| Dartmouth College, BA, BE, and MBA | |
| Engineering sciences |
With almost 30 years of venture capital experience, Randy Lunn holds an impressive investment record and is one of the foremost venture capital investors in Southern California. He consistently produces significant new and growing businesses that are leaders in their fields. As a founding managing director of Palomar Ventures, he works closely with portfolio companies and the Palomar team members.
Randy has broad and successful experience in the venture capital industry. He began his venture capital career in 1979 as one of two founders of Harrison Capital, the venture arm of Texaco. At Harrison Capital, he was responsible for building a portfolio of investments that included RF Monolithics, Iomega, Amgen, Compression Labs, MCC (Kyocera), Summa Four (Cisco), and Synercom. He then went on to become a founder and general partner of Fairfield Venture Partners and made investments in Symbolics, Applied Digital Access, and Life Technologies.
In 1990, he joined TVM Techno Venture Management, an international venture capital firm, where he was managing partner of US operations. He helped grow and profitably liquidate a legacy fund and also built a highly successful portfolio of investments that included Pairgain (ADC Telecom), SCM Microsystems, AnswerSoft (Concerto), Benchmarq Microelectronics, Quantum Magnetics (InVision/GE), Onco Therapeutics (Biomira), Dura Pharmaceuticals/DryHaler (Elan), and CollaGenex.
Randy has sat on numerous boards of both US and European companies, helped establish US subsidiaries (SCM Microsystems, Sequenom, ATecoM, Dalim), took interim management positions, and helped advise companies as they navigated the IPO process both in the US and Europe.
He currently sits on the boards of two Palomar investments including chairman of Continuous Computing. Profitable Palomar exits have included Datallegro (Microsoft) and Incuity (Rockwell Automation).
