Greylock

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Wellesley and San Francisco. The firm specializes in investing across all stages of company development, particularly focusing on seed and early-stage investments, as well as growth capital. Greylock primarily targets consumer and enterprise software sectors, with interests spanning various industries, including fintech, healthcare, media, and cloud applications. The firm typically invests between $50,000 and $500,000 in seed-stage companies, $1 million to $10 million in early-stage firms, and $25 million to $200 million in later-stage companies. Greylock is known for backing entrepreneurs who innovate and disrupt markets, having invested in notable companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and LinkedIn. The firm prefers to take board seats in its portfolio companies and seeks opportunities primarily in the United States, India, China, Europe, and Israel.

Michael Ahern

Recruiting Partner

Jacob Andreou

General Partner

Joseph Ansanelli

Partner

Asheem Chandna

Partner

Jerry Chen

Partner

Gerald Chen

Partner

John Delaney

Principal

Mike Duboe

General Partner

Roger Evans

Partner

Maya Frai

Investor

Tom Frangione

COO

Sarah Guo

Board Partner

Lee Haney

Partner and Head of CXO Partnerships

William Helman

Partner

Bob Henderson

Special Limited Partner

William Kaiser

Partner

Christine Kim

Partner

John Lilly

Venture Partner

Corinne Riley

Partner

Jason Risch

Investor

Seth Rosenberg

Partner

James Slavet

Venture Partner

Dave Strohm

Partner

David N. Strohm

Venture Partner

Donald A. Sullivan

Administrative Partner

Don Sullivan

Partner

David Thacker

Venture Partner

Peter Thorne

Investor

David Wadhwani

Venture Partner

Past deals in Database

Predibase

Series A in 2022
Predibase is a company that specializes in creating a machine learning platform aimed at simplifying the development of high-performance, low-code machine learning algorithms. This platform enables engineers and data practitioners to specify their AI system requirements in a straightforward manner, allowing the system to determine how to meet those needs. By enabling users to define AI pipelines with minimal code, Predibase significantly reduces the time and effort involved in machine learning project development, making advanced machine learning techniques more accessible to a wider range of professionals.

Onehouse

Seed Round in 2022
Onehouse offers a cloud-native managed lakehouse platform that integrates the capabilities of data lakes and data warehouses. Built on Apache Hudi, this service allows users to quickly establish their data lake, process information efficiently, and maintain ownership of their data in open formats, avoiding vendor lock-in. The platform is designed for seamless interoperability with various query engines, providing businesses with a self-managing data layer that optimizes data management for enhanced processing speed while delivering the cost and scalability benefits associated with data lakes.

Rockset

Series B in 2020
Rockset, Inc. is a software company established in 2016 and located in San Mateo, California. It specializes in providing a cloud data infrastructure that features a serverless search and analytics engine. The platform allows users to build applications without the need for complex data pipelines or preparation, operating directly on raw data. By continuously syncing new data from various sources without requiring a fixed schema, Rockset enables clients to make informed, data-driven decisions using familiar SQL. The company's mission is to empower enterprises to effectively harness all their data for better insights and enhanced application performance.

Instabase

Series B in 2019
Instabase, Inc. is a technology company that offers a platform for businesses to create customizable applications aimed at automating various operational tasks. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, it provides services such as optical character recognition, data classification and extraction, and natural language processing. The platform allows organizations to develop complex applications tailored to their specific needs, such as income verification and contract analysis, by efficiently processing documents like pay stubs and bank statements. Additionally, Instabase features an app store that offers a range of pre-packaged business applications across different industries, facilitating quick deployment and integration into existing workflows. This approach enables institutions to embed intelligence into their systems, ultimately driving transformation and enhancing productivity.

Rockset

Series A in 2018
Rockset, Inc. is a software company established in 2016 and located in San Mateo, California. It specializes in providing a cloud data infrastructure that features a serverless search and analytics engine. The platform allows users to build applications without the need for complex data pipelines or preparation, operating directly on raw data. By continuously syncing new data from various sources without requiring a fixed schema, Rockset enables clients to make informed, data-driven decisions using familiar SQL. The company's mission is to empower enterprises to effectively harness all their data for better insights and enhanced application performance.

