Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Greylock Adds Data Domain's Slootman As Partner

Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Greylock Partners said Wednesday that it has added former Data Domain CEO Frank Slootman as a Partner at the firm. According to Greylock, Slootman will focus on data center infrastructure start-ups, particularly in the virtualization, networking, storage, cloud and enterprise application sectors. Greylock was an early investor in Data Domain, which had an IPO in 2007 and was acquired by EMC in 2009 for $2.4 billion.