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Monday, March 23, 2009

Zimbra Founder and Ex-Yahoo Exec Dharmaraj to Redpoint Ventures

Another former Yahoo exec has landed at a Silicon Valley venture firm. This time, well-regarded serial entrepreneur Satish Dharmaraj will become a partner at Redpoint Ventures, according to sources.

The move of Dharmaraj is interesting, given that he is not starting a new company or taking a post as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the venture capital firm, which many operating execs do after leaving a company.

Sources close to the situation said Dharmaraj would focus on business software, the enterprise arena and infrastructure at Redpoint.

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Tuesday, May 1, 2007

A Bell Rings and Another Yahoo Gets His VC Wings

Yet another departed Yahoo executive has landed at a well-known venture capital firm–this time with its former music head David Goldberg’s new stint as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark Capital. Earlier this week, Andrew Braccia, Yahoo’s vice president for consumer Web search, left the company to become a principal at Accel Partners.
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Braccia Jumps From Yahoo to Accel Partners

To have spent nine years at Yahoo makes Andrew Braccia an old man by Web standards, even though he is only 31. Now the company’s vice president for consumer Web search is becoming, at his advanced age, a newly minted venture capitalist at Accel Partners. He slipped out of Yahoo a few weeks ago, after [...]

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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