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Of historical note, the company's name has its origin in the street that founder Bill Elfers lived on, in Massachusetts. Greylock Road, Wellesley Hills. Reference here. 121.74.233.34 ( talk) 02:10, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
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Greylock has $2.1 under management and they invest in consumer and enterprise software - not semi conductors. Their offices are in the Bay Area and Cambridge, MA. All of this information can be found on their "About Us" page. [1] They didn't have offices in India, and their Israel branch known as Greylock IL rebranded as 83North in January 2015. [2] Esmilcsncm ( talk) 17:46, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Greylock Partners has $2.1B under management. [1] They changed their logo in 2010. [2] Esmilcsncm ( talk) 17:49, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Okay, we are eleventh in the upload-queue for the new logo,
WP:TEAHOUSE folks directed me to
WP:FFU image-upload-wizard.
User:The_Banner, are you against deleting accidental-copyvio upload-attempts, on principle? :-) Somebody already uploaded the logo, but mistakenly put it on commons as CCBYSA, which is incorrect. I asked the
WP:FFU reviewer to look that over, so maybe they will fix up the accidental-copyvio-stuff. Also, they were using a promotional username, which should potentially be fixed as well, but I'm not sure what the username-policy is over on commons; might be different from enWiki?
User:Esmilcsncm, are you the same person as this person,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Greylock_Partners , who uploaded the 2010 logo in July, or do you know who that was? They accidentally marked it as modify-and-reuse-for-any-purpose-by-anyone-including-commercial-use, which seems like a goof, to my eyes at least.
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File is already available. The version of the file uploaded to Commons at File:Greylock Partners Logo.jpg is not a copyvio, it is a {{ PD-textlogo}} that is ineligible for copyright as it is plain text which is below the threshold of originality. I've placed that image in the article's infobox. Nick— Contact/ Contribs 05:39, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
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Greylock raised a $1B 14th fund in 2013. [1] Committed capital exceeds $2.1B. [2] And Greylock Israel has rebraded as 83North in January 2015. [3] Esmilcsncm ( talk) 17:55, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
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Greylock categorizes their investments into two sectors: Consumer Internet and Enterprise IT.
Consumer sectors include: advertising, commerce, gaming, marketplaces, media, mobile, services, and social. [1]
Enterprise sectors include: applications, cloud/SaaS, data center, management, networking, security and storage. [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esmilcsncm ( talk • contribs) 17:58, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I was going to add some investment history and thought the bullet list is a little unorthodox. I saw in old revisions that some additional information was being added but maybe too promotional. So Ill work with the info in my sandbox to get it down to just the facts, but I think their investment history is worth noting as it seems to be well-sourced and more specific than just a vague bullet list, per WP:USEPROSE. Tiltedtonic ( talk) 20:28, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
These can help satisfy the wp-coi-edit-request above. Note that Greylock *did* invest in semiconductor firms ... back in the 1980s and 1990s... but we need to clearly separate their various strategies over their history. Nowadays, they have a seed-fund (pretty small), some kind of university-student-oriented thing (not really an investment in the financial sense), and various professional-networking-events (somewhat investment-related). Their main business is early-stage startups, almost 100% software nowadays: consumer and enterprise groups, see refs below. Their "new" other main business is growth-stage funding, with their first such investment being in 2006 w/ facebook, and their formal announcement of an offical growth-stage-vehicle happening in 2011 (ir memory serves from refs below)... nowadays the growth-stage investments are relatively few but large in dollar-amounts (both metrics relative to early-stage-funds), about 40% of their total assets.
Venture-capital firm Greylock Partners reopened its newest fund and raised its size to $1 billion in order to invest in fast-growing and late-stage technology companies, in another sign of how the venture industry is riding the latest Web frenzy.
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help)After 44 years in the Boston area, Greylock Partners has chosen Silicon Valley for its new headquarters. The venture capital firm's Waltham office will remain open, but administrative staff will be in Menlo Park, Calif. - and the firm will add new investing partners there.
Venture capital firm Greylock Partners said today it would expand an early-stage fund to $1 billion and start a growth fund to usher in the next phase of its investment strategy. ...the conventional venture-capital model [i.e. non-angel-investor] as practiced by Greylock and a few other elite firms is still going strong. ... The firm said the expansion capital for its early-stage fund, Greylock XIII, was raised from existing limited partners and was oversubscribed. The company initially closed $575 million for the fund in November 2009. So far, that [early-stage] fund has backed startups like Airbnb, One Kings Lane, Pure Storage, Rally Software, and Shopkick. The new growth fund, Greylock Growth, is the next phase of the company's plans to executive a later-stage investment strategy, and it has been working particularly hard to mastermind social web opportunities. Since Greylock's initial Facebook investment in early 2006, approximately 40 percent of the firm's dollars have gone toward later stage companies, the firm said. The growth fund will be focused on later-stage financings in "breakout consumer Internet and enterprise companies," and will invest $25 million to $200 million at a time. ... In addition to the Facebook investment, Greylock owns 15.8 percent of LinkedIn and backs Groupon, Redfin, Constant Contact, Pandora and Zipcar (the latter two are filing to go public). ... The company also has completed 20 seed-stage investments since its discovery fund was launched in September, with $25,000 to $500,000 investments.