DIRT Protocol

Seed Round in 2018
DIRT Protocol, founded in 2017 and based in the United States, offers a platform for decentralized curation of trusted data sets. The protocol utilizes a token staking mechanism to promote honesty and accuracy in information sharing, distinguishing itself from traditional Token Curated Registries. Users can contribute data similarly to a collaborative platform like Wikipedia, but must stake tokens to ensure accountability. This economic incentive fosters a system where incorrect information can be challenged, allowing users to earn tokens for identifying inaccuracies. By organizing information registries, DIRT Protocol aims to maintain high-quality data while making it freely accessible, thereby reducing the prevalence of misinformation.

Instabase

Series A in 2017
Instabase, Inc. is a technology company that offers a platform for businesses to create customizable applications aimed at automating various operational tasks. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, it provides services such as optical character recognition, data classification and extraction, and natural language processing. The platform allows organizations to develop complex applications tailored to their specific needs, such as income verification and contract analysis, by efficiently processing documents like pay stubs and bank statements. Additionally, Instabase features an app store that offers a range of pre-packaged business applications across different industries, facilitating quick deployment and integration into existing workflows. This approach enables institutions to embed intelligence into their systems, ultimately driving transformation and enhancing productivity.

Attic Labs

Series A in 2016
Attic Labs, Inc. is a software company based in San Francisco, established in 2015 and known for its development of Noms, an open-source decentralized database. Noms facilitates the storage, movement, and collaboration of large-scale structured data, allowing businesses to subscribe to data streams similar to how consumers subscribe to RSS feeds. This innovation enables retailers, for example, to receive weekly updates on same-store sales without the need for manual data downloads. The software draws inspiration from various projects and is designed to support large data sets, enabling users to replicate and edit data offline across multiple machines. Noms incorporates versioning, ensuring that edits do not overwrite previous data, thus simplifying data retrieval when necessary. Attic Labs was acquired by Quip, Inc. in January 2018.

Instabase

Seed Round in 2015
Instabase, Inc. is a technology company that offers a platform for businesses to create customizable applications aimed at automating various operational tasks. Founded in 2015 and based in San Francisco, it provides services such as optical character recognition, data classification and extraction, and natural language processing. The platform allows organizations to develop complex applications tailored to their specific needs, such as income verification and contract analysis, by efficiently processing documents like pay stubs and bank statements. Additionally, Instabase features an app store that offers a range of pre-packaged business applications across different industries, facilitating quick deployment and integration into existing workflows. This approach enables institutions to embed intelligence into their systems, ultimately driving transformation and enhancing productivity.

Delphix

Series D in 2015
Delphix Corp. provides Data as a Service solutions that support enterprises in managing and accelerating various application projects, including ERP rollouts and cloud migrations. The company offers a software platform that creates secure virtual copies of databases, applications, and file systems, thereby streamlining test data management and facilitating advanced DevOps practices. Its products, including specialized solutions for SAP and Oracle EBS, significantly reduce the time and cost associated with system upgrades and ongoing ownership. Delphix's platform integrates with a wide range of systems, from mainframes to cloud environments, enabling organizations to overcome data-related bottlenecks and enhance operational efficiency. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix has established strategic partnerships with major firms, contributing to its global reach and ability to support diverse industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing. The company also has a research and development center in Delhi, India, enabling further innovation in data management solutions.

Delphix

Series C in 2012
Delphix Corp. provides Data as a Service solutions that support enterprises in managing and accelerating various application projects, including ERP rollouts and cloud migrations. The company offers a software platform that creates secure virtual copies of databases, applications, and file systems, thereby streamlining test data management and facilitating advanced DevOps practices. Its products, including specialized solutions for SAP and Oracle EBS, significantly reduce the time and cost associated with system upgrades and ongoing ownership. Delphix's platform integrates with a wide range of systems, from mainframes to cloud environments, enabling organizations to overcome data-related bottlenecks and enhance operational efficiency. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix has established strategic partnerships with major firms, contributing to its global reach and ability to support diverse industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing. The company also has a research and development center in Delhi, India, enabling further innovation in data management solutions.

