Greylock invests four top technology start-ups in America

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords Greylock
Beijing time January 13 afternoon news, with the investment in Groupon, the U.S. venture capital company Greylock to join the Silicon Valley VIP club.  Greylock is one of only two Silicon Valley venture capital companies that have taken stakes in at least 4 online start-ups valued at $ billions of trillion. Before investing in Groupon, Greylock was one of the first institutional investors in Facebook and LinkedIn. Greylock Partner Hoffman (Reid Hoffman), an early investor at Zynga, still holds the company's board of directors.  Of the other venture capitalists, only the Anderson Hollowitz (Andreessen Horowitz) Fund Anderson (Marc Andreessen) holds a stake in the Internet venture. Greylock was founded in 1965 by Bill Avers (Bill elfers) and Dan Gregory (Dan Gregory), originally located on the east coast of the United States, and was not moved from Boston to Silicon Valley until 2009. The company missed a group of popular internet companies in the 90 's. It was the age of Sequoia Capital, Kleiner and benchmark, who then funded well-known companies such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon and ebay.  Greylock until recently grew up to be the industry leader. "On the East Coast, Greylock is old-fashioned, and on the West Coast it becomes trendy and cool." "Today, he has become the leader in the Internet industry and has invested in a number of popular companies," said Jeff Clavier, founder of VC Softtech, the US venture capital company Jeff Clevers. "Even for established venture capitalists, it is not easy to be an investor in a popular company like Groupon.  This is because the market has strong demand for corporate equity, which has been recognised for growth, and start-ups want to attract investors who can influence their strategy. Unlike its earlier goals, Groupon is worth billions of of dollars before Greylock shares. This week, Greylock with Anderson Hollowitz and Kleiner to invest $950 million trillion in Groupon, valued at about $4.75 billion trillion.  People familiar with the matter said Greylock's investment was $ tens of millions of trillion. According to Nyppex, a two-tier US market research firm, there are 5 Internet startups currently valued at more than 1 billion dollars, including Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, Twitter and LinkedIn. (Ding Macro)
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