Sarah Guo
Founder of Conviction
The founder of Conviction, an early-stage venture firm focused on AI, and a former Greylock general partner.
Biography
Sarah Guo is an American venture capitalist, founder of the venture capital firm Conviction and formerly a general partner at Greylock Partners. She grew up in Wisconsin and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, earning a BA, BS, MBA and MA in five years. She moved to San Francisco in 2012 to work at Goldman Sachs and was recruited to Greylock in 2013.
At Greylock she invested in the Series A of Figma and sat on the boards of companies including Multi, later acquired by OpenAI, and Voyage AI, later acquired by MongoDB. She left Greylock in July 2022 and in October of that year launched Conviction, an early-stage firm focused on AI, with $101 million. Conviction's investments include Baseten, Cognition AI, Harvey, Mistral AI, Reflection AI, Sierra and Thinking Machines Lab. She appears on the Midas List and in TIME's list of the most influential people in AI.
Notable contributions
Founded Conviction
Launched Conviction in October 2022 as an early-stage venture firm focused on AI, with $101 million.
Backed leading AI companies
Conviction's investments include Mistral AI, Cognition AI, Harvey, Sierra, Reflection AI and Thinking Machines Lab.
Named to the TIME100 AI list
Appears in TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in AI and on the Midas List of top investors.