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Greylock
States that over 80 percent of its investments are the first check into a company, and that many start on a whiteboard. Greylock 17 is a $1 billion fund intentionally focused on pre-seed, seed, and Series A.
Criteria: AI-first companies across cybersecurity, infrastructure, SaaS, consumer, marketplaces and commerce, fintech and crypto. Greylock Edge, a three month programme for pre-idea, pre-seed and seed founders, takes rolling open applications; Greylock states Edge companies are not required to take Greylock capital, that financing may be a priced round, an uncapped SAFE, or none at all, and includes over $500,000 in cloud credits.
What this means for your pitchFor a technical founder who is pre-company, Edge is among the best value doors in venture: an open application, no obligation to take their money, and real compute credits. It costs an afternoon rather than a network.
Greylock EdgeChecked 16 August 2026
From Greylock's own site and announcements · checked 26 August 2026 · selective, not comprehensive · verify on the firm's pages
Greylock announced Greylock 18, a $1.5 billion early stage venture fund focused on AI opportunities across the economy. The firm states that each partner makes only one or two new investments a year.
Greylock co-led a $60 million seed round in Oak alongside Accel and CRV. Oak builds an AI native identity governance platform that replaces fragmented legacy identity tools with a single control plane, addressing the growth of machine and AI agent identities in enterprises.
Greylock led a seed round in Niteshift, with participation from Amplify, Box Group, and SV Angel. Niteshift is a cloud platform that runs coding agents inside fully configured development environments, letting teams switch between agents without rebuilding their environments.