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Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund
When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her own AI-focused fund, Conviction Partners, she indicated that she was tagging the word “Partners” to
Now, more than two years later, Guo is being joined by Mike Vernal, who was a partner at Sequoia before leaving the storied firm in 2023. Over the last two years, Guo has built up Conviction’s brand, becoming among the better-known AI investors in Silicon Valley with stakes in companies like Mistral, Harvey, and Sierra. Meanwhile, Vernal, who spent nearly seven years at Sequoia — and the previous eight years at Facebook as a VP of product and engineering — has himself led deals in numerous high-fliers, including Notion, Rippling, and Verkada, a security camera startup that’s reportedly raising funding at a $4.5 billion valuation.
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