Founded in Boston in 1965 by Bill Elfers, who left Georges Doriot's ARD, the world's first institutional VC firm, joined by Dan Gregory and Charlie Waite. One of the oldest venture partnerships still operating, it shifted its center of gravity to Silicon Valley in the 2000s and brought on operators like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman.
Concentrated early-stage (seed and Series A), board-heavy, with former founders and operators as partners.
Enterprise software, AI, cybersecurity, consumer
LinkedIn, Facebook, Airbnb, Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Figma, Pandora
LinkedIn ($26.2B to Microsoft), Workday IPO, Facebook IPO, Figma IPO
Greylock traces its lineage directly to American Research and Development, the 1946 firm that invented institutional venture capital.
| Company | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Resolve AI DevTools | 1 round | $125M |
| Braintrust DevTools | 1 round | $80M |
| Inventa Marketplace | 1 round, 1 led | $55M |
| Axiamatic AI | 1 round, 1 led | $54M |
| Wisetack Fintech | 1 round | $45M |
| Fable Cybersecurity | 1 round | $24.5M |
| Utmost HR Tech | 1 round | $21M |
| Pepper FoodTech | 1 round | $16M |