Saam Motamedi @saammotamedi Twitter profile

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

The Head of Astronomy at Harvard asserting that Oumuamua was a non-human solar sail. Great read that reflects on both (1) the lack of academic freedom with which most scientists work (2) further evidence that we haven't passed the Great Filter yet

If true, this could be one of the greatest discoveries in human history

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@saammotamedi

7 months

We at @GreylockVC are making two significant announcements today: 1. Greylock 17, a $1B fund dedicated to Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A investing 2. Greylock Edge, a new company-building program for progressing founders from inception to product-market fit Read more👇

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Solar sails will make deep space exploration possible. They solve a core constraint (propellant) and we're developing them now. "A solar sail is a spaceship that uses the sun for propulsion. It is propelled ahead by reflecting light." More from @NASA

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5 years

And then read (or don't read 😳) Rendezvous with Rama - a science fiction story that recalls the encounter with Oumuamua - to find out what's in store for us next.

Rendezvous with Rama - Wikipedia

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@saammotamedi

5 years

Very excited and grateful for the next chapter building and learning with the founders we work with and my partners @GreylockVC We're wholly focused on partnering with and helping entrepreneurs build foundational technology companies, from the earliest stages. 🚀🚀

Greylock

@GreylockVC

5 years

Thrilled to announce that @saammotamedi is our newest General Partner! We know that he will be a great partner to entrepreneurs building the next generation of foundational tech companies in data, ML, applied AI, application software, & cybersecurity.

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@saammotamedi

5 years

Read Avi Loeb's original publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, where he raises the question about Oumuamua's acceleration.

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@saammotamedi

11 months

Our next incubation... We @GreylockVC have a deep history of partnering with founders to initiate and incubate leading software companies. Workday and Palo Alto Networks started in our offices, and more recently we've incubated companies like @AbnormalSec , @inflectionAI ,…

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

1 year

So excited for @NotionHQ and my better half 👇

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@laurynmotamedi

1 year

Today's my first day as Head of Product Growth @NotionHQ ! I'm excited to support this PLG rocket ship alongside a stellar team 📈🚀

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@saammotamedi

5 months

1/ I'm incredibly excited to announce @GreylockVC 's partnership with @ankrgyl and @braintrustdata as we have led their Seed. Since launching, Braintrust has quickly become production infrastructure at leading AI companies @zapier , @coda_hq , @Instacart , @airtable and many more.

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@ankrgyl

5 months

Not too long ago, I announced a new company called @braintrustdata . Today I'm super excited to share our $5m seed round led by @saammotamedi at @GreylockVC .

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

1/ Today, we @GreylockVC are thrilled to announce our partnership with @AdeptAILabs -- a ML research and product lab building general intelligence by enabling humans and computers to work together creatively. Read more 👇

A Human-Centric Path to AGI | Greylock

Today, we are excited to share our investment in Adept, which is coming out of stealth and announcing a $65M Series A co-led by Greylock and Addition. Adept is a ML research and product lab building...

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Excited to announce Greylock 16 and to partner with and support the next generation of entrepreneurs in their ambition to build market-defining companies.

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

Announcing Greylock's Fund 16 - a billion dollar fund, focused on consumer and enterprise tech at earliest stages. Grateful to the founders who invite us to share their journey; it’s our privilege to work with them

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

1/ Cresta is launching their expertise management platform to reimagine the future of work and turn every employee into an Expert on Day One. We @GreylockVC are excited to have led the Series A financing and partnered with the company at the early stages.

