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Jerry Chen

Investor at WarpStream

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Jerry Chen is a Partner at Greylock in San Francisco, California, with a strong background in product management, virtualization, cloud computing, and enterprise software. He has made significant investments in companies like Onehouse, Rockset, Instabase, and TruEra, and serves on the board of directors for several startups. Chen holds a BS from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, and has played key roles in investing in and advising companies across various sectors, including ConstructionTech, Cloud Infrastructure, Consumer Internet, and SaaS, showcasing his expertise in go-to-market strategy and solution architecture.

Work Experience 

  • General Partner

    2013 - Current

    Investing seed, early stage, and growth capital in enterprise software, AI, cloud, and application infrastructure.

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2023

WarpStream Labs is an infrastructure provider for cloud-native data streaming.

Raised $20,000,000.00 from Barry McCardel, Spencer Kimball, Ben Sigelman, Amplify Partners and Greylock.

  • Investor

    2023

  • Investor and Board Director

    2022

Bluesky is a tech startup that provides workload optimization and cost governance tools to data-driven organizations.

Raised $8,800,000.00 from Firsthand.vc, Greylock, Jeff Hammerbacher, Johannes Gehrke, Zero Prime Ventures and Ashish Thusoo.

  • Investor

    2021

Ava Protocol is an intent-based Eigenlayer AVS that seamlessly enables private autonomous transactions for DeFi, NFTs, DePIN and RWA.

Raised $10,000,000.00 from Electric Capital, Sandeep Nailwal, Shima Capital, BingX, Taisu Ventures, Bloccelerate VC, Alumni Ventures, WAGMI Ventures, Emurgo ventures and Electric Capital.

  • Investor

    2021

  • Investor and Board Director

    2021

Onehouse is a cloud-native managed lakehouse service that aims to improve data lake time-to-value.

Raised $68,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Addition and Greylock.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2019

Chronosphere is the only cloud native observability platform that helps teams quickly resolve incidents while controlling costs.

Raised $342,474,000.00 from CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.

  • Investor

    2017

Notable is the AI platform for healthcare operations.

Raised $119,200,000.00 from Oak HC/FT, ICONIQ Growth, F-Prime Capital and Greylock.

  • Investor and Board Director

    2017

Blend is a digital lending platform that facilitates the entire lending process, from application to underwriting to closing.

Raised $815,000,000.00 from Haveli Investments.

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