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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A social media and social networking service company.
Coinbase is a digital asset exchange company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It operates exchanges of Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, and Litecoin.
Instagram is a Menlo Park based photo-sharing social media platform.
Dropbox is a file sharing and productivity startup created by Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi in 2007.
Cloudera is a business enterprise founded by Christophe Bisciglia, Jeff Hammerbacher and Amr Awadallah.
Domo designs and delivers an executive management platform as a service to help executives manage their business.
Nextdoor is a company providing a private communications platform for neighborhoods.It was founded in 2011 and is located in San Francisco, California.
Airbnb provides an online platform for listing, searching and booking rental accommodations.
Blend invites companies that service the mortgage industry to sell digital tools--APIs--through its platform.
Lyra helps companies improve access to effective, high-quality mental health care for their employees.
A company offering an online platform for collaborative design in team environments.
U.S-based 3D media technology company providing worldwide end-to-end virtual media solutions.
Roblox provides an online entertainment platform that allows users to build and play games and share them with others.
Docker provides an open-source project for deploying applications inside software containers.
Universe is a mobile website builder offering no code development founded in 2014 by Joseph Cohen.
HelloSign is a cloud-based electronic signature tool to sign, fill out, send, retrieve, and save documents.
IFTTT is a smart-home technology company and software, focused on connecting Internet-of-Things enabled smart devices.
The only automated financial advisor offering financial planning, investment management and banking-related services all on a mobile app.
A venture capital firm in California that focuses on cybersecurity.
A company with a collaborative productivity software for mobile and the web. It was founded in 2012 and is located in San Francisco, California.
A software company with a platform for complex document workflows. It was founded in 2015 and has headquarters in San Francisco, California.
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