# Asheem Chandna

> Asheem Chandna is a General Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture firms, where he has spent over two decades backing category-defining companies in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and AI. Since joining Greylock in 2003, he has never lost capital on a single investment he led - a streak spanning Palo Alto Networks, AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco for $3.85B), Rubrik (IPO 2024), Abnormal Security, and Wiz. A Mumbai-raised engineer who cut his teeth at Bell Labs and scaled marketing at Check Point Software from $10M to $550M in revenue, Chandna brings an operator's instinct to early-stage bets, often writing checks before a deck exists. Named to the Forbes Midas List nine times, he is among the most respected cybersecurity investors in the world.

- **Role:** General Partner at Greylock Partners
- **Organizations:** Greylock Partners, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, Abnormal Security, Anthropic, Wiz, Tenzai, Cylake, Good Food Institute
- **From:** Mumbai, India
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** BS, Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, MS, Computer Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
- **Known for:** Named to Forbes Midas List nine times, Zero capital losses on any investment led since joining Greylock in 2003, Founding investor in Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), a $100B+ cybersecurity leader

## Career timeline

- **Grew up** — Raised in Mumbai, India; moved to Canada before university
- **1988** — Graduated from Case Western Reserve University with BS and MS in Electrical/Computer Engineering
- **1988** — Joined AT&T Bell Labs; worked in product architecture and represented AT&T at IETF standards committees for TCP/IP management protocols
- **1991** — Joined SynOptics (Silicon Valley networking pioneer) as product management executive; witnessed company grow from $175M to $900M+ in revenues
- **~1995** — VP of Marketing at CoroNet Systems, a venture-backed startup acquired by Compuware; helped create category for application-aware network monitoring
- **1996** — Joined Check Point Software as part of core management team; helped scale revenue from $10M to $550M over 6.5 years
- **2003** — Joined Greylock Partners as General Partner; began focus on enterprise, cybersecurity, and infrastructure software
- **2012** — Palo Alto Networks IPO (founding investor)
- **2013** — Co-created the 'Cloud Access Security Broker' (CASB) product category with Rajiv Gupta of Skyhigh Networks at RSA Conference
- **2017** — AppDynamics acquired by Cisco for $3.85B; Skyhigh Networks acquired by McAfee
- **2020** — Sumo Logic IPO
- **2021** — Innovium acquired by Marvell for $1.1B
- **2024** — Rubrik IPO; named to Forbes Midas List for ninth time
- **2025** — Led investment in Tenzai's $75M record seed round for AI-native code security

## Achievements

- Named to Forbes Midas List nine times
- Zero capital losses on any investment led since joining Greylock in 2003
- Founding investor in Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW), a $100B+ cybersecurity leader
- Board director for AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco for $3.85B
- Early investor in Rubrik, which went public in 2024
- Invested in Wiz at an early stage (later valued at $12B+)
- Invested in Abnormal Security (valued at $5.1B+)
- Invested in Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude
- Helped co-create the CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) product category at RSA 2013
- Served on boards of 25+ technology companies
- Helped scale Check Point Software from $10M to $550M in revenue as a marketing executive
- Led Tenzai's $75M record seed round in 2025 for AI-native penetration testing

## Latest updates

- **2025-11** — Led Tenzai's $75M record seed round to build AI-native code security platform
- **2025-02** — Featured in Fortune magazine article on his 22-year zero-loss investment streak at Greylock
- **2024-04** — Rubrik IPO on NYSE, one of Chandna's founding investments at Greylock
- **2026-04** — Joined Cylake board alongside Palo Alto Networks veterans Mark McLaughlin and Nir Zuk

## Links

- Website: https://greylock.com/team/asheem-chandna/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandna/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/chandna

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