Raymond Tonsing
Managing Partner at Caffeinated Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2009 - Current
We believe there are certain people in this world who are truly extraordinary. People with transformative ideas and the determination to make it happen. Caffeinated exists to find these rare individuals and catalyze their success. We typically partner with founders as early as possible and invest throughout the life of the company. We're aggressively open-minded and strive to be your most impactful investor.
Caffeinated Capital is a technology venture capital firm that partners with founders at the inception stage.
Investor & Board Member
2023
Saronic designs and manufactures unmanned surface vehicles for maritime security and domain awareness.
Raised $245,000,000.00 from 8VC, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Silent Ventures, Elad Gil, Caffeinated Capital and NightDragon.
Investor & Board Member
2021
Onebrief is a web-based military planning software for rapid decision-making and collaboration.
Raised $37,453,815.00 from 9Yards Capital, Human Capital and Caffeinated Capital.
Investor & Board Observer
2020
Varda is a space manufacturing startup that creates products in microgravity and retrieves them for terrestrial use.
Raised $141,025,000.00 from Caffeinated Capital, Fifty Years, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, Khosla Ventures, Nitesh Banta, General Catalyst, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund and Sinai Capital Partners.
Investor & Board Observer
2013
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Raised $1,352,600,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake, D1 Capital Partners, Franklin Templeton, T. Rowe Price, Friends & Family Capital, XN, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.
Investor
2019
Investor
2019
Investor
2017
Clipboard Health is a marketplace where nurses and CNAs can search for jobs, and where healthcare facilities can fill open shifts.
Raised $94,120,000.00 from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, SciFi VC, Caffeinated Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Investor
2015
Virta delivers a clinically-proven treatment to reverse type 2 diabetes and other chronic metabolic diseases.
Raised $373,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management.
Investor
2017
Boom Supersonic is redefining commercial air travel by bringing sustainable, supersonic flight to the skies