Cresta Launches with $21M of Funding To Enable Office Workers to be Experts on Day One®

Cresta Launches with $21M of Funding To Enable Office Workers to be Experts on Day One®.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

. @SnorkelAI has reimagined the interface for AI with their data-centric AI platform -- leveraging programatic labeling as an entry-point into a pragmatic approach to building AI applications. Announcing their Series C to accelerate AI in the enterprise👇

This hot startup is now valued at $1 billion for its A.I. skills

Snorkel AI, a startup focussed on data labeling, landed $85 million in funding and is now valued at $1 billion.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

1/ Thrilled to see @SnorkelML launch out of stealth this morning & announce its ML platform Snorkel Flow. More on our investment here: 👇 on how Snorkel’s data-first ML platform Snorkel Flow is finally making AI practical

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

Launching out of stealth today, @SnorkelML is making AI practical by solving the training data problem with a new programmatic approach. @GreylockVC GP @saammotamedi shares more on our seed & series A investment:

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

1/ Abnormal Security launches out of stealth today and is announcing their next generation cloud email security platform. We @GreylockVC are privileged to have led the $24M Series A financing and partnered with the company from the earliest stages.

Abnormal Security Launches with $24M Series A Funding from Greylock to Protect Enterprises from...

Abnormal Security today announced the launch of the company with $24M in Series A funding led by Greylock Partners and the general availability of its

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

1/ Today, Predibase comes out of stealth and we @GreylockVC unveil our Seed and Series A partnership with the team. @predibase has nailed the right abstractions for ML -- state of the art performance, with the ease of SQL -- on OSS foundations. More 👇

Introducing Predibase: the enterprise declarative machine learning platform

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

8 months

We had another wonderful AI builders dinner at @GreylockVC SF last night. Wide ranging conversation including how to progress users up the abstraction ladder in spaces like code generation and workflow automation, generative UIs and interfaces, and the merits of specialized…

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@saammotamedi

7 months

Multimodal models will unlock the next wave of AI applications. Important release from @AdeptAILabs with Fuyu-8B, an open-source multimodal model that has: - Strong general perf - Document, diagram, UI, image analysis - Low latency Check it out on HuggingFace and read more👇

Adept

@AdeptAILabs

7 months

We’re open-sourcing a multimodal model: Fuyu-8B! Building useful AI agents requires fast foundation models that can see the visual world. Fuyu-8B performs well at standard image understanding benchmarks, but it also can do a bunch of new stuff (below)

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

1 year

Very excited to welcome @jacobandreou to Greylock. Jacob has rapidly emerged as an exceptional product builder and leader, having helped build Snap from early days into a defining consumer platform, leading Product and Growth during his 8 year tenure. Excited for him to build…

Greylock

@GreylockVC

1 year

1/ @jacobandreou is the newest general partner at @GreylockVC , where he'll back founders building the next generation of consumer software. Jacob joins us after 8 years at Snap, where he most recently served as SVP of Growth.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

Adept is moving fast in building usable general intelligence. In the last 3 months, it has learned how to query databases, fetch public data, and analytics and visualization. It will soon learn all the software tools we use as it transforms how we work. Check out the video👇

Adept

@AdeptAILabs

2 years

We made a fun video of some of the earliest things our system can do! If you want to help us build useful general intelligence, please reach out -- we are hiring.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

Congratulations to @jay_srinivasan , @pratyus and the @atSpoke team on their journey building modern ticketing software, which today enters a new exciting chapter as part of @okta . Well done.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

9 months

We are looking for a talented AI researcher to join us in a Researcher in Residence role @GreylockVC . We've partnered with leading AI companies like @AbnormalSec , @AdeptAILabs , @basetenco , @Cresta , @inflectionAI , @llama_index , @SnorkelAI , and many others. Please reach out to…

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@saammotamedi

4 years

1/ Thrilled to unveil our investment in @apiiroSecurity , which is reinventing secure development lifecycle with their unified code risk platform. More 👇 and here:

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

Over last 4 years, @evanreiser @sanjays_tweets and team have built the leading AI-based email security platform which today protects more than 5% of the F500. Thrilled for @AbnormalSec to announce the Series C and accelerate their mission of leveraging AI to stop cyber crime 👇

Abnormal Security

@AbnormalSec

2 years

We're thrilled to announce the close of a $210 million Series C round led by global software investor @insightpartners , with participation from @GreylockVC and @MenloVentures . This funding will help us solve the #emailsecurity problem with unique AI.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

Sarah and I are very excited to be partnered with @Annrai , @DanBeck_LTD and @utmostpaddy as they build the extended workforce cloud. @UtmostHQ launches today. cc: @saranormous

Our Investment in Utmost

Every company today is an evolving network of work and talent that goes far beyond their own employees — they have an extended workforce…

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Great conversation with @reidhoffman where we discuss how we're partnering with new companies @GreylockVC in the post-pandemic environment.

