Jason Risch
Partner at Greylock Partners
Jason Risch
Partner at Greylock Partners
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
I focus on enterprise investments across cybersecurity, AI/ML, and cloud infra. Involved investments include: Seven AI, LlamaIndex, Kodem, Cribl, Bedrock, Predibase, and Blockaid. Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies, including the teams at Facebook, LinkedIn, AirBnB, Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Okta, Abnormal Security, AppDynamics, Rubrik, and Figma.
Product and Investor
2018 - 2019
Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is a startup studio that builds new AI companies from the ground up. I operated portfolio companies from inception to seed funding, including prototyping products, signing initial customers, and recruiting the founding team. Companies I started while at AI Fund include https://bearing.ai/ and https://www.credo.ai/. AI Fund's investors include Sequoia, Greylock, NEA, and SoftBank.
Management Consultant
2017 - 2018
Tech practice
Business Operations
2016 - 2017
Focused on operationalizing changes to the house-purchasing process and optimizing pricing models to improve unit economics.
Mayfield Fellow
2015 - 2016
Selected as one of twelve Fellows from Stanford University for intensive nine-month training program on developing a theoretical understanding, practical knowledge, and leadership skills related to growing startup technology companies
Data Science
2015 - 2015
Worked in Python and R to develop a recommendation system for events. Techniques included Latent Dirichlet Allocation for NLP topic modeling, collaborative filtering for implicit feedback, and time series analysis. Analyzed user behavior through Mixpanel, SQL, and Pandas.