Sequoia Capital

Venture capital firm
Menlo Park, California, USAFounded 1972sequoiacap.comSee connections →Compare with Andreessen Horowitz

Venture capital firm partnering with entrepreneurs across growth stages, focused on AI, infrastructure, and enterprise technology.

At a glance

Sequoia Capital appears in 48 funding rounds tracked by ValueAddVC since 2021, leading 25. Its most frequent sectors in these rounds are AI & Infrastructure and Enterprise Software, and its most recent tracked deal was TypeSafe AI's $870M Series A round (Oct 9, 2026). It co-invests most often with Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management and Lightspeed Venture Partners. ValueAddVC also tracks 12 funds managed by Sequoia Capital.

Strategy

Stages
SeedSeries ASeries BGrowth
Sectors
AIEnterpriseConsumerFintechHealthcareCryptoClimate
Geographies
USAMenlo Park, California, USA
Check size
$1M-$200M

Recent changes

  1. Oct 9, 2026Invested in TypeSafe AI (Series A, $870M) TypeSafe AI
  2. Oct 7, 2026Invested in Healthleap (Seed + Series A, $38M) TechCrunch
  3. Oct 7, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Mecka AI (Series B, $60M) TechCrunch
  4. Oct 5, 2026Invested in RobCo ($40M) SiliconANGLE
  5. Sep 30, 2026Invested in Flow Engineering (Series B, $50M) TechCrunch
Earlier changes (15)
  1. Sep 28, 2026Invested in Instinct (Series C, $1B) Instinct (Business Wire via FinancialContent)
  2. Sep 24, 2026Invested in Island (Series F, $400M) SiliconANGLE
  3. Sep 17, 2026Invested in Magentic (Series A, $18M) PR Newswire
  4. Sep 16, 2026Invested in Factory ($200M) TechFundingNews
  5. Sep 15, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Profound (Series D, $180M) TechCrunch
  6. Sep 14, 2026Invested in Temporal (Series E, $550M) Temporal
  7. Sep 11, 2026Invested in Mecka AIRumored TechCrunch
  8. Sep 10, 2026Invested in The Boring Company (Series D, $3B) TechCrunch
  9. Sep 10, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Mach Industries (Series C extension, $600M) TechCrunch
  10. Sep 9, 2026Invested in Clay (Series D, $115M) Business Wire
  11. Sep 9, 2026Invested in Cymphony (Series A, $30M) TechCrunch
  12. Sep 9, 2026Sequoia Backs Cymphony's $30M AI Agent Security Bet Pulse story
  13. Sep 1, 2026Sequoia-Incubated Empirik Launches With $21M Pulse story
  14. Aug 19, 2026Sequoia, Khosla, Y Combinator Lead 2026's Unicorn Class Pulse story
  15. Aug 18, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Rillet (Series C, $100M) TechCrunch

Funds

12
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Sequoia Capital expansion fund2026$7BOtherExpansion-stage venture · Expansion / growth
As of Apr 16, 2026TechCrunch
Sequoia Capital Seed Fund VI2026—Seed
As of Mar 13, 2026SEC EDGAR Form D
Sequoia Capital Venture Fund XIX2026—Venture
As of Mar 13, 2026SEC EDGAR Form D
Sequoia Capital Growth Fund XI2025—Growth
As of Oct 10, 2025SEC EDGAR Form D
Sequoia Capital Seed Fund VII2025$200MSeed
As of 2025Value Add VC funds tracker
Show 7 earlier funds
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Sequoia Capital Seed Fund V2023$195MSeed
As of 2023Value Add VC funds tracker
Sequoia India and Southeast Asia Funds2022$2.85BOther
As of Jun 2022Wikipedia
Sequoia Capital Fund2022—Flagship
As of Feb 5, 2026SEC EDGAR Form D
Sequoia Crypto Fund2022$600MCrypto
As of Feb 2022Wikipedia
Sequoia Capital Fund2021$13.6BFlagshipSingle unified growth-stage fund structure; grew to $13.6B by early 2023
As of Oct 2021Wikipedia
Sequoia Capital Seed Fund IV2021$195MSeed
As of 2021Value Add VC funds tracker
Sequoia Capital Fund III2018$180MFlagship
As of 2018Value Add VC funds tracker