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help)...raised $1 billion for its fourteenth fund. The new fund, which was oversubscribed, is the same size as the firm's last fund. It's the Greylock's first fund since it moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley from Massachusetts. Greylock has remained focused on early stage investments, unlike other firms that have expanded to growth investing. In its last fund, Greylock invested about 120 of its 143 investments in the seed or Series A stage, while 10 more were Series B deals. .... In addition to massive exits Facebook, LinkedIn, Workday and Palo Alto Networks, Greylock's consumer companies include Airbnb, Dropbox, Edmodo and NextDoor, while its enterprise companies include Cloudera, Okta and Pure Storage.
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Facebook,
Airbnb,
LinkedIn. post-2011 ==
Dropbox,
Tumblr (acquired by
Yahoo),
Instagram (acquired by Facebook in 2012). Others ==
Quip (a mobile word processor app), and
ClearSlide (sales management platform). "[partner since 2011, John] Lilly is laser focused on gamechangers in the tech arena...."
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help) .... "Greylock Partners venture capital investor Josh Elman... live streaming app Meerkat — where he sits on the board ... private social network for your neighborhood NextDoor (a startup he advises)...."Greylock has invested in several networked-marketplace companies, including Airbnb, ride-sharing service Lyft, and shopping service Wanelo.
Ping my talkpage if needed. 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 05:38, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Firm overview
Firm history
Portfolio:
Requests by Esmilcsncm:
I swiped the 'todo' list from the top of this page, plus compiled a list of requests-so-far. I've numbered the pieces, so we can refer to task#1A and req#4F (which are basically the same thing methinks). I've also closed the edit-requests that I think are done; the main one left open is about properly reflecting the current-as-of-2015 investment strategy (consumer internet corporations + enterprise IT software (never hardware?)). But we also want to retain info about Greylock's *historical* investment strategy; prior to Y2K they were an east coast firm that regularly invested in hardware-startups like Teradyne, which is where the "semiconductor" stuff in the current strategy-description-section comes from. Wikipedia needs to cover both the history of the firm, and the current stances (up-to-the-year rather than up-to-the-minute) of the firm. 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 11:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
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Of historical note, the company's name has its origin in the street that founder Bill Elfers lived on, in Massachusetts. Greylock Road, Wellesley Hills. Reference here. 121.74.233.34 ( talk) 02:10, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
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Greylock has $2.1 under management and they invest in consumer and enterprise software - not semi conductors. Their offices are in the Bay Area and Cambridge, MA. All of this information can be found on their "About Us" page. [1] They didn't have offices in India, and their Israel branch known as Greylock IL rebranded as 83North in January 2015. [2] Esmilcsncm ( talk) 17:46, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Greylock Partners has $2.1B under management. [1] They changed their logo in 2010. [2] Esmilcsncm ( talk) 17:49, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
Okay, we are eleventh in the upload-queue for the new logo,
WP:TEAHOUSE folks directed me to
WP:FFU image-upload-wizard.
User:The_Banner, are you against deleting accidental-copyvio upload-attempts, on principle? :-) Somebody already uploaded the logo, but mistakenly put it on commons as CCBYSA, which is incorrect. I asked the
WP:FFU reviewer to look that over, so maybe they will fix up the accidental-copyvio-stuff. Also, they were using a promotional username, which should potentially be fixed as well, but I'm not sure what the username-policy is over on commons; might be different from enWiki?
User:Esmilcsncm, are you the same person as this person,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Greylock_Partners , who uploaded the 2010 logo in July, or do you know who that was? They accidentally marked it as modify-and-reuse-for-any-purpose-by-anyone-including-commercial-use, which seems like a goof, to my eyes at least.
75.108.94.227 (
talk)
14:45, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
File is already available. The version of the file uploaded to Commons at File:Greylock Partners Logo.jpg is not a copyvio, it is a {{ PD-textlogo}} that is ineligible for copyright as it is plain text which is below the threshold of originality. I've placed that image in the article's infobox. Nick— Contact/ Contribs 05:39, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
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Greylock raised a $1B 14th fund in 2013. [1] Committed capital exceeds $2.1B. [2] And Greylock Israel has rebraded as 83North in January 2015. [3] Esmilcsncm ( talk) 17:55, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
![]() | This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Greylock categorizes their investments into two sectors: Consumer Internet and Enterprise IT.