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@GreylockVC

4 years

Investing and partnerships are still happening, in spite of #covid19 . What is the same, and what's different? Listen to @saammotamedi and @reidhoffman discuss on the latest episode of #greymatter

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

@saranormous @GreylockVC So many things to admire about you, Sarah. Very grateful for the years we got to learn, grow and partner together and all your contributions. Excited for your next play!

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

1/ @EvanReiser and I are excited to launch a new podcast today with technology leaders at the world's largest organizations. Our conversations share the fascinating stories of the technology-driven reinvention of these organizations. Subscribe here:

AI in Enterprise Software | Home

The AI in Enterprise Software Podcast Series explores how enterprise organizations drive innovation and provide protection using AI.

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@saammotamedi

2 years

1/ Excited to see @Cresta announce their Series C as they accelerate customer impact for their real-time intelligence platform. Cresta's mission is to build the future of work by building intelligent systems that make everyone 100x effective at work.

Cresta

@cresta

2 years

THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE OUR Series C funding! $80M at a $1.6B valuation led by @Tiger_Global and joined by industry leaders @Genesys , @Five9 , @jpmorgan , @Zoom , and @CarMax ! And welcoming back @sequoia , @GreylockVC , @a16z , and @PorscheVentures . (1/2)

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Very excited to see Abnormal Security partner with Microsoft to accelerate the delivery of their leading cloud email security platform to enterprises.

Evan Reiser

@evanreiser

4 years

The @WSJ just covered our new strategic alliance with Microsoft! Enterprises can now purchase Abnormal Security's cloud email security platform directly from Microsoft to stop the most sophisticated email & social engineering attacks.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

1 year

Adept raises $350M Series B -- building a foundation model for actions to deliver an AI teammate for everybody. One of the few teams in AI building an end-to-end offering. Thrilled to be in business with @jluan and team since company inception and for this important milestone.

Adept

@AdeptAILabs

1 year

We've raised $350M in new funding as part of our Series B led by @generalcatalyst and co-led by @sparkcapital (1/4)

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@saammotamedi

3 years

Cresta's expertise AI radically improves the performance of customer teams across the Fortune 500. It's been a privilege to partner with @zaydenam @timshi_ai since the Series A. Today, they announce their Series B in the pursuit of making everyone 100x as effective at work🚀

Cresta

@cresta

3 years

Today’s a big day for Cresta — we’re announcing our #SeriesB , and @carl_eschenbach of @sequoia is joining our board! He and Co-founder @zaydenam joined @Forbes @aayushipratap to talk through what's next for us.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

1 year

Modern software companies require a billing platform that's built for developers, powered by a real-time data foundation to support hybrid, consumption based pricing models. Excited to announce our Seed investment in @useorb . Very fortunate to be partnered with @alvaromorales …

TechCrunch

@TechCrunch

1 year

Orb, which helps B2B companies price their products, raises $19.1M by @kyle_l_wiggers

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

Cresta is one of the very few applied AI companies that's intersecting cutting edge technology with massive customer impact. Profiled in the @WSJ today on how they're accelerating contact center transformation for companies like Porsche, Intuit, Cox and many more. cc @zaydenam

Cresta

@cresta

3 years

Through our new partnership with @Porsche Cars North America and Porsche Financial Services, we're revolutionizing the entire automotive customer journey through AI. @zaydenam and @SebastianThrun shared more with @WSJ 's @JaredCouncil .

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

7 years

My partner @jerrychen writes about Systems of Intelligence - the new moats in enterprise software!

