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When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock tolaunch her ownAI - focussed stock , Conviction Partners , she indicated that she was tagging the word of honor “ cooperator ” to the firm ’s name because she would finally bring on other GPs .
Now , more than two old age later , Guo is being joined by Mike Vernal , who was a partner at Sequoia before bequeath the storied firm in 2023 . Vernal joins as Conviction reveal it just closed a 2d investment trust with $ 230 million in uppercase committal — more than double the catch of its $ 101 million debut investment company .
It is n’t a surprise that Conviction has pull in a heavyweight investor . Over the last two age , Guo has built up Conviction ’s stain , becoming among the well - have intercourse AI investors in Silicon Valley with stake in companies like Mistral , Harvey , and Sierra . Guo also co - hosts a pop AI podcast , “ No Priors , ” with star investor Elad Gil .
Meanwhile , Vernal , who spent nearly seven age at Sequoia — and the previous eight days at Facebook as a VP of product and engineering — has himself direct hatful in numerous high-pitched - airman , include Notion , Rippling , and Verkada , a surety tv camera startup that’sreportedlyraising funding at a $ 4.5 billion valuation .