Portfolio

47 total
DenoOpenAITypeSafe AIWaymoMecka AIHealthleapEtchedRobCoFlow EngineeringInstinctOpenEvidenceIslandMagenticFactoryProfoundTemporalAnthropicMach IndustriesThe Boring CompanyClayCymphonyHugging FaceAIRKalshiRilletSpaceXForm EnergyNeros TechnologiesCormaWhatnotValar AtomicsSafe SuperintelligenceGlowCathedralChai DiscoveryProbookStarkPeregrine TechnologiesEnt.AICommureDecartReflection AIStripeSkild AIPhysical IntelligenceLangChainNotion

Recent Investment Activity

20

Track record: led 25 and participated in 23 of 48 tracked venture rounds · 39 in the last 12 months · led 6 Series C, 4 Seed, 3 Series A, 2 Series B

DateCompanyEventRoleAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Oct 10, 2026DenoacquisitionParticipated——
Sequoia Capitalunverified
TechCrunch
Oct 9, 2026TypeSafe AISeries AParticipated$870M$7.5B
Andreessen HorowitzLeadTechCrunch · unverifiedSequoia CapitalTechCrunch · unverifiedDCVCTechCrunch · unverified
Pulse story
Oct 7, 2026HealthleapSeed + Series ALed$38M—
Sequoia CapitalLeadunverifiedFirst Round CapitalLeadunverifiedHummingbird Ventures
TechCrunch
Oct 7, 2026Mecka AISeries BLed$60M$500 million
Sequoia CapitalLeadunverifiedNvidiaunverifiedM12 (FKA Microsoft Ventures)unverified
TechCrunch
Oct 5, 2026RobCofunding roundLed$40M—
Sequoia CapitalLeadunverifiedLightspeed Venture PartnersLeadunverified
SiliconANGLE
Oct 5, 2026RobCosecondaryLed$40M$1B
Sequoia CapitalLeadunverifiedLightspeed Venture PartnersLeadunverifiedGreenfield PartnersunverifiedKindred VenturesunverifiedLingotto Investment ManagementunverifiedPromus VenturesunverifiedCherry VenturesEuropean Tech Collective
Tech Funding News
Sep 30, 2026Flow EngineeringSeries BParticipated$50M$750M
Valor Equity PartnersLeadunverifiedAtreides ManagementLeadunverifiedSequoia CapitalunverifiedHuman VenturesSiliconANGLE · unverifiedEvantic CapitalSiliconANGLE · unverifiedSV AngelSiliconANGLE · unverifiedEQT VenturesSiliconANGLE · unverifiedOdyssey
Pulse story
Sep 28, 2026InstinctSeries CLed$1B$10B
Sequoia CapitalLeadBenchmarkLeadCoatue ManagementLead
Instinct (Business Wire via FinancialContent)
Sep 24, 2026IslandSeries FParticipated$400M$6.4B
Evolution Equity PartnersLeadJPMorganSequoia CapitalGeorgian
SiliconANGLE
Sep 17, 2026MagenticSeries AParticipated$18M—
Felicis VenturesLeadSequoia CapitalThe Westly Group
PR Newswire
Sep 16, 2026Factoryfunding roundLed$200M$5B
Khosla VenturesLeadBlackstone (Tech Hub)LeadSequoia CapitalLeadNico RosbergMarc BenioffBrad Gerstner
TechFundingNews
Sep 15, 2026ProfoundSeries DLed$180M$1.8B
Sequoia CapitalLeadKleiner PerkinsLeadLightspeed Venture PartnersTech Funding NewsKhosla VenturesTech Funding NewsSaga VenturesTech Funding NewsEvantic CapitalTech Funding NewsSouth Park CommonsTech Funding News
TechCrunch
Sep 14, 2026TemporalSeries EParticipated$550M$12.55B
Lightspeed Venture PartnersLeadWellington ManagementGoldman Sachs AlternativesTiger Global ManagementT. Rowe PriceSV AngelAndreessen HorowitzSequoia CapitalIndex VenturesGICSapphire VenturesAmplify Partners
Temporal
Sep 11, 2026Mecka AIfunding roundRumoredLed—~$500M
Sequoia CapitalLead
TechCrunch
Sep 10, 2026Mach IndustriesSeries C extensionLed$600M$3.7B
Sequoia CapitalLeadRibbit CapitalLeadInfinite CapitalBedrock Capital
TechCrunch
Sep 10, 2026The Boring CompanySeries DParticipated$3B$23B
Sequoia CapitalAndreessen HorowitzValor Equity PartnersVy CapitalUAE
TechCrunch
Sep 9, 2026ClaySeries DParticipated$115M$7.1B
Wellington ManagementLeadSiliconANGLESequoia CapitalSiliconANGLEStepStone GroupThe AI Insider (syndicated Business Wire release)Andreessen HorowitzThe AI Insider (syndicated Business Wire release)Meritech CapitalSiliconANGLEDST GlobalThe AI Insider (syndicated Business Wire release)CapitalGSiliconANGLEBoxGroupThe AI Insider (syndicated Business Wire release)Boldstart VenturesThe AI Insider (syndicated Business Wire release)Bloomberg BetaThe AI Insider (syndicated Business Wire release)Evolution Equity PartnersThe AI Insider (syndicated Business Wire release)Perennial
Business Wire
Sep 9, 2026CymphonySeries ALed$30M—
Sequoia CapitalLeadSMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund
TechCrunch
Aug 18, 2026RilletSeries CLed$100M$1B
Iconiq CapitalLeadSequoia CapitalLeadAndreessen HorowitzFortune
TechCrunch
Aug 12, 2026Form EnergySeries GParticipated$750M—
T. Rowe PriceLeadSequoia CapitalTPG Rise ClimateBreakthrough Energy VenturesCoatue ManagementGE Vernova
TechCrunch