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

"For most of human history, coordinating among humans has been a slow, intractable effort. In the last few decades we have seen tremendous technical breakthroughs in the latencies and tooling possible to remove these constraints" @kevinakwok on the Arc of Collaboration

Kevin Kwok

@kevinakwok

5 years

New essay up. The Arc of Collaboration. - Slack is an Else Statement - There is no distinction between productivity and collaboration - The Slack of Gaming may be Discord, but the Discord for Enterprise is not Slack

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 months

Fortunate to have partnered with @rishabhmjain , Shreyas and team at Fermat at inception. Building leading AI-enabled commerce platform. 0 to hundreds of brands as customers less than a year after launching. Happy to have Scott @sfriend37 and Bain join us on the journey ahead.

Rishabh Jain

@rishabhmjain

2 months

Today we are excited to share that we raised $17M to accelerate our mission: enabling ML powered consumer experiences for ecommerce brands. We founded @fermatcommerce to help brands directly engage consumers effectively across all channels. When we talk to marketers, everyone…

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

Adidas just got a year's worth of marketing content

Ballislife.com

@Ballislife

5 years

Zion Williamson’s Nike shoe just exploded on national TV! (Via @SportsCenter )

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

6 years

First product since early iPhone where I'm not only willing to drive somewhere to get it - but am counting down the days/rearranging my calendar to do so. @SuperhumanCo mobile app 🙌

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

1/ Adept is building a new kind of foundation model: ACT-1 turns natural language into actions and workflows. Glimpse of the future of human machine collaboration and how ACT-1 will transform a number of high value workflows 👇

Adept

@AdeptAILabs

2 years

1/7 We built a new model! It’s called Action Transformer (ACT-1) and we taught it to use a bunch of software tools. In this first video, the user simply types a high-level request and ACT-1 does the rest. Read on to see more examples ⬇️

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

Snorkel announces their Series B and the launch of Application Studio. Snorkel Flow reimagines the AI lifecycle with its programmatic AI platform that accelerates the rate at which F500 enterprises get AI into production. We’re proud to have been their partners since the Seed.

Snorkel AI

@SnorkelAI

3 years

Announcing our $35M series B funding by @lightspeedvp , @greylockvc , @googleventures , In-Q-Tel, @blackrock , and @waldenvc (You might want to turn your volume on for the video 🎶)

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

Very excited to be talking about investing in ML startups at Greylock's Women Starting Up: Machine Learning Summit with @LM_Braswell . Excellent opportunity to create connections & discover startups in applied ML. Free to attend; register by Oct 18 at

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Enjoyed speaking at @StartupGrind today about the 5 types of ML startups we look to partner with at Greylock. More to come on this...

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

Thanks to all who showed up to @saammotamedi 's #startupgrind session on building an ML/AI startup. If you couldn't make it, we'll be sharing out key takeaways in next few weeks!

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

. @Opal_sec is re-imagining permissions and access management with a context-aware, API-driven platform that delivers needs-based access to accelerate developer productivity while strengthening security. Excited to see them come out of stealth 👇

Opal is helping companies ensure employees have access to the right apps | TechCrunch

The platform enables enterprises to design intelligent user access policies and automate reviews of current company access points.

techcrunch.com

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

Today, @BlendLabsInc debuts as a public company on the @NYSE -- a tremendous milestone in their journey transforming banking software by putting the consumer first. Congratulations @NGhamsari , @ErinCollard , @eugenemarinelli and team on building an iconic company. $BLND

Blend

@blendlabsinc

3 years

The bell has rung 🔔🔔🔔 Today we *officially* join @NYSE as $BLND!

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@saammotamedi

11 months

Llama Index is building the data framework for LLMs -- critical infrastructure for building AI applications. We @GreylockVC are excited to partner with @jerryjliu0 @disiok and team.

