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David Sze

Advisory Partner

David invests in consumer media, gaming and social platforms that have the potential to connect millions of people.

David has led some of Greylock’s most notable investments including Facebook, Roblox, LinkedIn, Nextdoor, and Pandora. He is currently involved at the board level at Discord, Nextdoor, and Caavo. He joined Greylock as an investor in 2000, bringing to the firm a strong belief in the promise of media, mobile and network effect business convergence. That conviction led to some of David’s most successful and surprising bets, and continues to guide his investment thesis today.

David has consistently been at the forefront of innovation in the consumer landscape. Prior to Greylock, David spent more than seven years as a product manager and developer for consumer internet, media and gaming organizations ranging from startup to publicly traded companies. David was SVP of Product Strategy at one of the first search pioneers, Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite starting in 1996, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and VP of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in interactive entertainment — in product marketing at Electronic Arts and development at Crystal Dynamics. He started his career in management consulting for Marakon Associates and The Boston Consulting Group, and also spent time at HBO.

David has been frequently named to the Forbes Midas List. He is a member of the Northern Lights Venture Capital Board of Advisors and oversees Greylock’s investments in those funds. He is also a Trustee of Yale University and Rockefeller University. He holds a BA from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Portfolio Companies

Previous Investments

Congrats, Nextdoor!

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Congratulations Roblox! (NYSE: RBLX)

Cutting-edge game platform makes public market debut

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Mike Duboe Is Greylock’s New General Partner

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Our Investment in Roblox

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Our Investment in Discord

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Caavo Logo

Unifying all entertainment devices, services, and control.

Caavo’s mission is to unite entertainment for people and unite people through entertainment. Founded in 2015 by Andrew Einaudi, Ashish Aggarwal, Vinod Gopinath, and the late Blake Krikorian, Caavo’s technology is protected by more than 80 patents and patents-pending. Caavo Control Center is the first AI-powered smart remote + home theater hub that makes it easy to control everything connected to your TV with one remote.

DOMAIN

Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Series A

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Andrew Einaudi, CEO & Co-Founder

Ashish Aggarwal, Co-Founder

Vinod Gopinath, Co-Founder

HQ

San Francisco, CA | USA

Discord Logo

Your place to talk.

Founder Jason Citron and his team started their company, Hammer & Chisel in 2012. They were building Fates Forever, a new MOBA game for tablets, and were increasingly frustrated by the products they were using to chat while playing their favorite PC games. So in 2015 Jason and Stan Vishnevskiy launched Discord, a communications platform that helps friends come together around the games they love, and it saw immediate adoption and growth. Greylock partnered with Discord in 2016, and today the company has more than 56M monthly active users, with more than 1B messages sent each day.

DOMAIN

Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce

FIRST PARTNERED

Series D

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Josh Elman, David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Jason Citron, CEO & Founder

HQ

San Francisco, CA | USA

facebook logo

The world’s leading social network.

Facebook is an online social networking service that allows its users to connect with friends and family as well as make new connections. It provides its users with the ability to create a profile, update information, add images, send friend requests, and accept requests from other users. Its features include status update, photo tagging and sharing, and more.

DOMAIN

Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Series B

CURRENT STATUS

Public

INVESTORS

David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO & Founder

Sheryl Sandberg, COO

HQ

Menlo Park, CA | USA

inflection logo

An AI studio driven to create a personal intelligence for everyone.

Inflection is an AI studio, incubated at Greylock. Inflection is driven by a simple mission: to create a personal intelligence for everyone.

DOMAIN

AI, Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Seed

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Reid Hoffman, David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Sean White, CEO

Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder

HQ

Distributed

linkedin logo

The world’s leading social network.

With millions of jobs on LinkedIn, find one meant for you.
Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 675+ million members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network and leads a diversified business with revenues from membership subscriptions, advertising sales and recruitment solutions. In December 2016, Microsoft completed its acquisition of LinkedIn, bringing together the world’s leading professional cloud and the world’s leading professional network.

DOMAIN

Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Series B

CURRENT STATUS

Acquired

INVESTORS

David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Jeff Weiner, CEO

Reid Hoffman, Founder

Allen Blue, Co-Founder

Konstantin Guericke, Co-Founder

Eric Ly, Co-Founder

Jean-Luc Vaillant, Co-Founder

HQ

Sunnyvale, CA | USA

Medium Logo

Everyone's stories and ideas.

Medium is a subscription publishing platform with 120 million monthly readers. It delivers journalistic rigor alongside insights from thousands of publications and diverse voices from across the web in an elegant, personalized, and entirely ad-free experience.

DOMAIN

Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Series A

CURRENT STATUS

Active

INVESTORS

Josh Elman, David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Tony Stubblebine, CEO

HQ

San Francisco, CA | USA

musically logo

Instant music video.

DOMAIN

Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Series A

CURRENT STATUS

Acquired

INVESTORS

Josh Elman, David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Alex Zhu, CEO & Co-Founder

HQ

Shanghai | China

Nextdoor Logo

Private social network for your neighborhood.

Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services. Nextdoor’s purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Neighbors rely on Nextdoor in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, and Canada.

DOMAIN

Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Series C

CURRENT STATUS

Public

INVESTORS

David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Nirav Tolia, Founder and CEO

HQ

San Francisco, CA | USA

pandora logo
DOMAIN

Consumer

FIRST PARTNERED

Series F

CURRENT STATUS

Acquired

INVESTORS

David Sze

LEADERSHIP

Tim Westergren, Founder

HQ

Oakland, CA | USA

roblox logo

Next generation entertainment platform.

Roblox’s mission is to bring the world together through play. We enable anyone to imagine, create, and have fun with friends as they explore millions of immersive 3D experiences, all built by a global community of developers.

DOMAIN

Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce

FIRST PARTNERED

Series F

CURRENT STATUS

Public

INVESTORS

Seth Rosenberg, David Sze

LEADERSHIP

David Baszucki, CEO & Co-Founder

HQ

San Mateo, CA | USA

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