Andreessen Horowitz · Fortune Technology
Roadrunner raises $27 million from Kleiner Perkins and Founders Fund
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Joubin Mirzadegan will straight-up tell you: it’s boring—and that’s the point.
Key facts
- Roadrunner—cofounded in 2025 by Mirzadegan, Ajay Natarajan, and Eugene Shao—has the distinction of being Kleiner Perkins’s first incubation since Glean, founded via the legendary VC firm ’s Sand Hill
- Roadrunner’s raised a total of $27 million, including a seed round led by Kleiner and Hamid and a Series A led by Founders Fund
- Think of it like consumer transactions—credit card companies make 2% to 3% on that transaction, so they can facilitate the payment,” said Hamid
- I say this all the time internally: our ambition is to build a $10 billion company that we’re proud of,” said Mirzadegan
Summary
Mirzadegan’s startup Roadrunner builds AI-native, natural-language “configure, price, quote” (or CPQ) software. “I say this all the time internally: our ambition is to build a $10 billion company that we’re proud of,” said Mirzadegan. Roadrunner—cofounded in 2025 by Mirzadegan, Ajay Natarajan, and Eugene Shao—has the distinction of being Kleiner Perkins’s first incubation since Glean, founded via the legendary VC firm ’s Sand Hill Road office and now worth $7.2 billion. “Literally, as he came to our one-on-one, Joubin said: ‘I think I’m ready to start a company, I vibe-coded this over the weekend, and this is what it’s going to look like,’” Hamid told Fortune. Mirzadegan is still a partner at Kleiner, and the CEO at Roadrunner.