For Greylock, from 🤫 hussh
Four new categories, built on consent.
Greylock has helped create whole categories, from the first check onward. We are creating four, all on consent and ownership, all on open rails. Here they are, mapped to your record, so the dots are easy to connect from your side of the table.
Why Greylock
You make categories real.
Greylock's edge is backing category-defining companies in enterprise, security, infrastructure and now AI, writing the first check and building beside founders from day one. That is the muscle it takes to establish something genuinely new.
We are not building one product. We are building the private, sovereign side of AI: the agent, the computer, the grid and the tag a person owns. Your counsel on how categories get named and made real would mean a great deal to us.
- Since 1965
- Founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the oldest venture firms, now in Menlo Park and San Francisco.Greylock, About
- Greylock 17
- A $1B fund announced October 3, 2023, for Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A founders in enterprise and consumer software, built around AI-first companies.Announcing Greylock 17
- Day one
- A first-partner investor: with Greylock 17, the firm noted that over 80% of its investments were Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A.Announcing Greylock 17
- Greylock Edge
- A hands-on program that takes founders from pre-idea to product-market fit, with financing, early design partners and recruiting.Greylock Edge
The record
Decades of category wins.
Named from Greylock's public portfolio.
Enterprise & networks: LinkedIn, Workday, Cloudera, Palo Alto Networks
Category-defining companies in professional networks, HR software, data platforms and next-generation security.
Security & infrastructure: Palo Alto Networks, Sumo Logic, Rubrik, Abnormal Security
A decades-long record in the security and infrastructure categories that own-your-data and own-your-compute now extend.
AI-first: Anthropic, and a fund built around AI-first companies
An AI-first thesis, backing frontier and applied AI from the first check.
The four categories
What we are creating, mapped to your muscle.
The private agent
🤫 Private Agent OneA personal AI the person owns, that answers only to them, gated by consent with a receipt for every access. Free for every American.
Where it meets Greylock: Security and trust is Greylock's deepest category, and its thesis is now AI-first. A consent-first personal agent sits right at that intersection: trust as architecture, on top of AI.
Privately owned personal supercomputing
🤫 Puppy OneA personal supercomputer owned outright, running the person's own agent and workloads at top priority, at home.
Where it meets Greylock: Owning your compute reframes the infrastructure category Greylock has backed for decades, from silicon to data platforms.
The AI Factory
🤫 Grid One (garage and small warehouse) + 🤫 Factory One (larger warehouse)A distributed, owned edge-supercomputing grid: 🤫 Puppy One machines in American garages and warehouses with cheap power and good cooling, on Starlink or core fiber, earning by renting idle capacity back to the neighborhood, by consent, with a receipt for every job.
Where it meets Greylock: Infrastructure plus a marketplace with real network effects, owned by the people who host it. Category creation where infrastructure meets marketplaces.
Privately owned tags
🤫 Tag OneA wearable for the people you love, so they can stay in touch and share where they are just by talking to their own 🤫 Agent One. Tenderness, not tracking.
Where it meets Greylock: The consent-and-ownership software layer on the device, which keeps it inside Greylock's software and trust DNA.
Connect the dots
From your point of view.
You create categories. We are creating four.
Private agents, privately owned supercomputing, the AI Factory and privately owned tags, all built on consent and ownership, on open rails.
A consumer wedge, an infrastructure moat
🤫 Private Agent One is free for every American. Underneath it is an owned-compute grid with marketplace network effects, the infrastructure that compounds.
Consent-first is a security category
Owning and permissioning your own data and compute is trust and security, in the lineage of the security companies Greylock helped build, now extended to the individual and the edge.
Where a day-one partner matters most
Sequencing the consumer wedge, the developer ecosystem and the owned-compute grid without splitting focus. Zero-to-category work.
What a day-one partner helps with
Three moves, one focus.
The consumer wedge, 🤫 Private Agent One, free for every American. The developer ecosystem on open rails, the Personal Consent Handshake Protocol, composable over MCP, A2A, AP2 and UCP. And the owned-compute grid, 🤫 Grid One in the garage and 🤫 Factory One in the warehouse, placed where power is cheap, cooling is abundant and the network is close.
Sequencing those three without splitting focus is the zero-to-category journey. We would love your counsel on it.
Counsel first, conversation always