# David Wadhwani

> David Wadhwani is a Series B investor at Greylock backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 7 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 7
- Last investment: May 2022
- Lead investor: 29%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidwadhwani/

David Wadhwani is a Series B investor at Greylock in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. David Wadhwani is the Chief Business Officer of Digital Media at Adobe, a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners, and a CEO at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He was a President and CEO at AppDynamics and attended Brown University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 43% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 29% |
| Energy | 1 | 14% |
| Big Data | 1 | 14% |
| Internet | 1 | 14% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series B | 2 | 29% |
| Series C | 2 | 29% |
| Series A | 1 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 14% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 2 | 29% |
| Canada | 1 | 14% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cribl | Founded with a vision of simplifying big data and log analytics at scale, Cribl is innovating the real-time data pipeline. Led by a team of experts in IT Operations and Observability, Cribl provides users a new level of visibility, intelligence, and control over their data.​By providing administrators control over their data in motion, Cribl aimsto help customers reduce low-value data, enrich more data with context, improve data routing, and secure data based on compliance and privacy mandates. Whether you're just starting with big data and log analytics, or consider yourself an expert, Cribl can help extend the value of your deployment to deliver greater results.In 2017, Dritan and Ledion Bitincka and Clint Sharp formed Cribl in San Francisco, California. | $150M | Series D | May 24, 2022 |  |
| Validere | Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete emissions data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Modernize your carbon tracking and reporting with an emissions management platform built by industry experts. | $43.1M | Series B | Mar 15, 2022 |  |
| Gem | Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent.Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibilityinto what’s working.Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity. | $100M | Series C | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| Gem | Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent.Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibilityinto what’s working.Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity. | $100M | Series C | Sep 28, 2021 |  |
| Cribl | Founded with a vision of simplifying big data and log analytics at scale, Cribl is innovating the real-time data pipeline. Led by a team of experts in IT Operations and Observability, Cribl provides users a new level of visibility, intelligence, and control over their data.​By providing administrators control over their data in motion, Cribl aimsto help customers reduce low-value data, enrich more data with context, improve data routing, and secure data based on compliance and privacy mandates. Whether you're just starting with big data and log analytics, or consider yourself an expert, Cribl can help extend the value of your deployment to deliver greater results.In 2017, Dritan and Ledion Bitincka and Clint Sharp formed Cribl in San Francisco, California. | $209.8M | Series C | Aug 25, 2021 |  |
| Gem | Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that integrates with LinkedIn, Gmail & Outlook, and your ATS. It enables world-class recruiting teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent.Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find an email, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rate, and gives visibilityinto what’s working.Teams use Gem to collaborate on candidates, discover best practices, and never reach out to the same person twice. Managers unlock visibility into their team’s pipeline because every touchpoint is automatically tracked. And everything syncs to your applicant tracking system with best-in-class data integrity. | $37M | Series B | Jul 16, 2020 |  |
| Validere | Validere is a measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) SaaS company that helps energy organizations transform disconnected, incomplete emissions data into clear and immediately actionable pathways to financial and environmental value. Modernize your carbon tracking and reporting with an emissions management platform built by industry experts. | $15M | Series A | Mar 12, 2020 |  |

7 of 7 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [IVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/institutional-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [CRV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/crvvc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ICONIQ Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/iconiq-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Redpoint](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/redpoint-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Greylock

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies. The firm invests in companies that define new markets, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Apptio, Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), Cloudera, Docker, Dropbox, Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD), Medium, Nextdoor, Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW),Pandora (NYSE: P), Pure Storage, and Workday (NYSE: WDAY).It was founded in 1965 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

5 contacts available at Greylock.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bill Kaiser | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bill-kaiser |
| David Wadhwani | Venture Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-wadhwani |
| Howard Cox | Special Limited Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-cox |
| Jason Risch | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jason-risch |
| Mike Duboe | General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mike-duboe |

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## FAQ

### What does David Wadhwani invest in?

David Wadhwani invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Energy startups, most often at Series B and Series C stage. Most of the 7 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Wadhwani last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Wadhwani closed in May 2022. Shizune tracks 7 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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