Realm

Seed Round in 2011
Realm ApS is a mobile database company that provides a platform designed to streamline application development by replacing traditional databases like SQLite and Core Data. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with an additional office in San Francisco, Realm offers a solution that enhances performance and user experience through features such as querying, relationships, graphs, and thread safety. The database is available on Android, iOS, and OSX platforms, allowing for memory-efficient data access via Realm objects. As of May 2019, Realm operates as a subsidiary of MongoDB, Inc. The platform significantly reduces the amount of code developers need to write, enabling them to create applications more quickly and efficiently.

Delphix

Series B in 2010
Delphix Corp. provides Data as a Service solutions that support enterprises in managing and accelerating various application projects, including ERP rollouts and cloud migrations. The company offers a software platform that creates secure virtual copies of databases, applications, and file systems, thereby streamlining test data management and facilitating advanced DevOps practices. Its products, including specialized solutions for SAP and Oracle EBS, significantly reduce the time and cost associated with system upgrades and ongoing ownership. Delphix's platform integrates with a wide range of systems, from mainframes to cloud environments, enabling organizations to overcome data-related bottlenecks and enhance operational efficiency. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix has established strategic partnerships with major firms, contributing to its global reach and ability to support diverse industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing. The company also has a research and development center in Delhi, India, enabling further innovation in data management solutions.

Delphix

Series A in 2009
Delphix Corp. provides Data as a Service solutions that support enterprises in managing and accelerating various application projects, including ERP rollouts and cloud migrations. The company offers a software platform that creates secure virtual copies of databases, applications, and file systems, thereby streamlining test data management and facilitating advanced DevOps practices. Its products, including specialized solutions for SAP and Oracle EBS, significantly reduce the time and cost associated with system upgrades and ongoing ownership. Delphix's platform integrates with a wide range of systems, from mainframes to cloud environments, enabling organizations to overcome data-related bottlenecks and enhance operational efficiency. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Delphix has established strategic partnerships with major firms, contributing to its global reach and ability to support diverse industries, including financial services, telecommunications, and manufacturing. The company also has a research and development center in Delhi, India, enabling further innovation in data management solutions.

Kickfire Analytics

Series B in 2008
Kickfire makes an analytic appliance for the MySQL data warehouse market. With 11 million active installations, MySQL is the world's most popular open source database and its adoption is accelerating. As the amount of data stored in MySQL grows, so too does the requirement to analyze this data for business decision making. However, the technologies required for data warehousing and high-performance query and reporting within the leading proprietary databases such as Oracle and SQL Server don't exist in MySQL. Kickfire has the answer. By combining hardware and software innovations with the ease-of-use of the MySQL open source database, Kickfire brings to market an analytic appliance with unheard of performance, simplicity, and economics. At the core of every Kickfire appliance is a new SQL chip that radically alters the economics of query processing by packing the power of 10s of CPUs into a single chip. Just as NVIDIA moved graphics processing from software to hardware, Kickfire has done the same for database operations. This disruptive innovation facilitates tremendous improvements in speed and reductions in cost and power. With Kickfire, the MySQL data warehouse market now has a fully functional, load-and-go analytic appliance that rivals any of the proprietary database appliances or specialized analytic databases in the world. And there is no expensive hardware buildout or complex tuning required. Kickfire was founded in 2006 by Raj Cherabuddi and Joseph Chamdani, two proven entrepreneurs with more than 50 issued patents. Prior to Kickfire, they founded Sanera Systems, a startup that focused on mission-critical, high-performance SAN switches. Sanera was successfully acquired by McDATA, a public company with $800M in annual revenues, and is now part of Brocade. Backed by blue chip investors Accel Partners, Greylock Partners, Mayfield Fund and Pinnacle Ventures, Kickfire is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

PolyServe

Series E in 2006
As of March 2007, PolyServe, Inc. was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. PolyServe, Inc. provides software that consolidates servers and storage into manageable, scalable, and available database and file serving utilities. It offers Database Utility for SQL server consolidation, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and DB2; File Serving Utility for high performance scalable NAS, Windows file and print, Web and application clusters, and Oracle. The company's products are distributed through a network of international distributors and direct sales force. The company has strategic partnerships with HP, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and Novell. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon with additional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Washington, District of Columbia, San Francisco, and London.

