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/
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
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.
Seven AI pioneers cybersecurity solutions that use powerful AI technology to defend enterprises from digital attacks.
Raised $36,000,000.00 from Greylock, Spark Capital and CRV.
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.
Abnormal Security is an email security company that protects enterprises and organizations from targeted email attacks.
Raised $534,000,000.00 from Menlo Ventures, Greylock, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund, Wellington Management and Insight Partners.
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).
Obsidian Security is a threat detection and posture management for business-critical saas applications.
Raised $119,500,000.00 from IVP, Norwest Venture Partners, Innovation Valley Partners, Wing Venture Capital, Google Ventures, Greylock and Menlo Ventures.
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).
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT.
Raised $554,300,000.00 from Spellman Investment Group, SharesPro, Raison, Red Lions Capital, MS&AD Ventures and Irving Investors.
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.
Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Raised $7,400,092.00 from Summit Partners and Saidler & Co. Capital.
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).
Sumo Logic is a provider of cloud-based machine data analytics that enables reliable and secure cloud-native applications.
Raised $340,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, Franklin Templeton, Battery Ventures and Tiger Global Management.
Education
M.S.
1986 - 1988
B.S.
1982 - 1986
High School
1970 - 1980