Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners is one of the oldest venture capital firm, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over two billion dollars. The company focuses on start -ups in the consumer, enterprise software and infrastructure, as well as semiconductor sector.

Today, Greylock operates offices in the Bay Area, Cambridge, Israel and India.

Greylock was founded in 1965 by Bill Elfers and Dan Gregory, shortly after Charlie Waite joined. Bill and Charlie both had at American Research and Development Corporation, one of the nation's first companies in the venture capital segment, while Dan was an Investment Manager at John P. Chase. The original capital ( $ 9,000,000 total ) came from a group of six prominent families, all of them are still investors Greylock. In the following 43 years, Greylock has acquired a number of partnerships, with current committed capital of more than $ 2 billion and has been involved in the construction of more than 300 start-up companies.

Financing

Greylock Partners was established in a series of thirteen partnerships, beginning in 1965. Then additional partners were added in the following years until 2009. November 2, 2009 announced Greylock Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co -Founder to have engaged as partners. Greylock launched in 2006, Greylock Israel, a separate fund for Israel. Fixed capital for the Greylock partnerships and generating more than 2 billion dollars.

Major investments

Greylocks has invested in Airbnb, Ascend Communications, CipherTrust, Data Domain, Digg, Facebook, Farecast, Linkedin, SunEdison, Typesafe, Xircom, Instagram, Zipcar, Payoneer, AppDynamics and Sumo Logic.

Other engagements

• William W. Helman, a partner in the company, is a board member of the Harvard Management Company.
• The last line of Aneel Bhusris Forbes profile, a partner of Greylock: "Personal distraction: obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. " Bhursi was vice chairman at PeopleSoft before joining Greylock.