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Natalie Bartlett works alone at a conference table at the Redpoint Ventures office in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco Monday morning. A life-size cutout of company partner, Tomasz Tunguz, keeps her company. Karl Mondon — Bay Area News Group

Just as Rodeo Drive symbolizes movie-star glamour and Wall Street represents corporate money, Sand Hill Road has long been synonymous with the bundles of cash backing the tech industry.

But the Menlo Park street that houses some of Silicon Valley’s most prestigious venture capital firms and has funneled money into the likes of Facebook, Google, Twitter and Instagram, is no longer the VC mecca it once was.

Image: Natalie Bartlett works alone at a conference table at the Redpoint Ventures office in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco Monday morning. A life-size cutout of company partner, Tomasz Tunguz, keeps her company. Karl Mondon — Bay Area News Group