Where does Jerry Chen work?

Jerry Chen is General Partner at Greylock Partners and Board director at SuperApp and Board Member (Greylock Partners board partner) at Rhumbix and Board director at Docker.

What check size does Jerry Chen write?

Jerry Chen typically writes checks of $500K – $200M.

Where did Jerry Chen go to school?

Jerry Chen studied at Stanford University (BS, Industrial Engineering); Harvard Business School (MBA).

Jerry Chen

Investor

General Partner at Greylock Partners · Board director at SuperApp · Board Member (Greylock Partners board partner) at Rhumbix · Board director at Docker

Palo Alto, California

Writes $500K – $200M checks · typically $25M

About

Jerry Chen coined the Systems of Intelligence framework linking AI and data to enterprise defensibility, and as an early champion of Docker and containers became a go-to investor for cloud-native founders.

Contact· published on Jerry's own website

j•••@greylock.comreveal

Likely emails· guessed from name + firm domain, not firm-published

Invests in

AI & Machine LearningConsumerCybersecurityFintechSaaS

Board director at SuperApp

Intro paths

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In turn, Jerry can intro founders to SuperApp's investors below.

SuperApp's investors · 12

Andreessen HorowitzMenlo Park · $500K – $50M checks · since 2025 Evolution VC PartnersNew York Evolution VenturesSan Francisco Glynn Capital ManagementMenlo Park Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks · since 2025 Index VenturesSan Francisco · $540K – $10.8M checks · since 2025 New Enterprise Associates (NEA)Menlo Park · $200K – $40M checks · since 2025 Original CapitalMiami SC VenturesSingapore Spark CapitalSan Francisco · $500K – $25M checks Tribe CapitalLas Vegas · $25K – $75M checks Tribe Capital FirstlookPalo Alto · $25K – $40M checks

Co-founders at SuperApp

Anant BhardwajFounder and CEO

Board Member (Greylock Partners board partner) at Rhumbix

Intro paths

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In turn, Jerry can intro founders to Rhumbix's investors below.

Rhumbix's investors · 9

Blackhorn VenturesDenver · $500K checks Brick Mortar VenturesSan Francisco Glynn Capital ManagementMenlo Park Greylock PartnersSan Francisco · $100K – $200M checks · since 2015 Grit VenturesMenlo Park · $100K – $1M checks Kleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks TENFORE HOLDINGSNew York TFX CapitalFort Mill · $250K – $750K checks U.S. Air Forcesince 2019

Co-founders at Rhumbix

Drew DeWaltCOO & Co-Founder

Zach (Zachary) ScheelCEO & Co-Founder

Board director at Docker YC S10

Intro paths

Jerry went through Y Combinator (Summer 2010) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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In turn, Jerry can intro founders to Docker's investors below.

Docker's investors · 23

Co-founders at Docker

Solomon HykesFounder/CEO

Kamel FounadiCo-Founder

Sebastien PahlCo-Founder

Experience

GreylockGeneral Partnercurrent2013 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
NiteshiftInvestorcurrent2025 — present
MandolinInvestor and Board Membercurrent2025 — present
LlamaIndexInvestor and Board Directorcurrent2023 — present
OnehouseInvestor and Board Directorcurrent2021 — present
NotableInvestorcurrent2017 — present
BlendInvestor and Board Directorcurrent2017 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Cato NetworksInvestor and Board Directorcurrent2016 — presentTel Aviv Area, Israel
InstabaseInvestorcurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Gladly, Inc.Investor and Board Directorcurrent2015 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
Docker, Inc.Investorcurrent2013 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
RhumbixInvestor2015 — 2026San Francisco Bay Area
ChronosphereInvestor and Board Director2019 — 2026
BlueskyInvestor and Board Director2022 — 2025
WarpStreamInvestor and Board Director2023 — 2024
Rockset (acquired by OpenAI)Investor and Board Director2016 — 2024
TrueraInvestor and Board Director2019 — 2024
atSpoke (Acquired by Okta)Investor and Board Director2017 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
Attic Labs, Inc.Investor and Board Director2015 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
ClouderaBoard Observer2014 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
VMware, Inc.Vice President Cloud and Application Services2003 — 2013San Francisco Bay Area
Accel PartnersAssociate2000 — 2002
AEA Investors LPAssociate1998 — 2000
Bain and CompanyAssociate Consultant1996 — 1998

Skills & more

VMware99NoSQL2Enterprise Software99SaaS51Open Source8Apache2Software as a Service (SaaS)7Product Management99Product Marketing58Virtualization99Cloud Computing99Platform Architecture2

+12 more

Big DataPaaSDistributed SystemsStorageSolution ArchitectureProfessional ServicesGo-to-market StrategyVDISales EnablementHigh AvailabilityBusiness AlliancesData Center

From Jerry's professional profile.

Colleagues at Greylock Partners

Aneel Bhusri

Partner at Greylock Partners

Ani Narayan

Scout at Greylock Partners

Ankit Mathur

Scout at Greylock Partners

Asheem Chandna

Partner at Greylock focused on enterprise, cybersecurity, and infrastructure software

Bill Elfers

Founding Partner at Greylock Partners

Bob Henderson

Special Limited Partner at Greylock Partners

Bukky Adebayo

Scout at Greylock Partners

Charlie Waite

Founding Partner at Greylock Partners

Network6

Brian Singerman

Co-founder of GPx; Partner Emeritus at Founders Fund

Alexis Le-Quoc

Co-founder & CTO of Datadog

Asheem Chandna

Partner at Greylock focused on enterprise, cybersecurity, and infrastructure software

Christine Kim

Partner at Greylock Partners

Corinne Riley

Partner at Greylock Partners

David Wadhwani

Venture Partner at Greylock Partners

Investors connected to Jerry in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Jerry Chen?: Jerry Chen coined the Systems of Intelligence framework linking AI and data to enterprise defensibility, and as an early champion of Docker and containers became a go-to investor for cloud-native founders.
Where does Jerry Chen work?: Jerry Chen is General Partner at Greylock Partners and Board director at SuperApp and Board Member (Greylock Partners board partner) at Rhumbix and Board director at Docker.
What does Jerry Chen invest in?: Jerry Chen invests in AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Cybersecurity, Fintech, SaaS.
What check size does Jerry Chen write?: Jerry Chen typically writes checks of $500K – $200M.
Where did Jerry Chen go to school?: Jerry Chen studied at Stanford University (BS, Industrial Engineering); Harvard Business School (MBA).