Overview
From client-server and mobile-cloud to big data and AI, platform shifts have been the one constant in technology. Greylock supports the founders who provide the tools, databases, and overall infrastructure that enable these ground-shaking shifts. We work with our partners to ascertain not just product-market fit but also product-go-to-market fit — understanding that great technology paired with great distribution is necessary to build the category-defining companies of the future.
We have a long history of partnering with founders building new systems of record at the data layer, new systems of engagement at the user layer, and new systems of intelligence powered by advances in AI. We have been lucky enough to work with visionary companies like AppDynamics, PureStorage, and cloud native companies including Chronosphere and AI native data companies like Rockset.
Bipul Sinha // Rubrik
Securing the World’s Data
Rubrik is on a mission to secure the world’s data. The company sits at the intersection of data, security, and AI. Founded in 2013, the cybersecurity company helps ensure organizations can operate in the presence of cyber attacks. Rubrik pioneered a platform of Zero Trust Data Security™ to provide cyber resilience amid all forms of cyber events including ransomware. Greylock’s partnership with Rubrik was early, in 2015, before the company’s first products were market-ready. Today, Rubrik is publicly traded (NYSE: RBRK), and has grown into a company with subscription annual recurring revenue north of $900 million, with more than 3,000 employees and over 6,000 customers.
Read MoreDavid Wadhwani, Jyoti Bansal & Bhaskar Sunkara // Appdynamics
Complete Application Awareness
In 2008, Greylock co-led the Series A in AppDynamics. The talented team redefined how enterprises monitored their application health. In 2015, David Wadhwani joined as CEO and AppDynamics transitioned to a multi-product, SaaS first company; growing ARR nearly 10x in four years and making it the fastest-growing APM vendor in the market. AppDynamics was less than two days away from IPO when Cisco acquired the company in 2017 for nearly $4 billion.
Learn MoreRob Skillington & Martin Mao // Chronosphere
Observability for a Cloud Native Generation
Chronosphere is the only observability platform that helps DevOps teams control the speed, scale, and complexity of a cloud native world. Chronosphere helps innovators like DoorDash, Snap, and Zillow reign in costs and quickly resolve application and infrastructure issues before they impact the customer experience and their bottom line. In 2019, Greylock led the first round of venture funding in Chronosphere.
Read MoreData & Analytics
New data and analytics to power the next generation of applications.
Cloud data cost management.
Founded by Google and Uber data and machine learning tech leads, Bluesky provides data-driven enterprises with intelligent workload optimization and cost governance tools that help them innovate while keeping costs under control. Bluesky’s first product provides unprecedented visibility into Snowflake workload usage and costs as well as actionable insights and workload specific recommendations for maximum optimization. Bluesky is used by well-known brands like Coinbase.
DOMAIN
Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Jerry Chen, Jason Risch
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Menlo Park, CA
Cloud data cost management.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Active
Investors
Jerry Chen, Jason Risch
The enterprise data cloud company.
DOMAIN
Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Series B
CURRENT STATUS
Public
INVESTORS
Aneel Bhusri
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Palo Alto, CA | USA
The enterprise data cloud company.
PARTNERED
Series B
Status
Public
Investors
Aneel Bhusri
The universal data lakehouse.
Onehouse delivers a new bedrock for your data, through a cloud-native managed lakehouse service built on Apache Hudi, which was created by the founding team while they were at Uber. Onehouse makes it possible to blend the ease of use of a warehouse with the scale of a data lake, by offering a seamless experience for engineers to get their data lakes up and running.
DOMAIN
Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Jerry Chen
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Menlo Park, CA | USA
The universal data lakehouse.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Active
Investors
Jerry Chen
Search and analytics for the AI era.
Rockset is a real-time database in the cloud. It builds real-time converged indexes on transactional data from other databases and event data from streams, and supports schemaless ingest, built-in transformations and declarative SQL over REST. It is used for building data applications that make intelligent decisions on real-time data.
DOMAIN
Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
Jerry Chen
LEADERSHIP
HQ
San Mateo, CA | USA
Search and analytics for the AI era.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Acquired
Investors
Jerry Chen
Developer Tools
New developer tools for the platform builders.
Headless no-code platform.
Builder.io is a drag and drop visual builder that works with any site, app, and ecommerce store. It enables digital teams — ecommerce, product, marketing, growth — to move faster by breaking free from constantly relying on developers.
DOMAIN
Infrastructure, Marketplace & Commerce, SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Mike Duboe, Corinne Riley
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Distributed
Headless no-code platform.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Active
Investors
Mike Duboe, Corinne Riley
Observability
Monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure.
Next generation application performance management.
DOMAIN
Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
Asheem Chandna
LEADERSHIP
HQ
San Francisco, CA | USA
Next generation application performance management.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Acquired
Investors
Asheem Chandna
Cloud native observability.
