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Robert Schwartz
Managing Partner at Third Point LLC
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Robert Schwartz is the Managing Partner at Third Point Ventures in Menlo Park, California, overseeing investments in various sectors including semiconductors and social commerce. He has served on the board of directors for numerous successful companies like Ushur, Sysdig, and Verbit, and has made impactful investments in companies such as SentinelOne and PrecisionHawk.
Work Experience
Managing Partner - Third Point Ventures
2000 - Current
Since June 2000, Mr. Schwartz has been Managing Partner of Third Point Ventures, the Menlo Park, California based venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, which is a registered investment adviser based in New York and the investment manager of the Third Point Funds. Mr. Schwartz is presently a director of Next Silicon, Verbit, Sysdig, Kentik, Kumu Networks, Aryaka, R2 Semiconductor, YellowBrick Data, Ushur, and Trullion. Previously he led investments in Radia Communications (acquired by Texas Instruments), LitePoint (acquired by Teradyne), Global Locate (Acquired by Broadcom), EnPhase Energy (Nasdaq : ENPH), Apigee (Nasdaq: APIC, Acquired by Alphabet/GOOG), IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo!), Elastica (acquired by BlueCoat), Swift Financial (Acquired by PayPal), SentinelOne (NYSE:S), CloudVelox (acquired by VMWare), Packet (acquired by Equinix), Upstart (Nasdaq:UPST), CipherTrace (acquired by Mastercard), PrecisionHawk (acquired by Field), and Ahana (acquired by IBM). Previously, for 23 years, Mr. Schwartz was the President of RF Associates North, a privately held communications semiconductor manufacturer’s representative firm. Mr. Schwartz holds a multi-discipline engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Third Point is an SEC-registered investment adviser based in New York.
Member Board Of Directors
2021
Verbit is a comprehensive verbal intelligence platform for speech-intensive industries
Raised $569,000,000.00 from Invest City Capital.
Member Board Of Directors
2021
Member Board Of Directors
2021
The leader in cloud security powered by runtime insights
Raised $729,500,000.00 from Goldman Sachs, Bain Capital Ventures, Guggenheim Partners, Accel, PremjiInvest, Glynn Capital Management, Next47, DFJ Growth, Third Point Ventures and Permira.
Member Board Of Directors
2020
Ushur is a cloud-based AI company that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.
Raised $92,000,000.00 from Iron Pillar, Third Point Ventures, 8VC, Pentland Ventures and Aflac Global Ventures.
Member Board Of Directors
2016
Aryaka delivers its Unified SASE as a Service Networking and Security Solutions to over 500 Enterprises Worldwide
Raised $186,000,000.00 from Presidio Ventures, Third Point Ventures, Trinity Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, InterWest Partners, GS Growth, Goldman Sachs, DTCP and Mohr Davidow Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2016
Kentik is a network management platform that provides visibility, performance, and security services to digital enterprises.
Raised $101,700,000.00 from August Capital, Delta-v Capital, Vistara Growth, DCVC, Jesse Robbins, Engineering Capital, Tahoma Ventures, Third Point Ventures, Golub Capital and Gaingels.
Member Board of Directors
2015
Yellowbrick Data empowers companies to make faster decisions with all of their data.
Raised $248,000,000.00 from Citadel, Threshold, DFJ Growth, Next47, Third Point Ventures, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Google Ventures, Third Point Ventures and BMW i Ventures.
Member Board of Directors
2014
Rubicon Labs, is a cybersecurity company founded by veterans of Apple and Broadcom,
Raised $19,437,999.00 from Akamai Technologies, Third Point Ventures and Pelion Venture Partners.
Member Board of Directors
2013