# John Lilly

> John Lilly is a seed investor at Greylock backing Software. See 58 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Greylock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greylock)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 58
- Last investment: Aug 2025
- Lead investor: 16%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/johnlilly
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/johnolilly
- Website: http://john.jubjubs.net
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/john.lilly

John Lilly is a seed investor at Greylock in San Francisco focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. John Lilly is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Venture Partner of Greylock. John previously worked at Mozilla as a CEO. John Lilly attended the Stanford University.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$14M |
| Series A | $10M–$17M |
| Series B | $15M–$250M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 17 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 17% |
| Information Technology | 8 | 14% |
| Mobile | 7 | 12% |
| Internet | 6 | 10% |

86 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 22 | 38% |
| Series A | 13 | 22% |
| Series B | 8 | 14% |
| Series C | 5 | 9% |
| Series E | 3 | 5% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 32 | 55% |
| Canada | 3 | 5% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Terraton | Terraton is a biochar platform that provides equipment, design, and financing to agribusiness operators. | $11.5M | Seed | Aug 27, 2025 | https://terraton.ai/ |
| PlayerZero | PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data. | $5M | Seed | Jul 30, 2025 | https://www.playerzero.ai |
| Unblocked | Unblocked is a continuous integration platform for mobile apps hosted in the cloud. Unblocked was developed as a result of difficult collective experiences spending long periods of time in meetings, putting up with interruptions, and sifting through dated documentation while developing software at businesses like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Apple. | $20M | Series A | May 06, 2025 | https://www.getunblocked.com |
| Nuro | Nuro is a technology company that develops a self-driving vehicle for local goods transportation. Nuro transforms local commerce through autonomous delivery. Its service helps merchants deliver goods to customers quickly, affordably, and safely. Nuro's mission is to accelerate the benefits of robotics for everyday life. | $106M | Series E | Apr 09, 2025 | https://nuro.ai |
| Momento | Momento was founded with the vision to enable developers to write reliable and powerful apps faster than ever thought possible. Momento removes the need to manage caches by providing a serverless caching solution that works at any scale, so developers can concentrate on doing what they love: developing better products and services, faster. Momentois a team of distributed systems and database experts. The company is headquartered out of Seattle, Washington with a team that is distributed worldwide.Visit gomomento.com for more information—or see just how fast and simple it is to get going with Momento by starting for free at start.gomomento.com. | $15M | Series A | Jul 18, 2024 | https://www.gomomento.com |
| Unblocked | Unblocked is a continuous integration platform for mobile apps hosted in the cloud. Unblocked was developed as a result of difficult collective experiences spending long periods of time in meetings, putting up with interruptions, and sifting through dated documentation while developing software at businesses like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Apple. | $8.3M | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 | https://www.getunblocked.com |
| Unblocked | Unblocked is a context engine that gives AI coding agents the organizational knowledge behind your codebase: the decisions, discussions, and history scattered across GitHub, Slack, Jira, and Confluence. Agents with this context produce mergeable code on the first pass, burning fewer tokens on exploration and less developer time on review cycles andrework. | $8.2M | Seed | Oct 03, 2023 | https://x.com/get_unblocked |
| Moonsense | Moonsense is a cross-platform toolset used by developers, data scientists, and product managers. Its application take advantage of the physical world by functioning as an intelligent conduit for sensor data. | $4.2M | Seed | May 03, 2023 | https://www.moonsense.io/ |
| Momento | Momento was founded with the vision to enable developers to write reliable and powerful apps faster than ever thought possible. Momento removes the need to manage caches by providing a serverless caching solution that works at any scale, so developers can concentrate on doing what they love: developing better products and services, faster. Momentois a team of distributed systems and database experts. The company is headquartered out of Seattle, Washington with a team that is distributed worldwide.Visit gomomento.com for more information—or see just how fast and simple it is to get going with Momento by starting for free at start.gomomento.com. | $15M | Seed | Nov 02, 2022 | https://www.gomomento.com |
| Socket | Socket is a new security company that can protect your most critical apps from supply chain attacks. We are taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities.Socket is built by a team of open sourcemaintainers with over 1 billion monthly downloads. Everyone on the Socket team is an open source maintainer. We are all driven to defend the open source ecosystem from supply chain attacks and make it safe for everyone.Socket is unique because, unlike other tools, it detects and blocks supply chain attacks before they strike, mitigating the worst consequences. | $4.6M | Seed | May 11, 2022 | https://socket.dev |

10 of 58 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital) — VC Fund, 12 deals together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [XYZ Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/xyz-ventures-33d5) — VC Fund, 7 deals together
- [Bain Capital Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bain-capital-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [First Round Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/first-round-capital) — VC Fund, 5 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 John Lilly invest in?

John Lilly invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 58 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is John Lilly's check size?

John Lilly typically joins rounds of $2M–$14M at Seed, $10M–$17M at Series A and $15M–$250M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds John Lilly participates in.

### How do I contact John Lilly?

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### When did John Lilly last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for John Lilly closed in Aug 2025. Shizune tracks 58 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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