Saam Motamedi
Partner at Greylock Partners
Stanford, California
Overview
Work Experience
General Partner
2016 - Current
Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies, including the teams at Airbnb, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Coinbase, Discord, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook, Figma, LinkedIn, Nextdoor, Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage, Quip, Redfin, Roblox, Rubrik, and Workday. We invest across all company stages - seed, early and growth.
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Founding Investor and Board Member
2018
Building the next generation cloud email security platform. Abnormal is led by Evan Reiser and Sanjay Jeyakumar. Greylock led the Seed at company inception and Series A.
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.
Board Member
2019
Building the data-first, end-to-end platform for ML applications. Snorkel is led by Alex Ratner, Chris Ré, Paroma Varma, Braden Hancock, and Henry Ehrenberg. Greylock co-led the Series Seed at company inception and led the Series A.
Snorkel AI is an AI platform that accelerates data labeling by using machine learning for faster model training.
Raised $135,250,000.00 from QBE Ventures.
Board Member
2019
Securing the software development lifecycle. Apiiro is led by Idan Plotnik and Yonatan Eldar. Greylock led the Series Seed at company inception and co-led the Series A.
Apiiro enables security and development teams to proactively remediate risk before releasing to the cloud.
Raised $135,000,000.00 from General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins and Greylock.
Board Member
2019
Building the expertise management platform to turn every employee into an expert on day one. Cresta is founded by Zayd Enam, Tim Shi and Sebastian Thrun and led by Ping Wu. Greylock led the Series A.
Cresta uses artificial intelligence to assist sales and service agents in the quality of customer service.
Raised $276,000,000.00 from Greylock, Workday Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, Sequoia Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Andreessen Horowitz, LG Technology Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Accenture.
Board Member
2021
Declarative ML platform -- state-of-the-art machine learning as easy as writing a SQL query. Predibase is led by Piero Molino, Travis Addair, Devvret Rishi, and Chris Re. Greylock led the Series Seed at company inception and the Series A.
Highest quality, fastest throughput small language models in your cloud
Raised $28,450,000.00 from Felicis, Anthony Goldbloom, Yi Wang, Greylock, Ben Hamner, Factory, Varun Badhwar, Remi El-Ouazzane, Zoubin Gharamani and Sancus Ventures.
Board Member
2022
A modern, needs-based access and authorization platform. Opal is led by Umaimah Khan. Greylock led the Series Seed at company inception and Series A.
An identity and access management platform that offers a consolidated view and control of your ecosystem from on-prem to cloud and SaaS.
Raised $33,800,000.00 from BoxGroup, Battery Ventures and Greylock.
Board Member
2022
Building the runtime-powered cloud security platform. Upwind is led by Amiram Shachar, Liran Polak, Lavi Ferdman, and Tal Zur. Greylock co-led the Series Seed and Series A.
Upwind Security provides cybersecurity solutions to protect organizations from digital threats and vulnerabilities.
Raised $180,000,000.00 from Craft Ventures, Greylock, TCV, Penny Jar Capital, Cyberstarts, Sheva Capital, Cerca Partners, Leaders Fund, Alta Park Capital and Cerca Partners.
Board Member
2023
Building the enterprise-grade stack for building AI products. Braintrust is led by Ankur Goyal. Greylock led the Series Seed.
Braintrust offers an AI stack to simplify the process from evaluations to data management, ensuring seamless integration into any business.
Raised $41,100,000.00 from Databricks Ventures, Arthur Mensch, Greylock, Bryan Helmig, Elad Gil, Simon Last, Greg Brockman, Andreessen Horowitz, Datadog and Guillermo Rauch.
Board Member
2024
The world's first AI production engineer. Resolve is led by Spiros Xanthos and Mayank Agarwal. Greylock led the Series Seed.
Resolve AI, a startup aiming to automate software operations.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Paul Daugherty, Colin Jones, Amjad Masad, Reid Hoffman, Andy Price, Akshay Kothari, Michele Catasta, Jeff Lawson, Unusual Ventures and Christos Kozyrakis.