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
9 · 19%
Developer tools
5 · 11%
Robotics
5 · 11%
Defense
4 · 9%
Enterprise SaaS
4 · 9%
Cybersecurity
3 · 6%
Energy
2 · 4%
Healthcare
2 · 4%
Biotech
1 · 2%
Healthcare AI
1 · 2%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series C
11 · 55%
Series A
8 · 40%
Seed
6 · 30%
Series B
5 · 25%
Series D
4 · 20%
Series F
3 · 15%
Seed + Series A
1 · 5%
Series E
1 · 5%
Series C extension
1 · 5%
Series G
1 · 5%

Co-Investors

12
Andreessen Horowitz · 15 sharedSV Angel · 13 sharedCoatue Management · 11 sharedKhosla Ventures · 7 sharedKleiner Perkins · 7 sharedLightspeed Venture Partners · 7 sharedDST Global · 6 sharedNvidia · 6 sharedAmerican Strategic Technology Fund · 1 sharedGreenfield Partners · 1 sharedInfinite Capital · 1 sharedSaga Ventures · 1 shared

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Value Add Research

Latest Pulse

  1. Bumble Agrees To $1.3B Go-Private Deal With IthacaBumble has agreed to a $1.3 billion deal to go private with Ithaca Holdings, the venture founded by ex-Sequoia partner Ravi Gupta, five years after the dating app's 2021 IPO valued it near $14 billion.→
  2. Q3's $117B In VC Funding Dwarfs The IPO PipelineQ3's roughly $117 billion in combined North American and European venture funding dwarfs what the public IPO market priced in the same window, even as Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia all increased their deal pace.→
  3. Cloudflare Buys Deno, Pulling Node.js Creator Into Its OrbitCloudflare is acquiring Deno, the JavaScript runtime co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, folding its open-source Workers-compatible runtime directly into Cloudflare's platform.→
  4. Valar Atomics Sues Its Own Investor Over $1B RoundValar Atomics is suing early investor Day One Ventures in Delaware court over how its roughly $1 billion Series B was allocated and whether pro-rata rights were improperly stripped before closing.→
  5. TypeSafe AI's Jev Hits $7.5B, Weeks After $40M SeedTypeSafe AI raised $870 million led by Andreessen Horowitz at a reported $7.5 billion valuation for Jev, its non-text AI model that outputs probabilities instead of generating prose.→
  6. Crunchbase Data Shows Investors Didn't Slow Down In Q3Crunchbase's investor-level breakdown of Q3 2026 shows most active investors increased deal counts even as total venture dollars fell, with Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital all leading more rounds than the prior quarter.→
  7. Union Square Ventures Raises $900M, Cuts To Four PartnersUnion Square Ventures raised $900 million across a new early-stage fund and opportunity fund while reducing its active general partnership to four people.→
  8. Waymo Takes On $5B In Debt To Fuel Robotaxi ExpansionWaymo secured its first-ever debt financing -- a $5 billion loan led by Goldman Sachs with PIMCO, Blackstone and Sixth Street -- to fund robotaxi expansion beyond its 15 current markets without diluting equity holders.→
  9. Healthleap Raises $38M to Catch Hospital Patients Doctors MissHealthleap raised $38 million combined seed and Series A funding for AI that flags hospital patients doctors may be missing, now live in 50-plus hospitals.→
  10. Mecka AI Raises $60M Series B to Scale Robot Training DataMecka AI raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with Nvidia and Microsoft's M12 joining, to scale its human-motion data business for training humanoid and industrial robots.→
  11. Menlo Backs Factory Right After Its Khosla BlowupDays after a public dispute between Factory's CEO and Khosla Ventures, Menlo Ventures joined Factory's round at a $5 billion valuation -- a pointed show of confidence in a company whose own backer just called it second-tier.→
  12. Reflection AI Launches Beam, Its First Open ModelReflection AI unveiled Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model it says matches top Chinese open models on reasoning benchmarks using a fraction of the inference compute, intensifying the US-China race for open AI.→
