Greylock

Greylock Partners is a venture capital firm founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with additional offices in Wellesley and San Francisco. The firm specializes in investing across all stages of company development, particularly focusing on seed and early-stage investments, as well as growth capital. Greylock primarily targets consumer and enterprise software sectors, with interests spanning various industries, including fintech, healthcare, media, and cloud applications. The firm typically invests between $50,000 and $500,000 in seed-stage companies, $1 million to $10 million in early-stage firms, and $25 million to $200 million in later-stage companies. Greylock is known for backing entrepreneurs who innovate and disrupt markets, having invested in notable companies such as Airbnb, Dropbox, and LinkedIn. The firm prefers to take board seats in its portfolio companies and seeks opportunities primarily in the United States, India, China, Europe, and Israel.

Michael Ahern

Recruiting Partner

Jacob Andreou

General Partner

Joseph Ansanelli

Partner

Asheem Chandna

Partner

Jerry Chen

Partner

Gerald Chen

Partner

John Delaney

Principal

Mike Duboe

General Partner

Roger Evans

Partner

Maya Frai

Investor

Tom Frangione

COO

Sarah Guo

Board Partner

Lee Haney

Partner and Head of CXO Partnerships

William Helman

Partner

Bob Henderson

Special Limited Partner

William Kaiser

Partner

Christine Kim

Partner

John Lilly

Venture Partner

Corinne Riley

Partner

Jason Risch

Investor

Seth Rosenberg

Partner

James Slavet

Venture Partner

Dave Strohm

Partner

David N. Strohm

Venture Partner

Donald A. Sullivan

Administrative Partner

Don Sullivan

Partner

David Thacker

Venture Partner

Peter Thorne

Investor

David Wadhwani

Venture Partner

Past deals in Messaging

Postscript

Series C in 2022
Postscript provides enterprise SMS marketing solutions for e-commerce. It allows users to easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics to improve sales and revenue. It plugs into e-commerce businesses and helps overcome declining email engagement by sending customers targeted and customizable SMS marketing.

Postscript

Series B in 2021
Postscript provides enterprise SMS marketing solutions for e-commerce. It allows users to easily create and manage SMS marketing campaigns with detailed analytics to improve sales and revenue. It plugs into e-commerce businesses and helps overcome declining email engagement by sending customers targeted and customizable SMS marketing.

Multi

Series A in 2020
Multi operates a video calling platform that facilitates online collaboration for remote teams. The application enables users to engage in audio and video calls, instant messaging, and make calls to both mobile and landline numbers. By prioritizing real-time communication, Multi allows teams to connect through live video chats, fostering a more natural and engaging environment for collaboration. This approach helps users build rapport and enhances the overall experience of working together remotely, making it an effective tool for professional meetings and personal interactions alike.

Crew

Series C in 2018
Crew is a communications application tailored for frontline workers who often lack access to effective communication tools. It provides a platform that streamlines team communication, enabling employees such as store clerks, restaurant managers, and healthcare professionals to stay connected and engaged. The app features a user-friendly interface that allows for instant connectivity among coworkers without the need for exchanging personal phone numbers. Additionally, Crew facilitates the management of shift covers, time-off requests, and task assignments, ensuring that all work-related activities can be coordinated efficiently in one centralized location. This innovative approach helps organizations enhance their operational effectiveness and improve employee collaboration across various industries.

Islands

Seed Round in 2017
Islands Media Inc. operates a location-based messaging platform aimed at connecting college students through various events and activities. Launched in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the platform allows users to create channels, referred to as "islands," for organizing events such as games, sharing class notes, and forming support groups. By facilitating interactions among students who may not already know each other, Islands Media Inc. provides a unique space for networking and social engagement within the college community.

Crew

Series B in 2017
Crew is a communications application tailored for frontline workers who often lack access to effective communication tools. It provides a platform that streamlines team communication, enabling employees such as store clerks, restaurant managers, and healthcare professionals to stay connected and engaged. The app features a user-friendly interface that allows for instant connectivity among coworkers without the need for exchanging personal phone numbers. Additionally, Crew facilitates the management of shift covers, time-off requests, and task assignments, ensuring that all work-related activities can be coordinated efficiently in one centralized location. This innovative approach helps organizations enhance their operational effectiveness and improve employee collaboration across various industries.