Jerry Liu

@jerryjliu0

11 months

I’m super excited to make it official: @disiok and I have started a company around @llama_index , and we’ve raised a $8.5M seed round led by @GreylockVC ! 🔥🚀 We are building the open-source data framework to unlock LLM capabilities on your private data.

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@saammotamedi

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The pace of execution and customer centricity with which the @braintrustdata team operates is breathtaking. It's no surprise that leading AI application companies like Notion, Airtable, Retool, Replit and many more use Braintrust for AI application development.

Ankur Goyal

@ankrgyl

1 month

Super excited for @braintrustdata to be part of the 2024 enterprise tech 30 list by @Wing_VC . We exist to serve our customers -- and feel very grateful to be recognized for the traction we've demonstrated so far by focusing on that. Excited for what's ahead in 2024, and beyond!

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@saammotamedi

8 months

Excited for Seth's new role as a GP at Greylock and for him to continue partnering with inception stage founders like the partnerships with @magicaltome @EspressoSys @WisetackInc and more!

Seth Rosenberg

@SethGRosenberg

8 months

While everyone rushes to back the “picks and shovels” of AI, I want to back founders trying to find “gold” - i.e create products that change how people work and live. Here are key takeaways from my new post on building lasting value in AI-first products

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2 years

Apiiro is building the leading cloud application security company. Since partnering with @idanplotnik @seldary at inception, we @GreylockVC are excited to triple down as part of the $100M Series B as we scale our platform to hundreds of enterprise customers. Onwards!

Apiiro

@ApiiroSecurity

2 years

Apiiro is excited to announce the latest round of funding led by @generalcatalyst with participation by @GreylockVC and @kleinerperkins . 📣🚀💪 #appsec #softwaresecurity #funding #devsecops #cybersecurity #infosecurity

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@saammotamedi

3 months

@jaltma Agree. Btw - Do you have time to catch up this week?

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Very proud and fortunate to have @davthack re-join us here at @GreylockVC as our newest GP. Thrilled for the next generation of entrepreneurs who will get to have his support.

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

We’re fortunate to have David Thacker ( @davthack ) back at @GreylockVC as our newest GP. He first joined us in the 2009 downturn, and we know he has the intellect, integrity, and heart to be a great partner to entrepreneurs in any environment. More:

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@saammotamedi

2 years

Excited to unveil our day 1 partnership with @StephenCobbe and team at @opal_sec . Opal finally delivers on scalable least privilege for enterprises. Today, Opal is powering next gen access and auth at modern enterprises like Databricks, Marqueta, Blend and more. More here 👇

Greylock

@GreylockVC

2 years

As every enterprise struggles to manage internal access to sensitive resources, @opal_sec bridges the gap between too little & too much access, enabling enterprises to manage access securely & at scale. @saammotamedi shares more on the seed + Series A.

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@Airbnb @Meta @PaloAltoNtwks @Workday @AbnormalSec @figma @discord @rubrikInc Edge is built to progress founders from inception to product-market fit, in deep collaboration with Greylock partners. Edge is selective and has no ownership / investment requirement. In Edge, we'll help founders find their first 5 customers and recruit their first 3 engineers.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Very excited to announce our partnership with @clubhouse

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

Thrilled to announce @GreylockVC 's investment in @clubhouse , a fast & enjoyable project management platform designed for modern software teams. @Saranormous led the round and joined the board.

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@saammotamedi

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. @AbnormalSec is building the next generation cloud email security platform. The integrity and security of digital communications is of paramount importance in an increasingly distributed world. Excited to see them announce their Series B fundraise today 🚀

Abnormal Security

@AbnormalSec

3 years

. @KenrickCai of @Forbes covers the news of our $50M Series B funding round today, and how enterprises rely on @AbnormalSec ’s AI-based threat detection to stop attacks that “older platforms cannot catch”

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@saammotamedi

2 months

excited for us at @GreylockVC to back @richardartoul @ryanworl and @warpstream_labs as they reimagine data streaming with a fully compatible Kafka streaming platfrom that's cloud-native and built directly on top of object storage

Corinne Marie Riley

@CorinneMRiley

2 months

Excited to announce that @jerrychen and I at @GreylockVC have led the Series A in @warpstream_labs . @richardartoul and @ryanworl are the epitome of cloud native technologists and have been relentless in building the future of data streaming.

