Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm that back entrepreneurs building consumer and enterprise software companies. Their investments include Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), Docker, Dropbox (Nasdaq:DBX), Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).

Founded in 1965, Greylock Partners is based in Menlo Park, California, after they moved their in 2009 from their headquarters in the Boston area. The firm seeks to invest in the applications, cloud, software as a service (SaaS), data center, networking, security and storage, advertising, commerce, gaming, marketplaces, media, mobile, services, and social media sectors.

Greylock Partners will invest in all stages of a companies growth, from seed to growth investments. They have $3.5 billion in funds under management, have led over 130 profitable mergers and acquisitions and over 175 IPO's since their founding.

Greylock Partners also host the Greylock Techfair, since 2013, where they help university students and recent graduates looking for internships or full-time opportunities. For the Techfair, Greylock Partners brings together interested students and the engineers, product leaders and designers of participating companies.

Greylock Partners also hosts Hackfest, where teams compete with their technology-based ideas for a $10,000 prize, judged by industry leaders based on the criteria of level of difficulty, aesthetics, originality, usefulness and the projects "wow" factor.

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Asheem Chandna

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Baer Tierkel

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Ben Mathes

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Ben Weiss

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Bill Kaiser

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Brandee Barker

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Brendan Baker

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Casandra Espinoza

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Chris McCann

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Daniel Portillo

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Dave Morin

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David Gifford

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David Sze

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DJ Patil

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Donald Fischer

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Elisa Schreiber

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Evan Tana

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Jerry Chen

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Wisetack closes on $40M to bring 'buy now, pay later' to in-person services

Mary Ann Azevedo

September 9, 2021

TechCrunch

Buy now, pay later is growing globally -- with various companies expanding to, and in, different parts of the world, such as Africa, Latin America and Asia. Here in the U.S., Affirm and Klarna are big players, and Square recently announced plans to acquire Afterpay, which also is eyeing growth here. Traditional buy now, pay [...]

Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman's newest SPAC

Kirsten Korosec

June 4, 2021

TechCrunch

Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora is close to finalizing a deal to merge with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, the newest special purpose acquisition company launched by LinkedIn co-founder and investor Reid Hoffman, Zynga founder Mark Pincus and managing partner Michael Thompson, according to several sources familiar with the talks. One of the sticking points is the [...]

Why Greylock Partners and Baillie Gifford invested in Nuro

Mark Matousek

May 7, 2021

Business Insider

Nuro has raised $1.5 billion while building a roster of blue-chip partners that includes Walmart, Domino's Pizza, and CVS.

Want to smell like a VC? Somebody is selling stolen Greylock office soap on Craigslist.

Margaux MacColl

April 21, 2021

Business Insider

Office hand soap from the prestigious VC firm Greylock Partners is for sale on Craigslist. The seller has allegedly had an offer for at least $100.

46 enterprise tech startups to bet your career on in 2021

Rosalie Chan, Melia Russell, Jeff Elder and Ashley Stewart

February 13, 2021

Business Insider

If there's one industry you can bet on during an economic downturn, it's enterprise tech. These are the startups where we think you should work.

100 rising-star VCs who represent the future of venture capital - Business Insider

Berber Jin

November 9, 2020

Business Insider

These 100 venture capitalists don't work for the big-name Silicon Valley firms, but are changing the face of early-stage startups.

Greylock's Reid Hoffman and Sarah Guo to talk fundraising at Early Stage SF 2020

Jordan Crook

January 29, 2020

TechCrunch

Early Stage SF is around the corner, and we are more than excited for this brand new event. The intimate gathering of founders, VCs, operators and tech industry experts is all about giving founders the tools they need to find success, no matter the challenge ahead of them. Struggling to understand the legal aspects of [...]

Jeff Clavier, Sarah Guo, Ali Partovi, and Caryn Marooney to speak at Early Stage SF

Jordan Crook

January 23, 2020

TechCrunch

Early Stage SF is sneaking up on us and there is plenty to be excited about. The one-day event, which brings together a wide variety of startup experts to host breakout sessions, is going down on April 28 and we have a handful of speakers to announce. So without any further ado: We're thrilled to [...]

Report: Self-driving car startup Aurora is raising capital at a $2B valuation

Kate Clark

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TechCrunch

Early last year, LinkedIn co-founder and prolific venture capital investor Reid Hoffman called Chris Urmson "the Henry Ford of autonomous vehicles (AV)." The vote of confidence and big check from Hoffman, coupled with a team of deeply knowledgable AV entrepreneurs, has catapulted his co...