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Greylock Partners

Venture capital firm · Founded 1965 · Active in 2026

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1965. The page below shows 80 Power Law outcomes from Greylock Partners's portfolio — 73 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · AI · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Netherlands. Greylock ranks #46 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

80 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #46 · Global · 80 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 26% 5y
73
Decacorns ↑ 20% 5y
18
Thoroughbreds ↑ 42% 5y
58
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 80 Greylock Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA73
  2. UK2
  3. Netherlands1
  4. Australia1
  5. Israel1
  6. Canada1
  7. Spain1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software14
  2. AI14
  3. Cybersecurity13
  4. Fintech10
  5. Other8
  6. Marketing7
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces6
  8. Transportation4
  9. Health Tech & Medtech3
  10. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+39
  2. Series A30
  3. Seed7
Estimated holdings

Greylock’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Greylock’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 11 companies where Greylock is a named shareholder, worth about $4.8B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Abnormal SecuritySecurity · Unicorn 24% $5.1B $1.2B
  2. 2 DiscordGaming · Decacorn 5% $15.0B $750M
  3. 3 BaseTenEnterprise Software · Unicorn 13.5% $5.0B $675M
  4. 4 Lyra HealthEnterprise Software · Unicorn 9.5% $5.8B $556M
  5. 5 Cato NetworksSecurity · Unicorn 8.5% $4.8B $408M
  6. 6 NuroRobotics · Unicorn 4.2% $6.0B $252M
  7. 7 6.5% $3.5B $228M
  8. 8 13.5% $1.6B $216M
  9. 9 14% $1.3B $182M
  10. 10 9% $2.0B $180M
  11. 11 7% $1.6B $112M

5 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Greylock’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Greylock also appears inside investor groups in Ironclad, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Greylock’s biggest exits.

Greylock portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $1.6T
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
IPO · 2014
Entered SeedNow $182B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $69.1B
$73.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $46.0B
$45.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $33.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $31.4B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $27.6B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $26.2B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $21.6B
IPO · 2001
Entered Series ANow $21.6B
acquisition · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $18.4B
$17.6B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $10.4B
$1.2B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $14.0B
$12.4B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $13.2B
$11.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $12.7B
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $9.1B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $8.2B
$4.1B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $5.3B
$872M IPO · 2016
Entered Series ANow $4.6B
$4.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $543M
$4.0B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series A

+16 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Greylock's 80 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
80 of 80 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Greylock stack up?

Greylock in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

224 founders across the 80 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States104
India34
Israel14
China10
Canada9
Australia6
New Zealand5
Egypt4
Germany4
United Kingdom3
+10 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University35
Massachusetts Institute of Technology14
Harvard University7
Berkeley7
University of Oxford4
University of Southern California4
Cairo University3
Tel Aviv University3
Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
University of Michigan Law School3
+75 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google33
Microsoft20
Meta16
Yahoo!8
Apple7
Palantir5
PayPal5
Splunk5
Amazon5
Uber5
+66 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at Greylock.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Greylock Partners

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Greylock on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Greylock Partners

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Greylock — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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