PolyServe

Series D in 2004
As of March 2007, PolyServe, Inc. was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. PolyServe, Inc. provides software that consolidates servers and storage into manageable, scalable, and available database and file serving utilities. It offers Database Utility for SQL server consolidation, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and DB2; File Serving Utility for high performance scalable NAS, Windows file and print, Web and application clusters, and Oracle. The company's products are distributed through a network of international distributors and direct sales force. The company has strategic partnerships with HP, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and Novell. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon with additional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Washington, District of Columbia, San Francisco, and London.

HyperRoll

Series C in 2004
HyperRoll specializes in data warehouse performance acceleration through its HyperRoll Data Performance Management Suite. This software solution enhances load time, query time, and overall throughput for data warehouses, enabling organizations to respond swiftly to changes in data and metadata. The suite is designed to lower the total cost of ownership for data management systems, thanks to its innovative architecture. In addition to the performance management suite, HyperRoll provides a range of solutions across various sectors, including consumer products, retail, finance, and supply chain management. The company also offers consulting, education, and technical support services to further assist clients in optimizing their data performance and management strategies.

Data Domain

Series B in 2003
Data Domain specializes in providing disk-to-disk (D2D) and offsite disaster recovery solutions for businesses globally. The company focuses on deduplication storage systems that facilitate disk backup, data archiving, and efficient disaster recovery, as well as remote office data protection. Its product offerings include software for data replication, encryption, and retention lock, which are designed to meet IT governance and compliance requirements. Additionally, Data Domain supplies virtual tape library software for SAN environments and a web-based Enterprise Manager application for system management. The company's infrastructure solutions encompass backup and recovery, archiving, disaster recovery, and virtualization. Data Domain serves a diverse range of industries, including education, finance, healthcare, and technology, primarily in North America and Europe. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Data Domain has established itself as a key player in the data protection and storage market.

Data Domain

Series A in 2002
Data Domain specializes in providing disk-to-disk (D2D) and offsite disaster recovery solutions for businesses globally. The company focuses on deduplication storage systems that facilitate disk backup, data archiving, and efficient disaster recovery, as well as remote office data protection. Its product offerings include software for data replication, encryption, and retention lock, which are designed to meet IT governance and compliance requirements. Additionally, Data Domain supplies virtual tape library software for SAN environments and a web-based Enterprise Manager application for system management. The company's infrastructure solutions encompass backup and recovery, archiving, disaster recovery, and virtualization. Data Domain serves a diverse range of industries, including education, finance, healthcare, and technology, primarily in North America and Europe. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Data Domain has established itself as a key player in the data protection and storage market.

HyperRoll

Series B in 2002
HyperRoll specializes in data warehouse performance acceleration through its HyperRoll Data Performance Management Suite. This software solution enhances load time, query time, and overall throughput for data warehouses, enabling organizations to respond swiftly to changes in data and metadata. The suite is designed to lower the total cost of ownership for data management systems, thanks to its innovative architecture. In addition to the performance management suite, HyperRoll provides a range of solutions across various sectors, including consumer products, retail, finance, and supply chain management. The company also offers consulting, education, and technical support services to further assist clients in optimizing their data performance and management strategies.

PolyServe

Series B in 2001
As of March 2007, PolyServe, Inc. was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Co. PolyServe, Inc. provides software that consolidates servers and storage into manageable, scalable, and available database and file serving utilities. It offers Database Utility for SQL server consolidation, Oracle, Oracle RAC, and DB2; File Serving Utility for high performance scalable NAS, Windows file and print, Web and application clusters, and Oracle. The company's products are distributed through a network of international distributors and direct sales force. The company has strategic partnerships with HP, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and Novell. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon with additional offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, New York, Washington, District of Columbia, San Francisco, and London.
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