Rembrandt Venture Partners
About Rembrandt Venture Partners
Rembrandt is not your typical early-stage venture capital firm. It is a team of successful entrepreneurs now helping the next generation build insanely great companies, together bringing more than 60 years of Silicon Valley experience and 13 venture-backed startups generating over $3 billion in investor return.
Founded in 2004 by Gerald "Jerry" Casilli, the firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California. Rembrandt brings an operational perspective to its investments, with partners contributing over 30 years of combined C-level operating experience and active board involvement across portfolio companies.
The portfolio spans market-changing companies across enterprise, infrastructure, and consumer information technology, including software, security, and DevOps. Notable investments include CloudBees, Pipedrive, PandaDoc, Ortto (acquired by Canva), Mesh Connect, and RapidFort, alongside historical exits like Dropbox, Nuance Communications, SmartRecruiters (acquired by SAP), and Xactly (acquired by Vista Equity Partners).
Rembrandt invests in seed and early-stage rounds of innovative startups, having managed roughly $500 million in capital across 100+ investments, yielding 18 IPOs and 52 M&A exits. Its criteria favor founders building disruptive, market-changing technology companies.
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- Douglas Schrier, Managing General Partner