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Asheem Chandna

Investor at Seven AI

Menlo Park, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2003 - Current

    Founded in 1965, Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm. We invest in technology companies in two primary areas - consumer internet and enterprise IT, and across all company stages - seed, early and growth. Notable consumer investments include Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Redfin and Nextdoor. Notable enterprise investments include Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage, Okta, Rubrik, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Imperva, Arista and ServiceNow. Forbes (April 2017) - How Greylock VC Asheem Chandna Keeps Racking Up Billion-Dollar Outcomes - http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/04/18/greylock-vc-asheem-chandna-backs-billion-dollar-wins/ WSJ VC Dispatch (Dec 2012) - VC in 2013: Asheem Chandna of Greylock on the 'Trillion Dollar Opportunity' for Investors - http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/12/21/vc-in-2013-asheem-chandna-of-greylock-on-the-trillion-dollar-opportunity-for-investors/ VentureBeat (Nov 2012) - Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft - http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/27/enterprise-investors/2/ Bloomberg (Aug 2012) - Greylock Follows Facebook Win With Business Software IPOs - http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-08-31-greylock-follows-facebook-win-with-business-software-ipos/ New York Times (Apr. 2012) - One on One: Asheem Chandna, Venture Capitalist - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/one-on-one-asheem-chandna-venture-capitalist/ Forbes (Feb. 2012) - Five Tips for Aspiring Venture Investors - http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/02/24/five-tips-for-aspiring-venture-investors/

  • Founding Investor and Board of Directors

    2023

    Reinventing the SOC. Founded by Lior Div (CEO) and Yonatan Striem Amit (CTO). Lior and Yonatan previously founded Cybereason.

  • Founding Investor and Board of Directors

    2021

    Kodem is redefining application security. Kodem Dynamic is the industry's only software composition analysis (SCA) platform that uses runtime intelligence to determine actual application risk. Founded by Aviv Mussinger, Idan Burtura and Pavel Furman, three very accomplished technology leaders who previously worked together at the the NSO Group.

  • Founding Investor and Board of Directors

    2018

    The Abnormal Security cloud email security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Founded by Evan Reiser and Sanjay Jeyakumar, both of whom previously worked together at Twitter.

  • Founding Investor and Board of Directors

    2017

    Obsidian Security is applying artificial intelligence to enable user security for enterprise hybrid cloud environments. Recruiting and building product team in Newport Beach: apply@obsidiansecurity.com Founded by Glenn Chisholm (previously Cylance, Telstra), Ben Johnson (previously Carbon Black, NSA), and Matt Wolff (previously Cylance, NSA).

  • Investor and Board of Directors

    2015

    Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world’s data. The Rubrik founding team consists of Bipul Sinha (previously at Lightspeed where he was the founding investor and board member at Nutanix, PernixData, Hootsuite); Arvind Jain (Google Distinguished Engineer, founding engineer of Riverbed); Soham Mazumdar (Google Staff Engineer, co-founder of Teragoogle, Google Founder’s Award recipient); and Arvind Nithrakashyap (co-founder of Oracle Exadata).

  • Investor

    2012

    Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) is a leading supplier of cloud networking solutions. Led by Jayshree Ullal. Founded by Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda and Dave Cheriton. Jayshree and Andy were named the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2015 National Overall Award winners.

  • Mentor

    2011

    StartX is an educational non-profit that accelerates the development of Stanford University's top entrepreneurs through experiential education and collective intelligence.

  • Founding Investor

    2010

    Instart Logic provides the world’s first Web Application Streaming Network. Intelligent streaming allows users to interact almost immediately with a web page or application with only a partial download. Instart Logic empowers web publishers to deliver current and next-generation rich web applications that dramatically boost user engagement, increase customer loyalty, and drive new revenue streams. Business Week (Aug 2013) - Instart Logic Wants a Smoking Fast Internet http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-08-22/instart-logic-wants-a-smoking-fast-internet Led by Manav Mital. Founded by Manav, Hariharan Kolam (CTO), and Raghu Venkat (CPO), all of whom previously worked together at Aster Data.

  • Founding Investor

    2010

    Sumo Logic is the industry's leading machine data analytics platform that delivers continuous intelligence for modern applications. Greylock helped initiate Sumo Logic and led the company's Series A financing in April 2010. Served on the Sumo Logic board of directors from company founding till January 2012. Forbes (Jan. 2012) - Mo' Money, Mo' Data - http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2012/01/31/mo-data-mo-money/ Led by Ramin Sayar (formerly VMware). Founded by Christian Beedgen (formerly chief architect at ArcSight) and Kumar Saurabh (formerly director of engineering at ArcSight), who were joined by Bruno Kurtic (formerly VP product management at SenSage).

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