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Will Lawrence
Will Lawrence is the co-founder and CEO of Bretton AI, the San Francisco company formerly known as Greenlite AI that builds AI agents for financial crime and compliance operations. After leading anti-money laundering product work at Facebook/Meta and building compliance infrastructure at Paxos, he started the company in 2023 to automate the slow, manual investigative work behind KYC, AML and sanctions checks. In February 2026 the company rebranded to Bretton AI and raised a $75 million Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, bringing total funding to roughly $90 million, with customers including Robinhood, Mercury, Ramp, Gusto and a set of OCC-, FDIC- and Federal Reserve-regulated banks.
Kurt Schrader
Kurt Schrader is the co-founder and CEO of Shortcut, the New York project management platform for software teams that started life as Clubhouse in 2014. After years of building and scaling engineering organizations, including a stint as CTO of Intent Media where he grew the team from one person to more than 40, he set out to build tooling that stays simple for daily users while giving leaders real visibility. In 2025 he steered Shortcut into the AI era with Korey, an AI product manager that turns plain-language ideas into build-ready plans.
Alvaro Morales
Alvaro Morales is the co-founder and CEO of Orb, the flexible billing engine behind companies like Vercel, Perplexity and Replit. Raised in Lima, Peru and trained as a computer scientist at MIT, he built products at Yahoo, Palantir and spent five years as an engineering leader at Asana, where he watched pricing changes that should have taken minutes drag on for months. In 2021 he and CTO Kshitij Grover founded Orb to let companies ship pricing as fast as they ship product. In June 2026, payments giant Adyen agreed to acquire Orb for $335 million.
Howard Ting
Howard Ting is the CEO of Opal Security, a San Francisco identity-security company building a unified control plane for access governance. He took the top job in November 2025 after more than five years running Cyberhaven and two-plus decades scaling category-defining security and enterprise-software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Nutanix, Redis, Zscaler, and RSA Security. A marketing-and-product operator who once demoed Azure Active Directory on stage with Bill Gates, Ting now bets that the hardest unsolved problem in security is authorization: deciding what any human, service, or AI agent should be allowed to do, and for how long.
Hasan Imam
Hasan Imam is the CEO of Obsidian Security, the SaaS security company protecting Fortune 1000 and Forbes Global 2000 enterprises across their cloud applications, AI agents, and integrations. He took the helm in 2021 when revenue was under $1 million and COVID had gutted the pipeline, then rebuilt the product and team and pushed Obsidian to win head-to-head customer evaluations more than 80% of the time. Before Obsidian, he grew Shape Security from under $3M to nearly $90M in revenue, ending in a $1 billion acquisition by F5. He has a master's in computer science from Stanford and a bachelor's from Wisconsin-Madison, which he finished in under three years.
Meena Mallipeddi
Meena Mallipeddi is the co-founder and CEO of AmplifyMD, an EHR-integrated, multi-specialty virtual care platform and national physician network that helps hospitals close specialist coverage gaps. Raised in a family of doctors and trained as a Stanford honors grad, Cambridge Gates Scholar, and a 15-year technology and healthcare equity investor, she left the markets to build the company alongside her husband and co-founder, Anand Nathan. Since founding in 2019, AmplifyMD has grown to 300+ programs across 150+ clinical sites, a network of nearly 300 physicians, and 15+ specialties, raising $43M total including a $20M Series B in 2025 led by Forerunner Ventures.
Rishabh Jain
Rishabh Jain is the co-founder and CEO of FERMÀT, a San Francisco AI-native commerce platform that builds personalized, content-native shopping experiences for direct-to-consumer and enterprise brands. A LiveRamp alum who saw Apple's privacy changes coming before most, he launched FERMÀT in late 2021 to rewire how brands sell when shoppers can no longer be tracked across the web. The company has raised roughly $86M across rounds, capped by a $45M Series B in June 2025, and counts Glossier, GNC, ILIA Beauty, BISSELL and Unilever's Olly among its customers.
Chang Li
Chang Li is the Marketing Partner at Greylock Partners, the storied Silicon Valley venture firm behind LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Workday. An electrical engineer turned marketing strategist, she has spent her career translating deeply technical products into market-defining narratives. Before Greylock, she helped HashiCorp manage pricing and monetization across a $500M+ ARR portfolio, then led product marketing at Metronome where she helped define usage-based billing as an emerging software category. Now she brings that zero-to-one positioning expertise to Greylock's founders at the exact moment it matters most.
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.
