Sarah Guo
Also known as saranormous
Founder of the AI venture firm Conviction and co-host of the No Priors podcast.
- Sarah Guo is a venture investor and the founder of Conviction, an early-stage firm that invests in AI-native software companies.
- She invested in enterprise software, infrastructure, security and machine learning as a Greylock general partner.
- She has co-hosted the No Priors podcast with Elad Gil since 2023.
Why it matters. For people following AI startups and venture funding; her firm backs companies such as Cognition, Harvey, Mistral and Sierra, and her podcast interviews their founders.
- Current roles
- Founder of Conviction; co-host of No Priors1
- Education
- University of Pennsylvania (economics, literature and statistics)1
- Earlier work
- Goldman Sachs; Greylock from 2013, general partner from 20181
- Left Greylock
- 2022-072
- Conviction launched
- 2022-10, with a $101 million first fund2
- Conviction backs
- Baseten, Harvey, Mistral, Cognition, OpenEvidence, Sierra and others1
- Recognition
- Forbes Midas List and Midas Seed List; TIME100 AI2
Links
Sources
- Sarah Guo - AI Engineer speaker page (opens ai.engineer) read 30 Sep 2026
- Sarah Guo - Wikipedia (opens en.wikipedia.org) read 30 Sep 2026
- No Priors (RSS feed) (opens feeds.megaphone.fm) read 30 Sep 2026
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