JR

Jason Risch

Partner at Greylock Partners

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $200,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

    I focus on enterprise investments across cybersecurity, AI/ML, and cloud infra. Involved investments include: Seven AI, LlamaIndex, Kodem, Cribl, Bedrock, Predibase, and Blockaid. Greylock Partners backs entrepreneurs who are building disruptive, market-transforming consumer and enterprise software companies, including the teams at Facebook, LinkedIn, AirBnB, Workday, Palo Alto Networks, Okta, Abnormal Security, AppDynamics, Rubrik, and Figma.

2018 - 2019

  • Product and Investor

    2018 - 2019

    Founded by Dr. Andrew Ng, AI Fund is a startup studio that builds new AI companies from the ground up. I operated portfolio companies from inception to seed funding, including prototyping products, signing initial customers, and recruiting the founding team. Companies I started while at AI Fund include https://bearing.ai/ and https://www.credo.ai/. AI Fund's investors include Sequoia, Greylock, NEA, and SoftBank.

2017 - 2018

  • Management Consultant

    2017 - 2018

    Tech practice

2016 - 2017

  • Business Operations

    2016 - 2017

    Focused on operationalizing changes to the house-purchasing process and optimizing pricing models to improve unit economics.

  • Mayfield Fellow

    2015 - 2016

    Selected as one of twelve Fellows from Stanford University for intensive nine-month training program on developing a theoretical understanding, practical knowledge, and leadership skills related to growing startup technology companies

2015 - 2015

  • Data Science

    2015 - 2015

    Worked in Python and R to develop a recommendation system for events. Techniques included Latent Dirichlet Allocation for NLP topic modeling, collaborative filtering for implicit feedback, and time series analysis. Analyzed user behavior through Mixpanel, SQL, and Pandas.