Venture Capital Firms in Bay Area – Greylock Partners – Menlo Park, CA – 50/50

Venture Capital Firms in Bay Area – Greylock Partners – Menlo Park, CA – 50/50


Venture Capital Firms in Bay Area – Greylock Partners – Menlo Park, CA – 50/50

Early Stage
Other Areas of Focus: Consumer and Enterprise Software, Mobile, Semiconductors, Enterprise Infrastructure
Total Capital: $2.5 billion
Notable Investments: Workday, Wealthfront, Payoneer, Swipely

 

Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $3.5 billion under management. The firm focuses on early-stage companies in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure as well as semiconductor sectors.

 

History

Former corporate logo (used until 2010)

Greylock was founded in 1965 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory, joined shortly thereafter by Charlie Waite. Elfers and Waite had both worked at American Research and Development Corporation. The original capital of $10 million was committed by a group of six families. The company opened a second fund in 1973.[3] The company opened its first office in Silicon Valley in 1999.[2]

Greylock closed its 12th fund in 2005 with $500 million.[3] In 2009, Greylock relocated its headquarters from the original Boston location to Silicon Valley.[4][5] Also in 2009, Greylock opened its 13th fund with $575 million.[6] In 2011, the 13th fund was increased to $1 billion.[7] The company organized a 14th fund in 2013 with $1 billion.[8]

In 2014, Greylock launched Communities, a series of networking events centered on areas like design, big data, infrastructure engineering, user growth, data science, and network security. The communities are composed of product managers, engineers, and technologists from Silicon Valley’s largest and fastest growing companies who meet once a quarter.[9] Their branch in Israel formerly known as Greylock IL was rebranded as 83north in January 2015.[10]

Investments

Greylock Partners focuses on the following areas of investment:

  • Consumer and Services: Financial, Healthcare, Internet, Mobile, Retail, Systems Integration
  • Enterprise Infrastructure: Compute/Data Center, Management, Networking, Security, Storage
  • Enterprise Software: Applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
  • Semiconductor: EDA, Networking, Wireless
Greylock Partners
Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies.
Categories  Consumer, Enterprise Software, Venture Capital
Headquarters Regions  San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast
Founded Date Oct 1965
Founders  Bill Elfers
Operating Status Active
Number of Employees 1-10
Child Hubs  Greylock Partners Alumni Founded Companies, Greylock Partners Portfolio Companies
Investor Type  Venture Capital
Investment Stage  Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Number of Exits 192
Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies. We invest in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).
Greylock Partners
Type
Private
Industry Private Equity
Founded 1965
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Founder Bill Elfers, Dan Gregory
Headquarters Menlo Park, California, U.S.[1]
Total assets $3.5 billion
Number of employees
30+
Website www.greylock.com