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Dave Strohm joined Greylock in Boston in 1980; at the time Greylock was one of the longest-established American venture firms, founded in 1965. In 1983, Strohm moved to California and opened the Greylock office in Silicon Valley, which has since become the firm’s largest operating unit.Over 25 years of venture investing, Dave’s primary areas of focus have been on enterprise technology (especially enterprise software), and electronic design. He has been an early/ founding investor in more than 30 companies. Among these, 10 have become publicly-traded, including Mentor Graphics, Ascend Communications, Legato, Forte Software, Doubleclick, and Internet Security Systems. He has also been an early/founding investor in more than 20 companies which have resulted in successful mergers, including ccMail (Lotus/IBM); Kiva (Netscape/Sun); Octane Software (ePiphany); Net Effect (AskJeeves); Decru (Network Appliance); and Wily (Computer Associates).Dave also serves on the board of AtHoc, CoWare, Edge Dynamics, EMC Corporation, SuccessFactors, and Tabula. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Business School. | 