US venture capital firm Greylock Partners promotes cleantech specialist Isaac Fehrenbach

13 January 2010

Greylock Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, has promoted Isaac Fehrenbach and David Thacker to the position of associate partner.

‘David and Isaac have become trusted advisors to a number of Greylock-supported companies. They have shown tremendous potential and I am enthusiastic about what they can achieve in the future,’ said Greylock partner David Sze. ‘In their new roles David and Isaac will invest in promising startups and growth stage tech ventures and draw from their operating experience to help entrepreneurs build great companies.’

Fehrenbach leads Greylock’s cleantech efforts, targeting early stage companies that operate at the intersection of cleantech and IT. The firm also invests in growth stage cleantech businesses. He represented Greylock on the board of SunEdison, North America’s largest solar services company, purchased by MEMC in 2009 for $340m.

Thacker invests in consumer and enterprise technology ventures, including sectors such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), mobile, e-commerce and online advertising.
Current Greylock portfolio companies include Data Robotics, Digg, Facebook, Imperva, LinkedIn, Redfin and ZipCar.

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