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Paul Madera

Founder of Meritech Capital Partners

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Paul Madera is the Co-Founder at Meritech Capital Partners in Palo Alto, California, with a focus on investing in various sectors and stages, including Series D, Series C, and Series B. He has made significant investments in companies like DataStax, Icertis, ForgeRock, and MuleSoft, contributing to their growth and success. Madera's career highlights include his role as a Managing Director and Co-Founder at Meritech Capital Partners, where he has successfully invested in a wide range of companies, and his board memberships and investments in prominent companies like Yubico, Kinetica, and DataStax, showcasing his expertise in the tech and investment sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member/Investor

    2019 - Current

Filevine offers a cloud-native case management software to help firms be more efficient.

Raised $226,079,977.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Signal Peak Ventures, StepStone Group and Golub Capital.

  • Managing Director/Co-Founder

    1999

Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies.

  • Board Member/Investor

    2019

Yubico protects logins with hardware devices like YubiKey, which offer secure and user-friendly two-factor and passwordless authentication.

Raised $292,197,914.00 from AMF, Marc Benioff, Bure Equity AB, New Enterprise Associates, Ram Shriram, Meritech Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates and The Valley Fund.

  • Board Member/investor

    2018

Icertis is an AI-powered contract management platform that ensures compliance and minimizes risk.

Raised $516,000,000.00 from Irving Investors and SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • Board Member/Investor

    2017

Kinetica is a software development.

Raised $77,394,736.00 from Meritech Capital Partners, Citi Ventures, Canvas Ventures and GreatPoint Ventures.

  • Board Member/Investor

    2012

DataStax is the real-time data company for Gen AI applications.

Raised $342,571,788.00 from Crosslink Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, GS Growth, OnePrime Capital, Rokos Capital Management and EDBI.

  • Board Member/Investor

    2014 - 2022

ForgeRock is a multinational software company that develops commercial open-source identity and access management products.

Raised $233,665,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Accel, Foundation Capital, Riverwood Capital and Meritech Capital Partners.

  • Board Observer/Investor

    2017 - 2021

Braze is a customer engagement platform that enables customer-centric interactions between brands and consumers.

Raised $175,100,000.00 from Snowflake.

  • Board Observer/Investor

    2014 - 2017

MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.

Raised $259,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund and Greenspring Associates.

  • Board Member/Investor

    2010 - 2015

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