# Jason Risch

> Jason Risch is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture firms, where he bets early on founders reshaping cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. A Stanford math-and-statistics graduate who grew up tracking baseball statistics in Marin County, Risch cut his professional teeth at McKinsey, Opendoor, and Andrew Ng's AI Fund before joining Greylock in 2019. He approaches every investment like an applied statistician - 'shifting the distribution to increase a founder's odds of success' - and has backed breakout companies including Wiz, Cribl, LlamaIndex, Kodem, and Blockaid.

- **Role:** Partner at Greylock Partners
- **Organizations:** Greylock Partners, AI Fund, McKinsey & Company, Opendoor
- **From:** South Carolina, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Mathematical and Computational Science (minor: Classical Studies), Stanford University, M.S. Statistics, Stanford University, Entrepreneurship Fellowship, Mayfield Fellows Program, Stanford
- **Known for:** Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most successful venture funds, Early investor in Wiz, which became one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies in history, Backed Cribl, a data observability platform that became a category leader

## Career timeline

- **~2013** — Mayfield Fellowship internship at Sitch, a startup
- **~2015-2017** — Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company, Bay Area practice, advising on disruptive technology
- **~2017-2018** — Business Operations at Opendoor during rapid growth phase
- **2018-2019** — Joined AI Fund (Andrew Ng's startup studio), building and spinning out AI-enabled SaaS companies
- **2019** — Joined Greylock Partners as investor on enterprise team
- **2021** — Led or participated in Wiz investment (cybersecurity cloud platform)
- **2022-2024** — Backed LlamaIndex, Cribl, Kodem, Blockaid, Bedrock, 7AI, Predibase, Aspora, Gem
- **2024** — Published 'Deepfakes and the New Era of Social Engineering' and 'Securing AI' thought leadership pieces
- **2025** — Elevated to Partner at Greylock Partners

## Achievements

- Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most successful venture funds
- Early investor in Wiz, which became one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies in history
- Backed Cribl, a data observability platform that became a category leader
- Invested in LlamaIndex, a foundational developer tool for building LLM-powered applications
- Built and spun out multiple AI companies as operator at Andrew Ng's AI Fund
- Named speaker at RSA Conference and Engineering Leadership Conference
- Published thought leadership on deepfakes, AI security, and cloud data platforms

## Latest updates

- **2025-01** — Elevated to Partner at Greylock Partners
- **2024-10** — Published 'Deepfakes and the New Era of Social Engineering' on Greylock blog
- **2024-06** — 7AI (AI-native security company) added to active portfolio
- **2024-03** — Predibase acquired by Rubrik (portfolio exit)
- **2023-10** — Greylock closes latest fund, announced at $1B

## Links

- Website: https://greylock.com/team/jason-risch/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasoncrisch/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/rischter_scale

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Last updated: 2026-05-09