Greylock

Summary

Greylock Partners is the famous VC, which was founded in 1965. The company was established in North America in United States. The main department of described VC is located in the Menlo Park.

The fund was created by Bill Elfers. We also calculated 16 valuable employees in our database.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 5-6 partakers. Despite the Greylock Partners, startups are often financed by Marc Benioff, Khosla Ventures, GV. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are True Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners, Insight Partners. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Pilot House Ventures, Matrix Partners, Icon Ventures.

For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United States. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Facebook, Airbnb, LinkedIn. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Mobile, E-Commerce. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 2-3 years to receive the investment from the fund.

Deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 3 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The typical startup value when the investment from Greylock Partners is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Opposing the other organizations, this Greylock Partners works on 1 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The important activity for fund was in 2012. Despite it in 2019 the fund had an activity. The fund is constantly included in 25-48 deals per year. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.