Chronosphere is the observability platform built for control in the modern, containerized world. Recognized as a leader by major analyst firms, Chronosphere empowers customers to focus on the data and insights that matter to reduce data complexity, optimize costs, and remediate issues faster.
DOMAIN
AI, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Jerry Chen
LEADERSHIP
HQ
New York, NY | USA
Observability Built for Control.
PARTNERED
Series A
Status
Active
Investors
Jerry Chen
Next generation log management and analytics company.
Sumo Logic is a leader in continuous intelligence, a new category of software, which enables organizations of all sizes address the data challenges and opportunities presented by digital transformation, modern applications, and cloud computing. The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ automates the collection, ingestion, and analysis of application, infrastructure, security, and IoT data to derive actionable insights within seconds. More than 2,000 customers rely on Sumo Logic to build, run, and secure their modern applications and cloud infrastructures.
DOMAIN
Cybersecurity, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
Joseph Ansanelli, Asheem Chandna
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Redwood City, CA | USA
Next generation log management and analytics company.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Acquired
Investors
Joseph Ansanelli, Asheem Chandna
AI & ML Infrastructure
Enabling AI powered applications and infrastructure.
Baseten is an ML Application Builder that simplifies the set-up of backends, frontends, and MLOps—so your models get used faster.
Baseten makes going from machine learning models to production-grade applications fast and easy. With Baseten, data science and machine learning teams can ship full-stack ML applications without backend, frontend or MLOps knowledge, enabling faster, smarter decision-making at their organizations.
DOMAIN
AI, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Corinne Riley
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Remote-first
Baseten is an ML Application Builder that simplifies the set-up of backends, frontends, and MLOps—so your models get used faster.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Active
Investors
Corinne Riley
The data framework for LLMs.
LlamaIndex offers a practical toolkit that empowers any developer to unlock the full capabilities and use cases of LLMs on top of their own data. It can be used with any LLM and offers an easy to use and optimized experience. The toolkit can handle a diverse range of data sources, from structured to semi-structured to unstructured text or even image data, and includes data ingestion, data indexing, and a query engine layer on top.
DOMAIN
AI, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Jerry Chen, Jason Risch
LEADERSHIP
HQ
San Francisco, CA
The data framework for LLMs.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Active
Investors
Jerry Chen, Jason Risch
Engineering platform for productionizing open-source AI.
Predibase puts state-of-the-art machine learning in the hands of data practitioners, using a new declarative approach pioneered by the founding team at leading companies like Uber and Apple. Built on top of open source foundations of Ludwig and Horovod, Predibase allows users to focus on the “what” of their ML models and allows the system to determine the “how” as users go from data to deployment of machine learning.
DOMAIN
AI, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Saam Motamedi, Jason Risch
LEADERSHIP
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Engineering platform for productionizing open-source AI.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Active
Investors
Saam Motamedi, Jason Risch
Data-centric AI platform.
Founded by a team spun out of the Stanford AI Lab, Snorkel AI’s mission is to make AI practical with a first-of-its-kind data-first machine learning platform, Snorkel Flow. Snorkel Flow uses a new programmatic approach to building and managing the training data that fuels AI, saving organizations time and enabling them to apply AI to new problems.
DOMAIN
AI, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Saam Motamedi
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Palo Alto, CA
Data-centric AI platform.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Active
Investors
Saam Motamedi
Analyze Machine Learning. Improve Model Quality. Build Trust.
Truera provides the first Model Intelligence platform, to help enterprises analyze machine learning, improve model quality and build trust. Powered by enterprise-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) Explainability technology based on six years of research at Carnegie Mellon University, Truera’s platform helps eliminate the black box surrounding widely used AI and ML technologies. This visibility leads to higher quality, explainable models that achieve measurable business results, address unfair bias, and ensure governance and compliance.
DOMAIN
AI, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
Jerry Chen
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Redwood City, CA | USA
Analyze Machine Learning. Improve Model Quality. Build Trust.
PARTNERED
Seed
Status
Acquired
Investors
Jerry Chen
Cloud Infrastructure
The building blocks of the new platforms.
Cloud-based secure network enterprise.
Cato is the world’s first SASE platform, converging SD-WAN and network security into a global cloud service. Cato optimizes and secures application access for all users and locations. Cato replaces legacy security products and network services with an agile and secure global network that is ready for whatever’s next.
DOMAIN
Cybersecurity, Infrastructure
FIRST PARTNERED
Series B
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Jerry Chen
LEADERSHIP
HQ
Tel-Aviv | IL
Cloud-based secure network enterprise.
PARTNERED
Series B
Status
Active
Investors
Jerry Chen