year of selling and nearly doubled sales the next year. By the time it was sold， Zimbra was featured in the WSJ （Front Page）， the NY Times， Forbes， Fortune and USA today. Satish was directly responsible for leading the product vision， PR and the open source distribution strategy. Zimbra had many firsts – it pioneered AJAX， pioneered a new open source business model， a large channel strategy and blended a consumer product with a business offering in an innovative suite that sold to both the consumer and business segments. Satish was responsible for the sale of Zimbra to Yahoo for $350M – a contract he negotiated directly， without using a banker， on behalf of the board.