Greylock Partners
Greylock was founded in 1965, one of the few venture firms that predates Silicon Valley. We invest selectively and partner deeply with the founders we back. Each partner takes on only one to two new investments a year because the work requires depth. We bring the full attention, network, and resources of Greylock to every partnership. Across more than 100 IPOs and over 250 acquisitions, we have partnered with generational companies including Airbnb, Figma, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Palo Alto Networks. Many defining companies were built inside our own offices before they had a name. Today, AI has made the map blank again. We believe many of the defining companies of this era have yet to be built. We are builders backing outliers, aiming to be a founder’s first believer and long-term partner.www.greylock.com
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Oct 31, 2026
DJ PatilGUEST
Hollywood has done us a tremendous service in talking about what is out there.
DJ PatilGUEST
I can't tell you how many times at Greylock, where a venture firm may have seen a lot of the companies we help out with, like LinkedIn, Facebook, Dropbox, Tumblr, a lot of these type of companies, where people will suddenly come in and they'll say, well, we're the money ball of this.
DJ PatilGUEST
I mean, that's sort of like a standard pitch.
DJ PatilGUEST
People talk, well, that's the money ball of that.
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They're doing everything based on their own models.
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Upwind is a San Francisco startup that uses AI to secure cloud infrastructure, and the company has raised a $400 million Series C round at a $3.8 billion valuation, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing packers, including Greylock Partners and Kraft Ventures.
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The round comes nine months after Upwind closed its previous $250 million financing at a $1.5 billion valuation.
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The fresh funding, which has been in the works for months, nearly fell apart after Datadog attempted to buy the company, according to a person familiar with Upwind.
Rick SpairHOST
Security startups stay hot.
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Cloud security startup Upwind has raised $400 million in a Series C round at a $3.8 billion valuation, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with Greylock Partners and Kraft Ventures participating.
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That is more than double the $1.5 billion valuation it carried just nine months ago.
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TechCrunch reports the round nearly fell apart when Datadog tried to acquire the company, but Upwind walked away from that offer to raise independently.
Reid HoffmanHOST
Il disait : Je suis curieux de comprendre ce qui se passe dans l'investissement technologique.
Reid HoffmanHOST
Il est littéralement venu dans nos bureaux chez Greylock en disant : Je veux discuter avec vous parce que je veux comprendre ce que vous faites.
Reid HoffmanHOST
C'est le genre de dirigeant qui dit : Tiens, j'aimerais en apprendre davantage sur tel ou tel sujet.
Reid HoffmanHOST
J'ai toujours beaucoup plus de sympathie pour les dirigeants qui adoptent cette attitude, même lorsque je ne suis pas d'accord avec eux.
Aria FingerHOST
在每个行业里，你总会担心监管机构和被监管的公司走得太近。但我觉得，尤其是在 AI 领域，我们需要政界人士和监管者真正理解这项技术。他们和前沿实验室负责人进行对话，其实是非常积极的，因为我们必须把这项监管做对。
Reid HoffmanHOST
没错，而且与多家公司交流很重要，因为这些公司彼此竞争，观点也各不相同。有些事情上，这些公司作为一个整体有共同的利益，或者有他们会忽略的盲点。这也是为什么你还要跟非政府组织、跟大学交流，这些对话你都应该有。我知道 Gavin 确实在这么做，因为我也见过他出现在斯坦福大学与教授们交谈。我第一次认识 Gavin 就是这样，当时他说我对科技投资领域正在发生什么很好奇，他真的亲自来我们 Greylock 的办公室说我想跟你聊聊这个，因为我想了解你们在做什么。他这样的领导者会说，嘿，我想多了解一下这方面，还有那个领域。每当遇到这种情况，我总是更有好感，哪怕我并不同意这位领导者的观点。有这种求知好奇心的政治人物仍然不够多。
Aria FingerHOST
Reid，非常感谢你今天能来。
Reid HoffmanHOST
也谢谢你，每次跟你聊天都很愉快。
Aria FingerHOST
Reid, so lovely to be here in person with you for this episode of Reid Riffs.
Reid HoffmanHOST
And it's great that it's in Silicon Valley here in the Greylock offices.
Aria FingerHOST
Absolutely.
Aria FingerHOST
Silicon Valley, my second favorite place after New York.
Ross FubiniGUEST
When we went to do the A round, I literally couldn't get firms to take a meeting.
Ross FubiniGUEST
Sequoia, Greylock, pick an example.
Ross FubiniGUEST
Actively, nah, we wouldn't do that.
Suffiyan MalikHOST
What's the secret to looking that young?
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Ross FubiniGUEST
And I'm lucky enough to be part of those discussions and do that investment.
Ross FubiniGUEST
That said, when we went to do the A round, I literally couldn't get firms to take a meeting.
Ross FubiniGUEST
Sequoia, Greylock, pick an example.
Ross FubiniGUEST
They actively, no, we wouldn't do that.
Ravi BelaniHOST
And then after Abnormal, he's now become the CEO of Cogent Security, which is really using AI to understand vulnerabilities and address security vulnerabilities, which is a huge, obviously, emerging space at the intersection of AI and security.
Ravi BelaniHOST
Cogent's gone on to raise over $50 million from some of the best funds in Silicon Valley, from Greylock and Bain Capital.
Ravi BelaniHOST
And so we're incredibly excited to welcome Vineet to ETL.
Ravi BelaniHOST
And if everybody's in the back, please have a seat.
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Ravi BelaniHOST
I'm going to open it up, Gang, for Q&A in one moment.
Ravi BelaniHOST
So we're going to get the mic set up.
Ravi BelaniHOST
Can you walk through the reality of how that actually works to close $53 million from Greylock and Bain and unpack that for us?
Vineet EdupugantiGUEST
It was actually a pretty tight process.
Evan ReiserHOST
I'm Evan Reiser, the founder and CEO of Abnormal AI.
Evan ReiserHOST
And I'm Sam Motamedi, a general partner at Greylock Partners.
Evan ReiserHOST
Today, I'm talking with Sean Perry, chief information officer at Kelly.
Evan ReiserHOST
Founded in 1946, Kelly helped create the modern staffing industry back when it sent workers to client offices with typewriters.
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Saam MotamediHOST
That was Sean Perry, Chief Information Officer at Kelly.
Saam MotamediHOST
Thanks for listening to Enterprise AI Innovators.
Saam MotamediHOST
I'm Sam Motamedi, a general partner at Greylock Partners.
Evan ReiserHOST
And I'm Evan Reiser, the founder and CEO of Abnormal AI.
Matt MartinGUEST
If you can deliver that, I will buy it." We raised our seed round from Accel Partners in 2017, and we were focused at that point of trying to unlock, like, this initial version of the product that would deliver value and allow us to expand.
Matt MartinGUEST
And when we raised our A round from Greylock Partners, we weren't quite there yet.
Matt MartinGUEST
We had some initial traction.
Matt MartinGUEST
The results looked incredibly promising in terms of what we could drive, but it just wasn't there, so we hadn't released it publicly yet.
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