Backing the new wave of buying experiences.
Greylock has a long history of early-stage partnership with networks & marketplaces across consumer and b2b domains. As former growth and product practitioners, we’ve long been obsessed with building levers to establish network effects businesses. These models can be very challenging to get off the ground, but when they work, they can really work. And these learnings compound – our early investments in iconic consumer marketplaces like Airbnb and Redfin yielded more recent investments in the current wave of B2B and labor marketplaces like Instawork or Inventa.
While marketplaces are one commerce business model we love, we are also excited to partner with application & infrastructure layer projects powering the next wave of consumer & b2b commerce. And just as AI will enable the next wave of service- and vertical marketplaces, we also believe AI will amplify new sales & marketing channels like Postscript with SMS, and accelerate adoption of B2B commerce solutions in older industries, like Pepper with foodservice.
In 2010, Airbnb was still in its early days. But it was clear that co-founders Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia and Nate Blecharczyk had a transformational idea: to redefine the travel experience with a platform powered by individuals. Instead of another travel booking website, they built a living system, with human connection and a sense of belonging at the center of it all. Within a year, Airbnb was worth more than $1 billion, and in December 2020, the company went public (Nasdaq: ABNB). Today, travelers and locals alike can belong anywhere by booking one of millions of listings and thousands of experiences across hundreds of countries and regions.
Airbnb is one of the world’s largest marketplaces for unique, authentic places to stay and things to do, offering over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. An economic empowerment engine, Airbnb has helped millions of hospitality entrepreneurs monetize their spaces and their passions while keeping the financial benefits of tourism in their own communities. With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date, and accessible in 62 languages across 220+ countries and regions, Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust around the world.
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce
Series A
Public
Reid Hoffman
Brian Chesky, CEO & Co-Founder
Joe Gebbia, CPO & Co-Founder
Nathan Blecharczyk, CTO & Co-Founder
San Francisco, CA | USA
Bringing modern consumer discovery & transaction experiences to the B2B world.
AmplifyMD connects medical institutions with a lack of specialty access – often in rural or small regions of the United States – to a network of leading specialists. The company provides both the clinical team as well as the software to streamline and automate virtual care delivery and billing workflows and integrates seamlessly with hospitals’ existing EHRs.
Marketplace & Commerce
Seed
Active
David Thacker
Meena Mallipeddi, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Anand Nathan, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Los Gatos, CA
Convoy is the most efficient digital freight network. We connect shippers to carriers to move millions of truckloads, saving money for shippers, reducing hassle for carriers, and eliminating carbon waste for our planet. We use technology and data to solve problems of waste and inefficiency in the $800B trucking industry, which generates over 76M metric tons of wasted CO2 emissions from empty trucks. Shippers like Anheuser-Busch, CHEP, and Waiākea trust Convoy to lower costs, increase logistics efficiency, and achieve environmental sustainability targets.
Marketplace & Commerce
Series B
Active
Reid Hoffman
Dan Lewis, CEO & Co-Founder
Grant Goodale, CTO & Co-Founder
Seattle, WA | USA
Instawork is the leading flexible staffing solution for local, hourly professionals. Its digital marketplace connects thousands of businesses and more than one million workers in the U.S., filling a critical role in local economies. Instawork helps businesses in food & beverage, hospitality, and warehouse/logistics industries fill temporary and permanent job opportunities in more than 25 U.S. markets.
Marketplace & Commerce
Series C
Active
Christine Kim, David Thacker
Sumir Meghani, CEO & Co-Founder
San Francisco, CA | USA
Inventa is a B2B marketplace that connects brands and retailers on a easy to use platform, offering a comprehensive portfolio at suitable prices, empowering and supporting them to grow their business with less financial risk.
Marketplace & Commerce
Series A
Active
Mike Duboe
Marcos Salama, Founder & CEO
Fernando Carrasco, Co-founder & CDO
Laura Camargo, Co-Founder, CFO & People
São Paulo, Brazil
Novi Connect is a secure platform and marketplace for brands, manufacturers, and suppliers to develop products that meet all the complexities of today’s market faster and with total transparency. Novi provides brands and manufacturers access to a data rich, transparent experience where they can discover, purchase and manage materials to develop products end-to-end. For suppliers, Novi helps market and sell their ingredients and raw materials, and streamline communication with their partners.
Marketplace & Commerce
Series A
Active
Mike Duboe, Christine Kim
Kimberly Shenk, Founder & CEO
Distributed
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce, SaaS
Series B
Active
James Slavet
Heather Fernandez, CEO & Co-Founder
Daniele Farnedi, CTO & Co-Founder
San Francisco, CA | USA
Connecting consumers with products and services.
Airbnb is one of the world’s largest marketplaces for unique, authentic places to stay and things to do, offering over 7 million accommodations and 40,000 handcrafted activities, all powered by local hosts. An economic empowerment engine, Airbnb has helped millions of hospitality entrepreneurs monetize their spaces and their passions while keeping the financial benefits of tourism in their own communities. With more than half a billion guest arrivals to date, and accessible in 62 languages across 220+ countries and regions, Airbnb promotes people-to-people connection, community and trust around the world.