Consumer sectors include: advertising, commerce, gaming, marketplaces, media, mobile, services, and social. [1]
Enterprise sectors include: applications, cloud/SaaS, data center, management, networking, security and storage. [2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Esmilcsncm ( talk • contribs) 17:58, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
I was going to add some investment history and thought the bullet list is a little unorthodox. I saw in old revisions that some additional information was being added but maybe too promotional. So Ill work with the info in my sandbox to get it down to just the facts, but I think their investment history is worth noting as it seems to be well-sourced and more specific than just a vague bullet list, per WP:USEPROSE. Tiltedtonic ( talk) 20:28, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
These can help satisfy the wp-coi-edit-request above. Note that Greylock *did* invest in semiconductor firms ... back in the 1980s and 1990s... but we need to clearly separate their various strategies over their history. Nowadays, they have a seed-fund (pretty small), some kind of university-student-oriented thing (not really an investment in the financial sense), and various professional-networking-events (somewhat investment-related). Their main business is early-stage startups, almost 100% software nowadays: consumer and enterprise groups, see refs below. Their "new" other main business is growth-stage funding, with their first such investment being in 2006 w/ facebook, and their formal announcement of an offical growth-stage-vehicle happening in 2011 (ir memory serves from refs below)... nowadays the growth-stage investments are relatively few but large in dollar-amounts (both metrics relative to early-stage-funds), about 40% of their total assets.
Venture-capital firm Greylock Partners reopened its newest fund and raised its size to $1 billion in order to invest in fast-growing and late-stage technology companies, in another sign of how the venture industry is riding the latest Web frenzy.
{{
cite web}}
: Missing or empty |title=
(
help)After 44 years in the Boston area, Greylock Partners has chosen Silicon Valley for its new headquarters. The venture capital firm's Waltham office will remain open, but administrative staff will be in Menlo Park, Calif. - and the firm will add new investing partners there.
Venture capital firm Greylock Partners said today it would expand an early-stage fund to $1 billion and start a growth fund to usher in the next phase of its investment strategy. ...the conventional venture-capital model [i.e. non-angel-investor] as practiced by Greylock and a few other elite firms is still going strong. ... The firm said the expansion capital for its early-stage fund, Greylock XIII, was raised from existing limited partners and was oversubscribed. The company initially closed $575 million for the fund in November 2009. So far, that [early-stage] fund has backed startups like Airbnb, One Kings Lane, Pure Storage, Rally Software, and Shopkick. The new growth fund, Greylock Growth, is the next phase of the company's plans to executive a later-stage investment strategy, and it has been working particularly hard to mastermind social web opportunities. Since Greylock's initial Facebook investment in early 2006, approximately 40 percent of the firm's dollars have gone toward later stage companies, the firm said. The growth fund will be focused on later-stage financings in "breakout consumer Internet and enterprise companies," and will invest $25 million to $200 million at a time. ... In addition to the Facebook investment, Greylock owns 15.8 percent of LinkedIn and backs Groupon, Redfin, Constant Contact, Pandora and Zipcar (the latter two are filing to go public). ... The company also has completed 20 seed-stage investments since its discovery fund was launched in September, with $25,000 to $500,000 investments.
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help)...raised $1 billion for its fourteenth fund. The new fund, which was oversubscribed, is the same size as the firm's last fund. It's the Greylock's first fund since it moved its headquarters to Silicon Valley from Massachusetts. Greylock has remained focused on early stage investments, unlike other firms that have expanded to growth investing. In its last fund, Greylock invested about 120 of its 143 investments in the seed or Series A stage, while 10 more were Series B deals. .... In addition to massive exits Facebook, LinkedIn, Workday and Palo Alto Networks, Greylock's consumer companies include Airbnb, Dropbox, Edmodo and NextDoor, while its enterprise companies include Cloudera, Okta and Pure Storage.
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(
help) ...
Facebook,
Airbnb,
LinkedIn. post-2011 ==
Dropbox,
Tumblr (acquired by
Yahoo),
Instagram (acquired by Facebook in 2012). Others ==
Quip (a mobile word processor app), and
ClearSlide (sales management platform). "[partner since 2011, John] Lilly is laser focused on gamechangers in the tech arena...."
{{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |date=
(
help) .... "Greylock Partners venture capital investor Josh Elman... live streaming app Meerkat — where he sits on the board ... private social network for your neighborhood NextDoor (a startup he advises)...."Greylock has invested in several networked-marketplace companies, including Airbnb, ride-sharing service Lyft, and shopping service Wanelo.
Ping my talkpage if needed. 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 05:38, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
Firm overview
Firm history
Portfolio:
Requests by Esmilcsncm:
I swiped the 'todo' list from the top of this page, plus compiled a list of requests-so-far. I've numbered the pieces, so we can refer to task#1A and req#4F (which are basically the same thing methinks). I've also closed the edit-requests that I think are done; the main one left open is about properly reflecting the current-as-of-2015 investment strategy (consumer internet corporations + enterprise IT software (never hardware?)). But we also want to retain info about Greylock's *historical* investment strategy; prior to Y2K they were an east coast firm that regularly invested in hardware-startups like Teradyne, which is where the "semiconductor" stuff in the current strategy-description-section comes from. Wikipedia needs to cover both the history of the firm, and the current stances (up-to-the-year rather than up-to-the-minute) of the firm. 75.108.94.227 ( talk) 11:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
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