Dave Strohm
Dave Strohm is one of Silicon Valley's longest-tenured venture investors, joining Greylock Partners in 1980 and opening the firm's West Coast office in 1983. Over four decades, he has been an early or founding investor in more than 30 companies - more than a dozen of which went public - spanning enterprise software, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and e-commerce. His most storied bets include DoubleClick (sold to Google), SuccessFactors (sold to SAP), Internet Security Systems (sold to IBM), OpenDNS (sold to Cisco), Mentor Graphics (sold to Siemens), and Ascend Communications. He served as Chairman of SuccessFactors for nearly a decade and as Lead Independent Director of EMC Corporation for twelve years. Today he serves as Venture Partner at Greylock and Special Advisor at 83North, with active board positions at Oportun, ASAPP, MATRIXX Software, RichRelevance, and Bounty Jobs.
Glen Evans
Glen Evans is Partner of Core Talent at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's premier venture capital firms. A veteran recruiter who built Facebook's engineering recruiting team from scratch and served as Slack's first Head of Global Recruiting, Evans now helps Greylock's portfolio companies build world-class teams. He advises founders on hiring strategy, recruiting operations, compensation benchmarks, and talent pipelines - translating the hard-won lessons of hyper-growth into practical playbooks for startups.
Holly Rose Faith
Holly Rose Faith is the Executive Talent Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms. Specializing in C-suite, VP-level, and board placements for Greylock's portfolio companies, she has placed top executives at Roblox, Nextdoor, Databricks, Abnormal AI, Gem, PayJoy, Snorkel, Casper, and Transfix. With roughly eight years in VC talent roles spanning Khosla Ventures, NEA, and now Greylock, Faith brings a founder-first philosophy that goes beyond transactional recruiting — coaching founders on hiring strategy, building interview frameworks, and staying involved through references, compensation, and the close.
Jacob Andreou
Jacob Andreou is a tech executive who scaled Snapchat from 80 million to 363 million daily active users and $1B+ quarterly ad revenue, became one of Greylock's youngest-ever general partners at 29, and then joined Microsoft where he was elevated to EVP of Copilot in March 2026, reporting directly to CEO Satya Nadella and leading AI experience across consumer and commercial products.
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.
Jeff Markowitz
Jeff Markowitz is an Advisory Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where he serves as a go-to resource for the firm and its portfolio companies on executive hiring. Before returning to Greylock in an advisory capacity, he spent over six years at Alphabet as Vice President and Talent Advisor directly to CEO Sundar Pichai, helping shape leadership and succession at the board and management team levels of one of the world's largest companies. His career bridges two worlds - the high-stakes art of executive recruiting (with stints at Heidrick & Struggles and a national search firm) and the operational intensity of venture-backed company building.
Josh McFarland
Josh McFarland is the Executive Chairman of Boom Supersonic, the Colorado-based company racing to bring commercial supersonic flight back to the skies. The son of a Wyoming coal miner who grew up building rockets and flying Piper Cubs with his dad, McFarland parlayed a Stanford economics degree into a career arc that touched Google's earliest advertising infrastructure, the $500M-plus sale of his AI marketing startup TellApart to Twitter, a VP role running Twitter's revenue products, and a partnership seat at Greylock Partners - before landing back in the world he loved as a boy: aviation. As Executive Chairman, he leads fundraising and go-to-market strategy for Boom, whose XB-1 demonstrator broke the sound barrier in 2025 and whose Overture airliner promises Mach 1.7 travel on sustainable aviation fuel.
Mike Duboe
Mike Duboe is a General Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's oldest and most storied venture firms. A former operator who scaled Stitch Fix's growth org from zero to 20 people and helped take the company through IPO, Duboe brings rare depth to the investor seat - having managed nine-figure marketing budgets and built scrappy product-led growth teams. He focuses on commerce, marketplaces, and vertical software, with an investment philosophy rooted in learning velocity and disciplined, sustainable growth over vanity metrics.
Mor Chen
Mor Chen is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she focuses on early-stage Israeli founders building in cybersecurity and enterprise AI. A Unit 8200 veteran who set her sights on the IDF's most elite intelligence unit at age 14, Chen went on to study computer science and statistics at Tel Aviv University, work as a software engineer at VMware, consult at Strategy& on deals including Nvidia's acquisition of Mellanox, run the 8200 Alumni Association's accelerator, and invest at Accel in London before joining Greylock in January 2025. She is known for backing founders who are, in her words, 'irrationally driven, and will break walls to achieve their vision.'