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4 years

@GreylockVC 3/ @zaydenam , @timshi_ai and @SebastianThrun are extremely talented, customer centric entrepreneurs who have built the leading team in this area. We're thrilled to be supporting them and their team. Read more about our partnership with Cresta here 👇

Experts on Day One: Our Investment in Cresta

By Saam Motamedi

news.greylock.com

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@saammotamedi

4 years

Evan and I discuss the impact of COVID-19 on cybersecurity: - Digital transformation accelerating - Explosion of communication tools as work goes remote - Integrity of business comm. more important than ever @AbnormalSec 's COVID-19 resource center helps navigate these threats

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

#COVID19 & #wfh means more tech. More tech means more #cybersecurity risk. Check out the convo between @AbnormalSec CEO @evanreiser and @GreylockVC partner @saammotamedi on how businesses can adapt

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@saammotamedi

8 years

Excited to be joining the team @GreylockVC

Greylock

@GreylockVC

8 years

Thrilled to welcome @saammotamedi to our investing team! @chandna and @jerrychen share the news.

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@saammotamedi

5 months

@braintrustdata @ankrgyl @figma @GreylockVC 5/ We're also delighted to be partnering with coinvestors @eladgil , @alanaagoyal @basecasevc , and many leading CEOs. Read more about our investment in Braintrust:

Infrastructure for AI’s New Era | Greylock

greylock.com

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

7 months

Greylock 17 is the largest pool of capital dedicated to Day One investing. We've been fortunate to have been the early partners to many market defining teams, including @Airbnb , @Meta , @PaloAltoNtwks , @Workday and more recently, @AbnormalSec , @figma , @Discord , and @rubrikInc .

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

8 months

Today, we @GreylockVC are thrilled to announce our partnership with @UpwindSecurity , a new runtime-powered cloud security platform. Upwind has now raised $80M in less than a year since starting to power their mission to reinvent cloud security, and we're excited to have co-led…

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

7 months

@Airbnb @Meta @PaloAltoNtwks @Workday @AbnormalSec @figma @discord @rubrikInc Our mission at @GreylockVC is to be the best partner from Idea to IPO. Greylock 17 and Edge are important next steps in furthering that mission and we're excited to meet new entrepreneurs. Thanks @ChristineMHall @TechCrunch for covering our news:

Greylock secures $1B for its 17th fund amid launch of early-stage founders program | TechCrunch

Greylock 17 will target pre-seed, seed and Series A founders in the areas of enterprise and consumer software.

techcrunch.com

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

7 years

Pumped to be working with @jay_srinivasan @pratyus @DavidKaneda and @askspoke to reimagine workplace requests

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

Getting to inbox zero on the flight to the winter holiday feels so much sweeter when you earn this holiday photo from @SuperhumanCo

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

Fired up to have @dwadhwani join us here @GreylockVC

Greylock

@GreylockVC

5 years

1/ David Wadhwani @dwadhwani has joined the @GreylockVC partnership, and we couldn’t be more thrilled. @Chandna shares the news:

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

6 years

Couldn't be more excited for my partner @saranormous and the founders who'll get to partner with her to build the next generation of great enterprise companies @GreylockVC

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

@kevinakwok Microsoft and Intuit

Microsoft Calls Off Deal to Purchase Intuit : Merger: U.S. had sued to block acquisition of...