Syllable

Seed Round in 2017
Syllable is a developer of a text and voice-based platform designed to enhance communication between healthcare providers and patients. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the platform facilitates interactions regarding primary care, specialty referrals, vaccinations, and general practice information. This technology enables patients to access healthcare information and guidance beyond traditional clinical settings, improving overall communication and patient engagement in their healthcare journeys.

Discord

Series D in 2017
Discord is a communication platform that provides voice, video, and text services, allowing users to connect and interact with friends and communities. Initially designed for gamers, it has expanded its appeal to various groups, including hobbyists, study groups, and local clubs. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Discord enables seamless communication through its instant messaging and digital distribution features, which are accessible on both desktops and mobile devices. The platform supports voice-over-internet protocol and texting, facilitating regular interaction without compromising performance during gaming or other activities.

Frisbee

Seed Round in 2016
Frisbee builds mobile video products that enable people to intimately and authentically communicate with one another through video. We want to help people feel close to one another even when apart in a way that builds deeper relationships. We're looking for motivated engineers who can bring their skills and ideas to building mobile products that help people connect. We're a small scrappy team of former Facebookers and startup vets, and looking for A players to bring on! ------- Previous products: Alively (iOS) makes it easy to capture & share everyday moments privately with your friends through live or recorded video: https://alive.ly/ and App Store here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/alively/id1143273512

Crisis Text Line

Series B in 2016
Crisis Text Line provides free, 24/7 emotional support through a text messaging platform designed to assist individuals in crisis, particularly teens. By texting 741741, users can connect with trained Crisis Counselors who practice active listening to help them navigate distressing moments. The service aims to foster a sense of calm and provide essential resources, supporting mental health and well-being. Through its text-based communication, Crisis Text Line offers a trusted and accessible means for those in need to receive professional help, empowering them to find relief and motivation during difficult times.

Discord

Series C in 2016
Discord is a communication platform that provides voice, video, and text services, allowing users to connect and interact with friends and communities. Initially designed for gamers, it has expanded its appeal to various groups, including hobbyists, study groups, and local clubs. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Discord enables seamless communication through its instant messaging and digital distribution features, which are accessible on both desktops and mobile devices. The platform supports voice-over-internet protocol and texting, facilitating regular interaction without compromising performance during gaming or other activities.

Beep

Seed Round in 2016
Beep is a fully loaded chat app for the younger generation that allows you to add creativity and fun to your voice messages.

Sochat

Seed Round in 2015
Sochat is an iOS and Android mobile messaging application and connection platform. It allows its users to publish groups nearby with a PIN to quickly gather up and share GIFs, photos, videos, disappearing messages, and drawings among its users. It also allows sending songs and YouTube videos, play rock paper scissors game, and poll friends and groups. Sochat is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 2014 by Lukens Orthwein.

Medium

Series B in 2015
Medium is a social publishing platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It enables individuals to share their ideas and perspectives through a user-friendly interface that simplifies content creation. The platform provides a broader distribution network for writers while allowing readers to follow topics and people of interest, resulting in a personalized daily content feed. Users can engage with posts by highlighting, recommending, or responding, fostering a community of conversation and collaboration. Medium emphasizes diversity in perspectives and encourages experimentation with new ideas.

Telepathic

Seed Round in 2015
Telepathic, Inc., operating under the name Hooked, is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2014 that focuses on innovative storytelling for young audiences. The company has developed a mobile reading application, Hooked, which presents narratives as text message conversations, making reading engaging and accessible for teens. In addition to Hooked, Telepathic has created AutoRap, a music application, and has produced viral videos that collectively garnered over 300 million views. The founders, Prerna Gupta and Parag Chordia, bring extensive experience from the mobile app industry and envision expanding their storytelling approach across various platforms, including apps, video, and virtual reality. Telepathic aims to capitalize on the evolving consumption habits of the Snapchat generation, seeking to transform the way fiction is developed and distributed in a mobile-first context.