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce
Series A
Public
Reid Hoffman
Brian Chesky, CEO & Co-Founder
Joe Gebbia, CPO & Co-Founder
Nathan Blecharczyk, CTO & Co-Founder
San Francisco, CA | USA
Beek’s mission is to empower people to live the life of their dreams through their headphones. We do this by helping local creators share and monetize the best audio content, and by helping users discover, listen, and remember it. At Beek, we’re building the audio content marketplace for all non-English speaking markets currently underserved in local language content, starting with the 572 million Hispanics in the world.
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce
Seed
Active
Mike Duboe
Pamela Valdés, CEO & Co-founder
Guillermo Sequeira, CPO & Co-founder
Mexico City
GoFundMe is the world’s largest and most trusted free online fundraising platform that makes it easy to help others and turn compassion into action. The GoFundMe community has raised over $9 billion from more than 120 million donations for people, causes, and organizations. GoFundMe is changing the way the world gives.
Marketplace & Commerce
Series A
Active
James Slavet
Tim Cadogan, CEO
Redwood City, CA | USA
Magic Eden is the #1 NFT marketplace on Solana. Our mission is to be the destination for discovering, trading, and creating NFTs. In its first two months since launch, Magic Eden has done ~$200M in trading volume to become the dominant NFT platform on Solana.
Fintech & Crypto, Marketplace & Commerce
Series A
Active
Mike Duboe, Christine Kim
Zhouxun Yin, Co-Founder
Jack Lu, Co-Founder
Mountain View, CA | USA
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce
Series D
Public
James Slavet
Glenn Kelman, President & CEO
Seattle, WA | USA
Enabling the next generation of B2B and B2C commerce.
Builder.io is a drag and drop visual builder that works with any site, app, and ecommerce store. It enables digital teams — ecommerce, product, marketing, growth — to move faster by breaking free from constantly relying on developers.
Infrastructure, Marketplace & Commerce, SaaS
Seed
Active
Mike Duboe, Corinne Riley
Steve Sewell, Co-Founder & CEO
Brent Locks, Co-Founder & COO
Distributed
Curated is an ecommerce platform that helps consumers understand differences between products by connecting them with passionate experts who share their first-hand knowledge and expertise.
Consumer, Marketplace & Commerce
Series B
Active
David Thacker
Eduardo Vivas, CEO
Annabel Liu, VP Engineering
Peter Ombres, COO
Alex Vauthey, CTO
San Francisco, CA | USA
FERMÀT is the next generation of influencer driven e-commerce, where influencers and brands collide. FERMÀT provides the tooling and the network to enable distributed commerce. We help brands easily embed shopping experiences in influencer content, so the influencer’s audience has a native, engaging shopping experience.
AI, Marketplace & Commerce
Seed
Active
Saam Motamedi
Rishabh Jain, CEO
Shreyas Kumar, CTO
San Francisco, CA
Pepper is the eCommerce platform for food distributors. Thousands of restaurants, grocery stores, and convenience stores, across N. America, order from their distributors on an ordering system that’s powered by Pepper. On average, food distributors using Pepper see 14% sales growth and 77% reduction in order entry time.
Marketplace & Commerce, SaaS
Seed
Active
Mike Duboe
Bowie Cheung, Co-Founder
Chetan Narain, Co-Founder
Ivana Tesanovic, Co-Founder
New York City, NY | Remote
Postscript is the leading ecommerce SMS platform that enables brands to communicate and engage with customers through text message marketing. Built to connect directly with Shopify and Shopify Plus merchants, Postscript provides technology for brands to segment lists, create deep data flows, and respect the inbox of consumers.
Marketplace & Commerce, SaaS
Series B
Active
Mike Duboe
Adam Turner, CEO
Colin Turner, COO
Alex Beller, President
Postscript is a fully remote company.
Treat empowers D2C marketers and brands to unlock the power of their data to fuel creative strategies, effortlessly generate high quality on-brand visuals, and achieve true personalization at scale. Treat’s AI intelligently uncovers the creative concepts that resonate with your target audience and combines them with customer behavior, preferences, and demographic data to generate highly personalized content that drives results.
Marketplace & Commerce
Seed
Active
Mike Duboe
Matt Osman, Co-Founder & CEO
Hugh Hunter, Co-Founder & CTO
New York, NY
Tydo organizes complex data for DTC brands into rich and intuitive dashboards. Data that you can use to make clear decisions and take deliberate action on. Data that moves with the currents of your business.
Marketplace & Commerce
Seed
Active
Mike Duboe
Scott Sonneborn
Manav Kohli
Vori makes supermarkets more efficient by connecting data across the food supply chain and digitizing workflows and analog data.
Marketplace & Commerce
Seed
Active
Mike Duboe
Brandon Hill
Matt Osman, Treat CEO; Rishabh Jain, Fermat Co-founder and CEO & analyst and investor Eric Seufert
How Inventa’s B2B Marketplace is Transforming LatAm Retail
Harley Finkelstein, Shopify President
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