Greylock Partners
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| legal form | Limited partnership |
| founding | 1965 |
| Seat | Menlo Park, California , US |
| management | Bill Elfers, Dan Gregory |
| Number of employees | 30+ |
| Website | www.greylock.com |
Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firms, founded in 1965, with over $ 2 billion in committed capital. The company focuses on startups in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure, and semiconductor sectors.
Today Greylock has offices in the Bay Area , Cambridge , Israel and India .
Greylock was founded in 1965 by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory, shortly afterwards Charlie Waite joined. Bill and Charlie both worked at American Research and Development Corporation , one of the nation's first venture capital firms, while Dan was an investment manager at John P. Chase. The original capital ($ 9 million total) came from a group of six prominent families, all of whom are still investors in Greylock. Over the next 43 years, Greylock has achieved a number of partnerships, with current committed capital of more than $ 2 billion, and has helped build over 300 startups.
financing
Greylock Partners was founded in a series of thirteen limited partnerships , beginning in 1965. In the following years until 2009, more partners were added. On November 2, 2009, Greylock announced that they had hired Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn co-founder, as a partner. Greylock launched Greylock Israel, a separate fund for Israel, in 2006. Tied capital for the Greylock partnerships generated more than $ 2 billion.
Significant investments
Greylocks has invested in Airbnb , Ascend Communications , CipherTrust , Data Domain , Digg , Discourse , Facebook , Farecast , LinkedIn , SunEdison , Typesafe , Xircom , Instagram , Zipcar , Payoneer , AppDynamics and Sumo Logic , among others .
Further engagements
- William W. Helman, a partner in the company, is a member of the board of directors of Harvard Management Company .
- The final line from Aneel Bhusri's Forbes profile, a Greylock partner, “Personal distraction: obsessed with the Boston Red Sox .” Bhursi was the vice chairman of PeopleSoft before joining Greylock.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boston's Greylock Partners moves to Silicon Valley ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Members of the Board of Directors," Harvard Management Website. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
- ↑ "The Midas List: # 8 Aneel Bhusri" , Forbes , January 29th 2009, 6:00 PM ET. Retrieved March 20, 2011.
