Greylock

About Greylock

In 2008, founder Jyoti Bansal had the foresight to realize that every enterprise was starting a journey toward digital transformation, and this shift would create a tremendous opportunity for the next generation of application performance management That year, Greylock, along with Lightspeed, co-led the Series A Jyoti recruited Bhaskar Sunkara as CTO, and together with a talented team, they 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

Your Place To Talk

Discord + Greylock Since B 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 56 million monthly active users, with more than 1 billion messages sent each day

Figma + Greylock since Series A CEO Dylan Field and CTO Evan Wallace co-founded Figma based on a simple, yet powerful insight: design is at the center of modern work, but design tools hadn’t evolved for more than three decades While documents, spreadsheets, engineering and more had all become collaborative, designer tools were still in the dark ages when it came to working together and across teams Figma provides a better way for product teams to design, prototype and collaborate, all in the browser Greylock partnered with Figma in 2015 and the product is now used by thousands of enterprise companies like Airbnb, Goldman Sachs, Google, Microsoft, NYT, Spotify, Uber and more

Nextdoor + Greylock since 2011 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 late 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 11 countries around the world

Okta + Greylock since Series B In 2009, co-founders Todd McKinnon and Frederic Kerrest started a cloud-based identity company to help large enterprises better manage, control and secure the applications that they use In 2011, Greylock partnered with Okta, and the company went public in 2017 (Nasdaq: OKTA) Today, almost 8,000 organizations trust Okta to help protect the identities of their workforces and customers

Palo Alto Networks + Greylock Since Seed In 2005, founder Nir Zuk set out on a mission: disrupt the network security status quo and re-invent the firewall Greylock, along with Sequoia Capital, partnered with Palo Alto Networks at the very beginning with a $250K seed check Nir started from a desk at the Greylock offices Rajiv Batra and Lee Klarich joined Nir, and they delivered the first product in 2007 – a “next generation firewall” that could identify and provide fine-grained control of applications In 2012, CEO Mark McLaughlin led the company through an IPO (NYSE: PANW) and 10x revenue growth In 2018, Nikesh Arora joined as CEO and began transforming the company from on-premise to cloud Today, PANW is a global cybersecurity leader with more than 70,000 customers and $3 49 billion in billings in FY19

Rubrik + Greylock since Series B

Analyze Your Data Differently

Sumo Logic + Greylock Since Seed In 2010, co-founders Christian Beedgen and Kumar Saurabh initiated Sumo Logic on a secular bet: empower digital business through analytics delivered completely as a cloud-based service They were joined by Bruno Kurtic, and built an offering to deliver continuous intelligence – real-time insights delivered as a service – from a cloud-native platform Greylock invested before the company had a name To receive the funding via wire, the founders named the company after Christian’s dog, “Sumo ” In 2014, Ramin Sayar joined as CEO Sumo Logic went public in 2020 (Nasdaq: SUMO), and today, the company is a fast growing leader in continuous intelligence, with more than 2,000 customers around the world

Enterprise Cloud Applications for Finance and HR

Workday + Greylock Since Seed In 2005, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield met for brunch at the Jax Truckee Diner They decided to form a company that would sell cloud-based applications for finance and HR, which became known as Workday Greylock partnered with the co-founders from the beginning, and in 2012, Workday (NASDAQ: WDAY) went public Today, the company is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications, delivering financial management, human capital management, planning, and analytics applications designed for the world’s largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies

The Professional Social Network

LinkedIn + Greylock Since Series B 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 675 million members and has offices around the globe

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