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Shreya Shekhar, BS 23, a graduate of UC Berkeley Haas’ M.E.T. dual-degree program, is now a partner at the venture firm Greylock—a decision-making role few women in Silicon Valley hold—investing in early-stage AI infrastructure startups.
Until she joined Greylock Partners—one of the oldest venture capital firms with a portfolio that includes Facebook, LinkedIn, and Airbnb—Shreya Shekhar never saw herself as a venture capitalist.
Initially, the 20-something Shekhar wanted to be an entrepreneur. But after working at the startup Bedrock Data for several years, she found herself heavily involved in the investment world. “I was either going to some tech event to meet cool people, learning from founders, or writing about the spaces I was interested in,” she says. “This was my extracurricular, but I was looking forward to it every day.”
In many ways, Shekhar has been moving in that direction since high school, where she became fascinated with coding, tech, AI, and startups. She won acceptance to the highly competitive Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program, an undergraduate dual-degree in engineering and business.
While there, Shekhar did five internships—even as she co-founded a food-delivery startup amid the pandemic and won startup competitions. She also earned slots in two prestigious VC-backed programs: Accel Scholars, which provides Silicon Valley access, mentorship, and an industry-relevant curriculum, and Kleiner Perkins Fellows, which lets top students work inside innovative startups. Now a partner at Greylock—a decision-making role that few women in Silicon Valley hold—she’s investing in early-stage startups in AI infrastructure, including databases, development tools, and cybersecurity.
“People say to me, ‘Oh, you’ve accomplished so much already. What do you have left to do?’” she says. “But to me, it’s the complete opposite—now I have to prove myself.”
Shreya Shekhar, BS 23, is a partner at Greylock Partners, one of the oldest venture capital firms (with past investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, and Airbnb). A graduate of UC Berkeley Haas’ Management, Entrepreneurship & Technology (M.E.T.) dual-degree program, she invests in early-stage startups in AI infrastructure, including databases, developer tools, and cybersecurity—a decision-making role few women in Silicon Valley hold.
The Management, Entrepreneurship, & Technology (M.E.T.) program is a competitive undergraduate dual-degree in engineering and business at UC Berkeley. While in the program, Shekhar completed five internships, co-founded a food-delivery startup during the pandemic, and earned spots in the Accel Scholars and Kleiner Perkins Fellows programs.
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