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Venture capital may have slowed, but that doesn鈥檛 mean some VC firms aren鈥檛 still raising big.

鈥� famous for bets on companies such as , and then-Facebook, now 鈥� announced its 17th fund, a $1 billion vehicle focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A founders.听

The firm will look to fund AI-first companies across a variety of areas, including cybersecurity, fintech, consumer and more. In a , the firm said more than 80% of the investments made in its previous fund were pre-seed, seed or Series A.

鈥淲e expect that every company will become an AI company,鈥� the blog reads. 鈥淲hile it鈥檚 been exciting to watch as the venture community has embraced AI as a thesis area over the last year, Greylock has been committed to AI investing for a decade and this commitment continues into Fund 17.鈥�

Simultaneously, Greylock also announced a new program called Greylock Edge, a three-month company-building program for pre-idea, pre-seed and seed founders that also will include some type of 鈥渇lexible鈥� funding.

Greylock announced its 16th fund in September 2020, which also totaled $1 billion. Some of its recently announced investments include , and .

Big money across the pond

That wasn鈥檛 the only news of a large new fund on Tuesday. London-based has raised $1.1 billion of new funding to invest in startups even as Europe also has seen a decline in venture capital funding, the . The firm is raising the cash for its new venture and growth funds, with a goal of $1.35 billion for both funds, per the report.

The investor鈥檚 noteworthy investments include buy-now-pay-later and electric flying car startup .听

Atomico last announced a fund in February 2020 鈥� an $820 million vehicle 鈥� per 附近上门 data.

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