Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm with headquarters located in Menlo Park, California. The firm is one of the oldest venture capital firms in the U.S. and was founded in 1965 in Cambridge Massachusetts. The three founding partners of Greylock were Bill Elfers, Dan Gregory and Charlie Waite. The company currently has 100 employees. In addition to their operations in the U.S., Greylock operates in Israel under the brand 83north. The firm organizes their investments into 4 categories; Consumer and Services, including financial, healthcare and retail companies; Enterprise Infrastructure, including networking, security and storage companies; Enterprise Software, including Software-as-a-service companies (SaaS); and Semiconductors, which include networking and wireless companies.

Greylock raised $10 million USD in capital shortly after its founding in 1965. In 2013, the firm raised their 14th fund with a capitalization of $1 billion USD. Since its inception, Greylock has seen over 170 portfolio companies IPO and over 135 portfolio companies undergo successful mergers or acquisitions. As of 2018, the firm had over $3.5B in assets under management. Greylock invests in various stages of development, from seed financing for early stage startups to growth financing for established enterprise companies. Greylock’s portfolio includes companies such as Airbnb, Linkedin, Facebook, Medium, Nextdoor, Okta, Workday, as well as many others.