Asheem Chandna
Investor at Seven AI
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2003 - Current
Founded in 1965, Greylock Partners is a leading venture capital firm. We invest in technology companies in two primary areas - consumer internet and enterprise IT, and across all company stages - seed, early and growth. Notable consumer investments include Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Redfin and Nextdoor. Notable enterprise investments include Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Pure Storage, Okta, Rubrik, AppDynamics, Cloudera, Imperva, Arista and ServiceNow. Forbes (April 2017) - How Greylock VC Asheem Chandna Keeps Racking Up Billion-Dollar Outcomes - http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/04/18/greylock-vc-asheem-chandna-backs-billion-dollar-wins/ WSJ VC Dispatch (Dec 2012) - VC in 2013: Asheem Chandna of Greylock on the 'Trillion Dollar Opportunity' for Investors - http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/12/21/vc-in-2013-asheem-chandna-of-greylock-on-the-trillion-dollar-opportunity-for-investors/ VentureBeat (Nov 2012) - Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft - http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/27/enterprise-investors/2/ Bloomberg (Aug 2012) - Greylock Follows Facebook Win With Business Software IPOs - http://go.bloomberg.com/tech-deals/2012-08-31-greylock-follows-facebook-win-with-business-software-ipos/ New York Times (Apr. 2012) - One on One: Asheem Chandna, Venture Capitalist - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/one-on-one-asheem-chandna-venture-capitalist/ Forbes (Feb. 2012) - Five Tips for Aspiring Venture Investors - http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2012/02/24/five-tips-for-aspiring-venture-investors/
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Board of Trustees
2025
IQT is the premier partner trusted to identify, evaluate and leverage emerging commercial technologies for the U.S. national security community and America’s allies. Led by Steve Bowsher (CEO).
IQT identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver solutions.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors
2023
Reinventing the SOC with AI. Founded by Lior Div (CEO) and Yonatan Striem Amit (CTO). Both previously founded Cybereason.
Seven AI pioneers cybersecurity solutions that use powerful AI technology to defend enterprises from digital attacks.
Raised $36,000,000.00 from Greylock, Spark Capital and CRV.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors
2021
Transforming ERP implementations with AI. Founded by Rajiv Gupta (CEO) and Kaushik Narayan (CTO). Both previously founded Skyhigh Networks.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors
2021
Kodem is redefining application security. Kodem Dynamic is the industry's only software composition analysis (SCA) platform that uses runtime intelligence to determine actual application risk. Founded by Aviv Mussinger, Idan Burtura and Pavel Furman, three very accomplished technology leaders who previously worked together at the the NSO Group.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors
2018
The Abnormal Security cloud email security platform protects enterprises from targeted email attacks. Founded by Evan Reiser and Sanjay Jeyakumar, both of whom previously worked together at Twitter.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors
2017
Obsidian Security is applying artificial intelligence to enable user security for enterprise hybrid cloud environments. Recruiting and building product team in Newport Beach: apply@obsidiansecurity.com Led by Hasan Iman (CEO). Founded by Glenn Chisholm (previously Cylance, Telstra), Ben Johnson (previously Carbon Black, NSA), and Matt Wolff (previously Cylance, NSA).
Obsidian Security is a threat detection and posture management for business-critical saas applications.
Raised $119,500,000.00 from IVP, Norwest Venture Partners, Innovation Valley Partners, Wing Venture Capital, Google Ventures, Greylock and Menlo Ventures.
Investor and Board of Directors
2015
Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK) is on a mission to secure the world’s data. The Rubrik founding team consists of Bipul Sinha (previously at Lightspeed where he was the founding investor and board member at Nutanix, PernixData, Hootsuite); Arvind Jain (Google Distinguished Engineer, founding engineer of Riverbed); Soham Mazumdar (Google Staff Engineer, co-founder of Teragoogle, Google Founder’s Award recipient); and Arvind Nithrakashyap (co-founder of Oracle Exadata).
Rubrik offers live data access for recovery and application development by fusing enterprise data management with web-scale IT.
Raised $554,300,000.00 from Spellman Investment Group, SharesPro, Raison, Red Lions Capital, MS&AD Ventures and Irving Investors.
Investor
2012
Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) is a leading supplier of cloud networking solutions. Led by Jayshree Ullal. Founded by Andy Bechtolsheim, Ken Duda and Dave Cheriton. Jayshree and Andy were named the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2015 National Overall Award winners.
Arista Networks is a computer networking firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments.
Raised $7,400,092.00 from Summit Partners and Saidler & Co. Capital.
Mentor
2011
StartX is an educational non-profit that accelerates the development of Stanford University's top entrepreneurs through experiential education and collective intelligence.
Education
M.S.
1986 - 1988
B.S.
1982 - 1986
High School
1970 - 1980