Neiman Mathew
Neiman Mathew is a Partner at Greylock, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where he focuses on early-stage founders building the next generation AI stack. He skipped college to pursue technology, spending years at Hex Labs applying AI to materials discovery and at Schmidt Futures funding ambitious AI-for-science research before joining Amplify Partners and then Greylock. Known for engaging founders before they even have a business idea, Mathew brings a rare combination of deep scientific intuition and investor pattern-recognition to the earliest and most uncertain bets in AI.
Seth Rosenberg
Seth Rosenberg is a General Partner at Greylock Partners, where he leads investments in fintech and AI from the firm's New York office. Before venture capital, he spent three years at Facebook as a product manager on Messenger - helping scale it from 200 million to over one billion monthly active users and launching its AI bot platform. Before that, he worked in tech and media investment banking at Goldman Sachs. At Greylock, he has championed an influential 'Product-Led AI' investing framework and backed companies including Ramp, Tome (now Lightfield), Wisetack, PayJoy, and Roblox.
Shreya Shekhar
Shreya Shekhar is a Partner at Greylock Partners - one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture firms - making her one of the youngest partners at a top-tier VC at age 23. A UC Berkeley M.E.T. graduate with dual degrees in EECS and Business Administration, she brings rare operator credibility to investing, having served as founding engineer at three Greylock portfolio companies (Rockset, Abnormal Security, Bedrock Security) before crossing the table. She focuses on early-stage AI infrastructure, cybersecurity, and developer tooling, backed by a foundation in code, a passion for autonomous systems, and an early obsession with AI that started with reading Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence in high school.
Sophia Luo
Sophia Luo is a Partner at Greylock Partners, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where she backs early-stage founders building AI-native applications and enabling infrastructure. A Bay Area native who triple-majored at MIT in four years, she was a nationally ranked chess player by age eight and carried that competitive instinct into the AI startup world - first as an early engineer at Scale AI, then as a founding product engineer at Character.AI. She joined Greylock in 2024, made angel bets on Cognition and Mercor before they were household names, and landed on the 2026 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in venture capital within her first year as an investor.
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.
David Sze
David Sze is an Advisory Partner at Greylock Partners who built the firm's consumer investing franchise from scratch, backing Facebook at a $500M valuation in 2006, LinkedIn when it had 1 million users in 2004, Discord in 2016, and Roblox before it became a household name. A former operator at Excite, Electronic Arts, and HBO, he ranked #4 on the Forbes Midas List in 2012 and remains one of Silicon Valley's most decorated consumer internet investors. He is a Yale trustee, Rockefeller University board member, and advisor to McLaren Racing.
Jerry Chen
Jerry Chen is a General Partner at Greylock, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture capital firms, where he has invested since 2013. A former VMware executive who scaled the company from 250 to 15,000+ employees, Jerry coined both the term 'VDI' (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) and the widely-adopted 'Systems of Intelligence' framework — a model explaining how AI and proprietary data create durable competitive moats in enterprise software. He led Greylock's early bet on Docker, sits on the board of Bluesky, and backed foundational AI tools like LlamaIndex. Defined by intellectual rigor, deep operator empathy, and a habit of asking one more question when everyone else has already stopped.
John Lilly
John Lilly is a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners and former CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where he oversaw Firefox's growth from 7 million to 450+ million users. A Stanford-trained engineer turned VC, he has backed transformative companies including Dropbox, Figma, Instagram, and Discord, while staying rooted in civic technology as Board Chair of Code for America. He currently serves as a lecturer at Stanford GSB and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Sarah Guo
Sarah Guo is the founder of Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm that has backed some of the most valuable AI startups including Harvey ($3B), Mistral ($6B), and Sierra ($4.5B). A former general partner at Greylock - where she became one of the youngest and first female GPs in the firm's 53-year history - Guo co-hosts the influential No Priors podcast with Elad Gil and ranks #21 on Forbes' 2025 Midas Seed List. Before venture, she worked at Goldman Sachs helping take companies like Workday public.
Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman co-founded LinkedIn, helped build PayPal, seeded Facebook, and has been quietly central to almost every major tech breakout of the last 25 years. A philosopher-turned-venture-capitalist who popularized 'blitzscaling,' he is now betting big on AI — co-founding Inflection AI, launching Manas AI for drug discovery, hosting two podcasts, and writing bestsellers with GPT-4 as co-author.
Josh Elman
Josh Elman is a veteran Silicon Valley product leader and investor who helped grow Twitter nearly 10x, launched Facebook Connect, and backed foundational consumer products like Discord and Musical.ly at Greylock Partners. Currently Director of Product Management at Apple focused on App Store discovery, he is best known for his 'only metric that matters' framework - the idea that great products are defined by a core action users perform at a predictable frequency, not vanity metrics.