In a major victory for the U.S.

www.latimes.com

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

If you're looking for a holiday gift idea, @kane 's new book, transformer poetry, that reimagines poetry classics with AI is an excellent choice. cc: @jluan , who co-authored the GPT-2 paper, without which, these new works would not be possible

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 months

@RamaswmySridhar @SnowflakeDB Congratulations, Sridhar! Snowflake is very fortunate to have you lead it as CEO in the chapter ahead.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Calendar Insights by @getclockwise launches today. 2020 goal: increase focus time. I’m ⬆️ High on meetings and ⬇️ Low on Focus Time Get in control of your time here:

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

. @SnorkelAI is powering production machine learning applications at many of the world's largest enterprises. Excited for more of these customer stories to be shared. Read about how @ChubbNA is delivering data-centric AI with Snorkel Flow 👇

Snorkel AI

@SnorkelAI

3 years

We are honored to partner with @ChubbNA to deliver data-centric AI at an enterprise scale. Discover how Chubb, the world's largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, used Snorkel Flow #DataCentricAI #SnorkelFlow #EnterpriseAI ↓

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@saammotamedi

2 years

6/ The next phase of AI will come from building products that people use today – but that also contain the seeds of generality for the future. Adept is doing exactly this, and we're excited to bring Greylock's expertise in enterprise products to bear.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

If you're building a new commerce or marketplace business, @mduboe should be your first call. Incredibly thoughtful, hands-on and excellent to work with.

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

Today, more than ever, technology is touching every aspect of consumers’ lives. We’re excited to have @mduboe helping entrepreneurs who are building the next generation of commerce, marketplaces, and network-oriented businesses.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

6 years

Incredibly pumped to have Sridhar join us here @GreylockVC

Greylock

@GreylockVC

6 years

Welcome Sridhar Ramaswamy as a venture partner at @GreylockVC . @Chandna and @ReidHoffman share the news.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Brett is amazingly talented at asking great questions that lead to fantastic conversations. Excited for this.

Brett Berson

@brettberson

4 years

We've taken all of the learnings from @firstround Review and brought them to a podcast format we're calling "In Depth." I'm thrilled to host our very first season and can't wait to hear what you think. Please consider subscribing to follow this new journey.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

7 years

Excited to announce @GreylockVC 's investment in @blendlabsinc ! Powering the next generation of consumer lending

Our Investment in Blend

In 2016, there was more than $2.1 trillion dollars in mortgages issued in the U.S. alone. Despite the staggering size of the mortgage…

news.greylock.com

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

My partner @jerrychen on the shift to a new generation of cloud only companies, and the wave of opportunities this evolution is creating for entrepreneurs 👇

Jerry Chen

@jerrychen

3 years

In 2006 with the launch of AWS began the cloud infra era. This followed the dawn of SaaS led by Salesforce and Workday. For the past 15 years we saw the platform shift to cloud. We are now seeing a new generation of cloud only companies

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@saammotamedi

3 years

Apiiro is reinventing the secure development lifecycle with its code risk platform. Enterprises accelerate development speed and strengthen security with @ApiiroSecurity . 2 big recognitions this week: ✅ Gartner Cool Vendor in DevSecOps ✅ #RSAC Most Innovative Startup Winner

RSA Conference

@RSAConference

3 years

🎉🎈🥳 #RSAC Most Innovative Startup 2021, winner of the RSAC Innovation Sandbox Contest is...... @ApiiroSecurity ! Congratulations!

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

Wonderful conversation between my partner @davidsze and @HarryStebbings on 20min VC. David shares amazing insight into how we invest here @GreylockVC

Greylock

@GreylockVC

3 years

On @twentyminutevc w/ @HarryStebbings , @GreylockVC ’s @davidsze shares lessons from early investments in @LinkedIn , @Facebook , @Nextdoor , @Discord , the rise of pre-emptive rounds, thoughts on price discipline, and how truly strong VC partnerships function.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

ICYMI: @evanreiser and I spoke to @shamimcio , CIO at Carmax, about the transformation of Carmax from a retail-first to a digital-first company. Hear more about this and Carmax's transformation into a technology driven company on ESI:

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 months

. @tuhinone and team at @basetenco are building best-in-class infrastructure to power next gen AI products. Growing incredibly quickly with a high performance, production grade solution.

