Status
ACTIVE
Global HQ
Menlo Park, United States
Countries of investment
- United States
- Israel
- Canada
- United Kingdom
Investment stages
- Seed
- Series A
- Series B
- Series C
- Growth
Industries
- Enterprise Software
- Consumer
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Fintech
- Infrastructure
- Developer Tools
- Marketplaces
- SaaS
- Healthcare
- Crypto
About
Greylock is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm focused on backing category-defining companies from seed through growth. Their focus spans enterprise software, consumer, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and infrastructure across the United States, Israel, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The firm supports founders from seed through growth stages.
Greylock is a Menlo Park-based venture capital firm focused on backing category-defining companies from seed through growth. Their focus spans enterprise software, consumer, AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and infrastructure across the United States, Israel, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The firm supports founders from seed through growth stages.
Investment Thesis
Greylock is a seed to growth stage venture capital firm deploying capital across enterprise software, consumer, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, and infrastructure sectors. They lead investments at all stages with high-conviction check sizes up to $25M seed and $100M+ growth rounds, backing category-defining companies from formation through scale. The firm differentiates itself as one of Silicon Valley's most storied VC firms with 60+ years of history, $3.5B AUM, and portfolio companies achieving over $500B in combined market value including Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Workday, Dropbox, Palo Alto Networks, and Discord.
Manager's Experience
Founded in 1965 by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory as one of the earliest venture capital firms, Greylock is now led by a partnership including Reid Hoffman (Partner, LinkedIn co-founder), Sarah Guo (former Partner), David Sze (Partner, backed Facebook and LinkedIn seed rounds), John Lilly (Partner, former Mozilla CEO), Aneel Bhusri (Partner, Workday co-founder), Asheem Chandna (Partner, cybersecurity focus), Jerry Chen (Partner, enterprise), Saam Motamedi (Partner, AI focus), Corinne Riley (Partner), Christine Kim (Partner), Seth Rosenberg (Partner), Jonathan Golden (Partner), and Mike Duboe (Partner). Team of 20+ investment professionals operates from Menlo Park with additional presence in San Francisco and New York. Manages over $3.5B AUM across multiple funds. Portfolio companies have achieved combined market value exceeding $500B, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Workday, Dropbox, Palo Alto Networks, Discord, Coinbase, Roblox, Cloudera, Nextdoor, and Figma. The firm has consistently ranked among top-tier venture firms globally with strong track record spanning six decades.
Team
Reid Hoffman - Partner
David Sze - Partner
John Lilly - Partner
Aneel Bhusri - Partner
Asheem Chandna - Partner
Jerry Chen - Partner
Saam Motamedi - Partner
Corinne Riley - Partner
Christine Kim - Partner
Seth Rosenberg - Partner
Jonathan Golden - Partner
Mike Duboe - Partner
Portfolio
Facebook (early)
Airbnb
Workday
Dropbox
Palo Alto Networks
Discord
Coinbase
Roblox
Cloudera
Nextdoor
Figma
Instacart
Zip
Braintrust
Sourcegraph
Cato Networks
Docker
Sana AI
Adept
Character.AI
Snowflake (early)
Duolingo
Anyscale
Retool
Nuro
Farmer's Business Network
Awake Security
Rubrik
Attentive