Consumer
Finding new ways to bring lasting value to people.
Overview
Roblox. Discord. Instagram. LinkedIn. Facebook. These are just a few of the iconic companies Greylock backed in their early days, and today we’re no less excited about the future of the rapidly changing consumer tech space. With AI poised to unlock new experiences in everything from social, media, and entertainment to health and wellness, we’ll see a plethora of AI-native consumer products offering innovative solutions and enduring value in ways that previously seemed impossible. We’re seeking founders with a bold vision of what’s missing in the world and a clear perspective about why it needs to exist.
Jason Citron // Discord
Your Place to Talk
CEO and Co-founder Jason Citron and his team started their company, Hammer & Chisel in 2012. They were building Fates Forever, a 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 millions of monthly active users, with billions of messages sent each day.
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Reid Hoffman // LinkedIn
The Professional Social Network
In 2003, Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn with the purpose of helping the world’s professionals to be more productive and successful, and to transform the way companies hire, learn, market and sell. Greylock partnered with LinkedIn in 2004, when the company had fewer than 1 million members. LinkedIn went public in 2011 (Nasdaq: LI) and in 2016, the company was acquired by Microsoft for $26.5 billion. Today, LinkedIn has more than 930 million members in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
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Nirav Tolia // Nextdoor
The Neighborhood Hub
Co-founders Nirav Tolia, Sarah Leary, and Prakash Janakiraman founded Nextdoor after seeing research that many people do not know their neighbors by name. They sought out to build a neighborhood hub that would cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. In 2011, Greylock partnered with Nextdoor, and in 2018, Sarah Friar was appointed CEO. The company went public in 2021 (NYSE: KIND) and today, Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services in many countries around the world.
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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
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
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
Social Networks
Connecting people with common interests and each other.
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
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
Fast beautiful photo sharing.
DOMAIN
Consumer
FIRST PARTNERED
Series B
CURRENT STATUS
Acquired
INVESTORS
John Lilly
LEADERSHIP
Kevin Systrom, CEO & Co-Founder
Mike Krieger, Co-Founder
HQ
Menlo Park, CA | USA
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
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
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
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
Creator Platforms
Empowering content management, sharing and monetization through dynamic networks.
Home to the next generation of digital creators.
Magic Eden is the #1 NFT marketplace on Solana. Our mission is to be the destination for discovering, trading, and creating NFTs. In its first two months since launch, Magic Eden has done ~$200M in trading volume to become the dominant NFT platform on Solana.
DOMAIN
Fintech & Crypto, Marketplace & Commerce
FIRST PARTNERED
Series A
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Mike Duboe, Christine Kim
LEADERSHIP
Zhouxun Yin, Co-Founder
Jack Lu, Co-Founder
HQ
Mountain View, CA | USA
Your Home for NFT Media.
https://www.pinata.cloud/Pinata’s mission is to help creators provide an experience worth paying for.
DOMAIN
Fintech & Crypto, SaaS
FIRST PARTNERED
Seed
CURRENT STATUS
Active
INVESTORS
Mike Duboe, Christine Kim
LEADERSHIP
Kyle Tut, CEO
Matt Ober, CTO