Tuhin Srivastava

@tuhinone

2 months

We raised a $40M Series B to power the next generation of AI products with best-in-class infrastructure. In the last year, companies like @DescriptApp @MeetGamma @PicnicHealth , @Writer , @Patreon and @usebland have scaled inference on Baseten — all with zero minutes of downtime.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

Delighted to back @clattner_llvm @iamtimdavis and team @Modular_AI . Modular is building a next gen AI developer platform, hardware and framework agnostic, built for high production scale. One of the most talented teams building in infrastructure. Read more👇

Modular

@Modular

2 years

We're building a next generation AI developer platform, and we are proud to partner with @GVteam , @GreylockVC , FactoryHQ and notable angels who are funding our $30M seed round. #ai #ml #machinelearning #ArtificialIntelligence

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

7 years

Check out these handpicked tools to boost your office productivity - built by @askspoke 🎉

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 months

@alanaagoyal @GreylockVC @braintrustdata Alana, I am the lucky one! You set the bar for what it means to continually deliver and leverage your talent and customer network for founders. I learn from you everyday and any enterprise founder would be fortunate to have you in their corner. Excited to be partnering again…

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

@speechu For >5m ARR businesses, where there’s some repeatability demonstrated, have seen 100x

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

@chetanp cc @AbnormalSec

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Very excited for @RamaswmySridhar and @vivek7ue to launch Neeva and the reimagination of search cc @GreylockVC

Greylock

@GreylockVC

4 years

. @Neevaco is reimagining search as ad-free and privacy first. @GreylockVC is proud to have backed @RamaswmySridhar @vivek7ue & the Neeva team on this important mission. @chandna & @Reidhoffman share more:

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

10 months

@aashaysanghvi_ @oneabhishek @oneabhishek is exceptional

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

@kevinakwok 😂 Clear takeaway is to stop tweeting about startups, and keep tweeting about extraterrestrial life

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

@GreylockVC 2/ @evanreiser and @sanjays_tweets are two exceptional entrepreneurs and have built a world-class team to leverage behavioral analysis technology to stop targeted email attacks. @chandna and I write about our partnership with @AbnormalSec 👇

Our Investment in Abnormal Security

By Asheem Chandna and Saam Motamedi

news.greylock.com

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

@zackkanter Good list. + @AbnormalSec for email security + @ApiiroSecurity for application / code risk + @tines_io for automation

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

4 years

Enjoyed this conversation with @roshanchandna and @_TheTakeoff

Roshan Chandna

@roshanchandna

4 years

You don't want to miss this edition of @_TheTakeoff . @saammotamedi provided some invaluable advice for aspiring founders and VCs, chatted about the future of AI & ML, discussed how COVID has changed the industry and his mindset, and more.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

6 years

A must listen! My partner @jerrychen shares the fundamentals of structuring risk assessment in startups on @twentyminutevc with @HarryStebbings . Fair warning: be prepared for "frameworks on frameworks"

The Twenty Minute VC

@twentyminutevc

6 years

Following episodes with @johnolilly @saranormous stoked to release our latest episode with @jerrychen @GreylockVC on why great investors have to be optimistic and the 2 fundamentals to assessing risk effectively! #startup #founder #vc #entrepreneur

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

@kane @jmelaskyriazi @ComplexMusic Life is a gamble, and I’m all about my poker chips

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

Very excited that Holly Rose has joined us here @GreylockVC

Holly Rose Faith

@HollyRoseFaith

5 years

I've officially started at @GreylockVC ! They have a proven track record of understanding how important executive talent is for attracting the best talent and building great companies. Here are my thoughts as to why I joined the firm.

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

2 years

@saranormous @w_conviction Congrats, Sarah! 🎉

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

5 years

@kevinakwok can I subscribe to your email outbox? :)

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Saam Motamedi

@saammotamedi

3 years

@kevinakwok @laurynisford @jerrychen @johnolilly do you want to come over and try it now? won’t charge you anything

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