We at Greylock are always searching for exceptional founders to help initiate and/or build the next iconic technology business with.
Today, we’re sharing a list of areas that we believe are ripe for innovation. If you are starting a company in any of these areas, we would love to chat with you.
While these are some areas we’ve spent time thinking about, we love when an entrepreneur introduces us to a thesis we’ve never imagined before. If you are thinking about starting a company, consider doing so with Greylock Edge, a bespoke 3-month company-building program designed to advance select pre-idea, pre-seed and seed founders from inception to product-market fit, with fully flexible financing. Apply here or reach out directly to any Greylock investor for more info.
Jacob Andreou
- AI-enabled utilities that transform broadly-applicable creative workflows
- AI-enabled commerce or travel discovery focused on faster, easier UX
- Social experiences that utilize games and/or AI to bring friends together
Asheem Chandna
- Applying agentic frameworks to re-imagine IT technology workflows
- Next generation IGA (identity governance and administration)
- AI-native data platforms
Jerry Chen
- AI data engineer to make building data pipelines and ETL jobs easier
- AI powered business intelligence, both for horizontal use cases but also vertical or industry specific BI solutions
Mike Duboe
- The modern marketing (SEO, advertising, measurement, identity) stack in the post-cookie, LLM-native world
- Vertical AI as a wedge to bring commerce in old-school verticals online
- Infrastructure to support cross-border ecommerce, in a world where trends are increasingly global and fast-moving
- Full-stack services firms that can operate with software-like margins due to AI
Christine Kim
- Vertical AI agents automating professional services work in legal, financial services, accounting and tax
- Vertical voice agents to automate the front desk phones or call centers of offline industries
- Generative 3D or CAD design for the physical world (industrial, manufacturing, architecture and construction)
Saam Motamedi
- Is the future of sales just an AE + AI? AI agents for pipeline generation, deal execution, sales engineering, and customer success
- Reimagining software development lifecycle in the era of generative AI – testing, debugging, incident resolution, security, and more
- Robust and reliable agentic automation for business workflows – RPA that really works
Seth Rosenberg
- AI agents for financial services compliance, with a focus on internal communications
- Stablecoin enablement for cross border payments
- AI agents to automate workflow for top 20 accounting firms
- AI agents to automate investment analysis for private equity
Corinne Riley
- Using AI for sales outbound automation: from identifying new prospects, generating outreach, to making the first call and creating custom sales enablement materials based on the customer persona
- What can shorten time to merge cycles for engineers? Agentic systems that helps with the code review process without getting in an engineers’ way
- Voice agents that can be used for training sales reps, or even provide sales engineering capabilities on calls
Jason Risch
- Automation of data analyst/engineer work via agents
- Automation of identity governance and administration workflows via agents
- Testing and monitoring AI applications for security vulnerabilities and unwanted behaviors
