GreatPoint Ventures

DEAD — fundraise tier

No remaining path to the firm. Isaiah was the sole connector (intro to GP Gautam Krishnamurthi) and is now joining init.inc as a co-founder, so he can no longer act as an intro source. Closed 2026-04-28. Not a thesis pass — a connector-loss closure (same closure event that killed First Round, South Park Commons, Ascend, and Madrona for init.inc on 2026-04-28).

Firm Profile

Early-stage VC founded 2015, HQ San Francisco (744 Montgomery St). Disambiguation: this is the Ray Lane / Andrew Perlman firm (gpv.com) — NOT GreatPoint Energy. Founded by entrepreneurs/operators; positions itself as a hands-on, low-volume fund (“fewer than 10 new investments per year”). Thesis spans enterprise, healthcare, biotech, and food/ag. Invests $250K–$20M into Seed, Series A, and Series B, and most often leads Series As ^[single-source — firm self-description]. Current fund reported at **~$291.6M\ast \ast ;typicalcheck\ast \ast$3M–$10M\ast \ast (Seed$500K–$5M,SeriesA$2M–$20M). ^[single-source on exact fund size — VCSheet/Crunchbase aggregator]

Partners

• Ray Lane — Partner Emeritus; ex-President & COO of Oracle, ex-Chairman of HP. (plain text — no roster page)
• Andrew Perlman — Founding Managing Partner.
• Gautam Krishnamurthi — General Partner. (CRM POC — the contact Isaiah’s intro targeted.)
• DJ Patil — General Partner (ex-US Chief Data Scientist). · Ashok Krishnamurthi — Managing Partner. · Joseph Tuchman, Avi Goldberg, David Resnekov — Partners.

Recent pre-seed/seed activity (Pass-1 sketch — ≤5 deals; exhaustive 18–24mo pull is Pass 2)

• Seraphic Security — $29M Series A, led by GPV, Jan 2025 (w/ CrowdStrike Falcon Fund). (browser security; later acquired by CrowdStrike)
• Hyper — $6.3M seed, GPV participated (Eniac led), Jul 2025. (voice AI)
• Qualified Health — Series B, GPV participated (large AI/health syndicate incl. NEA), Mar 2026.
• Harken Sweets — seed (amount undisclosed), GPV existing backer, May 2026. (consumer/food)
• Full data → /Users/sazzad14/seed-market-scan/firms/greatpoint-ventures.csv.

Best data channels for this firm

GlobeNewswire / PRNewswire press releases are most reliable for GPV-led rounds (Seraphic). For participation-only deals, The SaaS News + FinSMEs + AlleyWatch round-ups carry the investor list. Crunchbase/VCSheet best for fund-size + check-size aggregates (treat as single-source). LinkedIn company page lists the current partner bench accurately.

Fundraise Relationship (init.inc)

• Status — DEAD for this round. Plausible thesis adjacency exists (GPV’s enterprise lane + Series-A-lead posture vs init.inc’s seed→A arc), but there is no live connector. The only intro path collapsed when Isaiah joined init.inc as a co-founder. Re-touch trigger: a new warm path to Gautam Krishnamurthi (or Perlman/Lane).
• Conversation log (newest first):
  • 2026-04-28 — Marked Lost. Reason: connector loss — Isaiah (only intro source → Gautam Krishnamurthi) joined init.inc as co-founder; no alternate path identified.
  • (No direct firm contact ever occurred — the intro never landed before closure.)
• Mutual connections / warm path: Isaiah (now init.inc co-founder — path extinguished). No alternate connector on file.
• Re-touch trigger: A genuinely new warm intro to Gautam Krishnamurthi, or a partner-level relationship surfacing via a portfolio-founder shared connection. Until then, dormant.
• Personal & rapport notes: Operator-heavy partnership (Lane, Patil) — responds to operator credibility and concrete enterprise traction; low-volume fund means high per-deal conviction bar.
• Competitor-conflict flag: No conflict identified vs init.inc’s 8 known AI-ITSM competitors. GPV is clean-lane on the cap-table-conflict matrix — the closure is purely a connector-loss, not a conflict or thesis pass. ✅
• Live stage: tracked in the CRM (Google Sheet).

Cross-check vs existing wiki

Not previously present in cap-table-patterns-across-startup-competitors (no competitor exposure). No contradictions. Adds a clean-lane firm closed for connector reasons, not conflict.

Related

cap-table-patterns-across-startup-competitors · xfund (sibling DEAD-tier firm, same pod) · south-park-commons (same 2026-04-28 connector-loss closure event)

Pass 2 deal pattern (2026-05-27)

Lead-rate ~25% in window — of 4 verified 2025-2026 rows, **1 LED (Seraphic Series A $29MJan2025)+3PARTICIPATED(Hyperseed$6.3M Jul 2025, Nixtla Series A $16MFeb2026,QualifiedHealthSeriesBMar2026,HarkenSweetsseedMay2026)\ast \ast .GPVleadsselectively(mostlySeriesAs,perfirmself-description)andparticipatesbroadly.Check-size:$250K-$20Mstated;leadsconcentrate$20M+ Series As. Stage mix = Seed + Series A/B; sector spread very wide (cybersecurity, voice AI, time-series/agentic, healthcare AI, food).

Pass-1 corrections: Tensordyne/Recogni Series C ❓ → ✅ (Celesta + GPV co-leads Feb 20 2024 confirmed by both firms’ press releases). Net-new rows: +2 (Nixtla $16MSeriesAFeb52026—GPVparticipationinagentictime-seriesAI;Shakudo$7.2M Series A Jul 2023 — pre-window context, DJ Patil-led GPV Series A — partner attribution datapoint). Best data channel: GlobeNewswire / PRNewswire for GPV-led rounds (Seraphic, Nixtla, Recogni all surface here cleanly); SaaS News + FinSMEs + AlleyWatch round-ups for participation-only deals where investor lists matter. GPV’s own site (gpv.com) is thin — they don’t self-publish memos like Wyld/SPC. Partner attribution: DJ Patil is the named-partner channel for data/AI deals. No competitor-cap-table conflict introduced by new rows — all clean-lane vs init.inc’s 8 known competitors. ✅