# Corinne Riley

> Corinne Riley is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she focuses on early-stage B2B enterprise software, data infrastructure, and AI companies. Before joining Greylock, she worked at Morgan Stanley on IPOs for Uber, Zoom, and Palantir. At Greylock she launched both the Scout Program - growing it to 35 scouts investing in 100+ startups - and the Edge Program, a founder-support initiative that provides pre-idea and pre-seed founders with resources and mentorship without taking upfront equity. She is known for her go-to-market expertise and her hands-on approach to helping founders land their first enterprise customers.

- **Role:** Partner at Greylock Partners
- **Organizations:** Greylock Partners, Morgan Stanley, CapitalSource, Dolead
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Economics and History, University of Chicago
- **Known for:** Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms, Launched the Greylock Scout Program, growing to 35 scouts investing in 100+ startups, Created Greylock Edge, a company-building program supporting pre-idea founders without upfront equity

## Career timeline

- **2010s** — Worked at Dolead in sales and marketing
- **2010s** — Joined CapitalSource in the Lending Finance group, worked with fintech startups in Mexico
- **2017-2020** — Joined Morgan Stanley, worked on IPOs for Uber, Zoom, and Palantir
- **2020** — Joined Greylock Partners as an investor
- **2022** — Launched Greylock Scout Program, growing to 35 scouts and 100+ early-stage investments
- **2022-2023** — Launched Greylock Edge Program for pre-idea and pre-seed founders
- **2023** — Led $7M seed investment in Altara (AI for physical sciences)
- **2024** — Served as judge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- **2025** — Led $11M Series Seed investment in Cogent Security (agentic AI for vulnerability management)

## Achievements

- Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's top venture capital firms
- Launched the Greylock Scout Program, growing to 35 scouts investing in 100+ startups
- Created Greylock Edge, a company-building program supporting pre-idea founders without upfront equity
- Led seed investments in Altara, Cogent Security, Axiamatic, Braintrust, Baseten, WarpStream, and others
- Previously worked on landmark IPOs including Uber, Zoom, and Palantir at Morgan Stanley
- Regular contributor to TechCrunch on topics of AI, enterprise software, and venture capital
- Featured as judge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- Built reputation as one of Silicon Valley's leading go-to-market experts for enterprise software

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Led $11M Series Seed round in Cogent Security, agentic AI for vulnerability management
- **2025-03** — Announced investment in Axiamatic, agentic control plane for enterprise transformation
- **2024-10** — Served as judge at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- **2023-10** — Led $7M seed investment in Altara, AI for the physical sciences
- **2022-01** — Launched Greylock Scout Program with first cohort of scouts

## Links

- Website: https://greylock.com/team/corinne-riley/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinne-marie-riley/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CorinneMRiley

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Last updated: 2026-05-09