Independent rating of Greylock VC fund
Overall rating:
19 reviews
About Greylock VC fund
Website:
Founded:
1965
Number of funds:
8
Number of investments:
774
Number of exits:
235
Headquarters:
Organization type:
Venture Capital
How Greylock VC fund invests
Rounds:
Average ticket size:
22.3M USD
Smallest investment:
514K USD
Biggest investment:
57.1M USD
Would lead round:
Yes
Would coinvest:
Yes
Countries where invested:
Sectors of interest:
Software, Internet, SaaS, Retail, Information Technology, FinTech, E-Commerce, Women's, Wealth Management, Travel, Security, Productivity Tools, Network Security, Information Services, Health Diagnostics, Health Care, Financial Services, Fashion, Database, Data Storage, Cryptocurrency, Communities, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Founders' reviews of Greylock VC fund
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Helpful People
Met these guys through an intro when I wasn't pitching, but just looking to cut my teeth and hear some VCs thoughts. They were kind enough to take the time to meet up (Yoram & Arnon) and helped with advice and even some intros. Granted,
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Efficient Seed Round Pitch
I pitched to John for a seed investment. I found that he understood the pitch, was engaged, and that his feedback blunt and honest. I appreciated.
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Quick Feedback, Helpful Followup, Fast No
Was introduced to John Lilly at Greylock and had a good conversation with him about our business. He was thoughtful, tried to be helpful and gave us a quick no. When I asked him for color on his response he was quick to reply even though wildly busy and gave useful feedback on both our deal's fit (or lack therof) with Greylock and the current state of the market as it affected us independent of the specifics of our deal.
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John Lilly: Efficient, Knowledgable, and Very Helpful
At Reid Hoffman's recommendation, I pitched John Lilly on June 8, 2011 at Greylock on a new identity management startup, OneID. We met for 45 minutes.
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Ecouraging Conversation
While the outcome was "let's talk when you are at a later stage", I throuighly enjoyed the conversation and got valuable feedback from Moshic. Early to tell but he seems like a partner worth having.
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Odd Process
Possibly the worst pitching experience. After weeks of meetings and diligence the sponsor partner brings us in for a Monday meeting and one of the main Greylock partners sleeps through it. Oh well...
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Bill Kaiser: Very Straightforward
I've met now twice with Bill K. who has been very professional, insightful and above board. Though we are a little unclear as to where they stand, my partner and I have nothing but the highest regards for what our experience has been thus far.
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Excellent Team
I have worked with the Greylock Israel team for several years by now, especially with Yoram Snir and Erez Ofer. This is one of the best VC teams in Israel. They are very professional, well-connected and provide real help, especially by opening doors to customers and domain experts. While they provide all the help and advice they can, they tend not to impose their advice on the entrepreneurs / company management - you feel like working with partners more than anything else. This is a relatively young VC in Israel, but their culture is clearly inspired by Greylock US and the support functions of both Greylock US and Greylock Israel will work hard for you. One thing to bear in mind is that they invest in people - if they don't believe that you and your team can execute or work well together with them, they will not invest in your venture regardless of how great is your technology.
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Bad Pitch
Tried pitching to him, it took them about 5 weeks just to get back to me and setup the meeting. In the meeting Yoram was unprepared made wrong remarks about our market and what we are trying to do. I would appreciate him much better if he would say I don’t invest in markets and technologies that I am not familiar with, or even better give a no answer for the meeting request instead of wasting everybody time.
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Make Sure You Have Both Bill Support if You Want Deal Done in Boston
I've heard this a few times that Bill Helman has all the power and that both Bills (Bill Kaiser is the other) need to be on Board if you want your deal done. I friend of mine was spend a consider about of time with another partner only to have deal nixed at end. Have other had similar experience"
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Great Group
Greylock is by far the best group of venture professionals that I have had the privledge of interacting with. They are extremely well connected and do not hesitate to use their connections to help out.
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Charles Chi a Class Act
I pitched Charles Chi a few years ago for our Series A, and it was a very good experience as he immediately concluded that it wasn't a good fit and very politely told us why. We didn't waste anyone's time futher.
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David Strohm is Very Sharp
Greylock funded one of the first companies that I worked for & I met David Strohm through that association. I kept in touch with him through the years and have always been impressed. He's confident, but not arrogant & he's a real pleasure to deal with.
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Very Worthwhile First Pitch
Tom Bogan was smart, candid and insightful.
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Bill Helman
I have heard from folks who have worked with him that he has an ego the size of a football stadium, but that "you know where you stand". I know a few LP's and apparently he's never had the kind of grand slam many of his contemporaries have which might explain the ego issues.
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Top Notch Group
Greylock is one of the best funds in Israel. Although Moshic may appear to be arrogant at times, they are generally a very capable group that is above the crowd. Yoram and Erez are very hard working partners and they work hard to find the right deal, invest in due diligence and support their portfolio companies. They tend to make bets that are ahead of the pack and would look outside of the box for interesting stuff. It might be difficult to get them to respond at times as they do get access to the best dealflow available but can be quite competitive at times. The way their fund is structured is that they are independent than their US affiliate so it might be difficult for them to provide the same level of support from their US partners as it percieved by their US brand but they would work hard for you.
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Go for the Partners
Principals and Associates offered very little if any insights and were unable to grasp simple online advertising concepts. Of all the pitches, they offered the least strategic insights and questions. Good people but just going through the motions of "looking at every deal". Mistake was to assume they would bring in Partners.
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Polite but Sketchy
I must second all other comments. I met with Bill Kaiser, Eve Phillips and a few associates and while they all were very polite, they were also very arrogant and very aggressive. Also, you could feel the internal tension (my conversation with them always had people from different offices cutting each other off and not agreeing with each other).
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Never Again
Twice is enough, and the same things keep happening there after the people change. They'll change their minds and blame the other partners, they'll make decisions they don't really like then look for someone else to blame. They tolerate bad management for too long and then - wham! - they change everything. All ego, no help, no partnership. It's just not worth it.