Gathertheapp

Seed Round in 2015
Gather also lets users post videos to a group or individual and get reactions from them, but it differs from Samba in that it also lets users offer links to articles and then asking for reactions to the article. It’s a hybrid of Snapchat Stories and Samba in that way.

Handwriting.io

Series A in 2015
Handwriting.io, offers a patented API that enables brands to easily incorporate the company’s proprietary digital handwriting technology into existing mobile apps and websites to deliver personalized communications to customers in a scalable, affordable way. To enhance consumer messaging solutions with a personal touch, Handwriting.io launched its new iOS app, ScribbleChat, an advanced messaging platform to distinguish “handwritten” text, emojis, and interactive animations to more accurately convey emotion in conversations. The company is headquartered in New York. Learn more at handwriting.io and getscribblechat.com.

Medium

Series A in 2014
Medium is a social publishing platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It enables individuals to share their ideas and perspectives through a user-friendly interface that simplifies content creation. The platform provides a broader distribution network for writers while allowing readers to follow topics and people of interest, resulting in a personalized daily content feed. Users can engage with posts by highlighting, recommending, or responding, fostering a community of conversation and collaboration. Medium emphasizes diversity in perspectives and encourages experimentation with new ideas.

Path

Series C in 2014
Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service designed to facilitate personal social networking among users and their closest contacts, limited to 150 connections. The platform emphasizes simplicity, quality, and privacy, aiming to enhance the way individuals share their life's moments with friends and family. Path offers features that enable users to capture and share experiences in a secure environment, underlining the importance of close relationships. The service has evolved with a focus on creating meaningful connections, reflecting the belief that mobile technology can transform social interactions.

Sparks

Seed Round in 2013
Sparks is a company based in San Francisco that has developed a mobile platform for creating memes. Users can search for images or animated GIFs using an integrated image search engine, add personalized messages, and customize the typeface and placement of the text. Once satisfied with their creations, users can easily share their memes with friends, fostering a new way to express and discuss interests and ideas.

Leo

Seed Round in 2013
Leo is the fastest and easiest way to share moments of your life with family and friends. Connect with your favorite people through short-lived photos, videos and texts, captured in the moment. Messages disappear a few seconds after viewing them.

MessageMe

Series A in 2013
MessageMe is a mobile messaging application designed to enhance communication through personalized and emotionally engaging interactions. The platform focuses on creating a fun and lightweight user experience, encouraging users to send and respond to messages in a dynamic manner. By applying techniques from social gaming, MessageMe aims to enrich the emotional context of messaging, thereby increasing user engagement and excitement. The company has attracted interest from major players in the tech industry, including Snapchat and Truecaller. Ultimately, MessageMe was acquired by Yahoo for a sum estimated between $30 million and $40 million, reflecting its potential in the competitive messaging app landscape.

MessageMe

Seed Round in 2013
MessageMe is a mobile messaging application designed to enhance communication through personalized and emotionally engaging interactions. The platform focuses on creating a fun and lightweight user experience, encouraging users to send and respond to messages in a dynamic manner. By applying techniques from social gaming, MessageMe aims to enrich the emotional context of messaging, thereby increasing user engagement and excitement. The company has attracted interest from major players in the tech industry, including Snapchat and Truecaller. Ultimately, MessageMe was acquired by Yahoo for a sum estimated between $30 million and $40 million, reflecting its potential in the competitive messaging app landscape.

Path

Series B in 2012
Path is a mobile photo-sharing and messaging service designed to facilitate personal social networking among users and their closest contacts, limited to 150 connections. The platform emphasizes simplicity, quality, and privacy, aiming to enhance the way individuals share their life's moments with friends and family. Path offers features that enable users to capture and share experiences in a secure environment, underlining the importance of close relationships. The service has evolved with a focus on creating meaningful connections, reflecting the belief that mobile technology can transform social interactions.

Chirp Interactive

Seed Round in 2008
Chirp Interactive developed social media applications designed to keep users connected with their networks continuously. The company created products that aggregated feeds from various social media platforms, allowing users to discover their friends' content and activities. One of its key products, Chirpscreen, functioned as a customized interactive screensaver, showcasing updates from social networking sites. However, Chirp has since ceased operations, and the team transitioned to thePlatform, a video distribution solution owned by Comcast.
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