  13. RobCo Hits $1B Valuation, Becomes UnicornMunich robotics startup RobCo doubled its valuation to $1 billion in nine months via new investment plus a $40 million employee secondary, backed by Sequoia and Lightspeed.→
  14. AI Megadeals Just Reset What 'Big' MeansFive AI deals from the past two weeks -- AMD's $8.2B buy, Supabase's $150M round plus a Turso buy, two $400M security rounds, and a $1B agent round -- show AI financing repricing from billions into the trillions, benchmarked against Anthropic's $2T IPO target.→
  15. Flow Engineering Raises $50M Series B At $750MFlow Engineering raised a $50 million Series B at a $750 million valuation to build agentic AI tools for hardware design, led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management.→
  16. Reco Raises $55M, Pushing Total Funding To $140MAgentic security startup Reco raised $55 million in additional funding, including a strategic investment from AT&T Ventures, bringing its total capital raised to $140 million.→
  17. Flow Engineering Hits $750M ValuationFlow Engineering raised a $50 million Series B at a $750 million valuation, co-led by Valor Equity Partners and Atreides Management, to speed up hardware design iteration with AI agents.→
  18. Peak XV Raises Surge Seed Check Size To $5MPeak XV Partners raised the maximum seed check in its Surge accelerator program to $5 million and unveiled an 18-startup cohort, raising the bar for what a competitive seed round now looks like.→
  19. Instinct Closes $1B Series C At $10B ValuationPersonal AI-agent startup Instinct has closed a $1 billion Series C at a $10 billion valuation, finalizing a round that had only been reported as a possibility at a similar size.→
  20. Bessemer Raises $5.75B Across Two New AI FundsBessemer Venture Partners closed $5.75 billion across two new funds -- $1.75 billion for seed and early stage, $4 billion for growth -- to back AI-native founders from first check through late-stage rounds.→
  21. Temporal Raises $550M As Agentic AI Needs Durable CodeTemporal Technologies raised a $550 million Series E (announced September 14) at a $12.55 billion valuation led by Lightspeed, as demand for durable execution infrastructure grows alongside longer-running agentic AI workloads.→
  22. Factory Triples To $5B Valuation In Five MonthsFactory raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation, tripling its price tag from April as the AI coding-agent company pitches full software-development automation rather than autocomplete.→
  23. AEO Startup Profound Hits $1.8B In Just 7 MonthsProfound, which helps brands track how they appear inside ChatGPT and Gemini answers, raised a $180 million Series D co-led by Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins at a $1.8 billion valuation, less than seven months after its last round.→
  24. Nine US Rounds, $8.7B, Ten Days: September's Real PaceValue Add Pulse totaled the nine largest US venture rounds of September 5-11 and found $8.7 billion committed, with three deals at $1 billion or more.→
  25. Nvidia May Put $10B Into Anthropic's IPONvidia is in talks to invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic's IPO, an offering bankers say could raise $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation and become the largest in history.→
  26. Mecka AI Nears $500M On Robot Data RushMecka AI, which pays crowdsourced workers to record everyday tasks for training humanoid robots, is nearing a Sequoia-led round at close to a $500 million valuation.→
  27. Khosla Ventures Leaves Sand Hill Road For NYCKhosla Ventures is opening its first office outside Sand Hill Road, a 14th Street outpost in New York set to open this fall as the city overtakes the Bay Area in tech headcount.→
  28. Boring Company Raises $3B At $23B, UAE LeadsElon Musk's tunneling venture The Boring Company raised $3 billion in a Series D led by the UAE, valuing the company at $23 billion -- a fourfold increase from 2022 -- to fund more than 150 kilometers of new tunnels across the Emirates.→
  29. Mach Industries Doubles Valuation To $3.7BDefense-tech drone maker Mach Industries raised an additional $600 million, doubling its valuation to $3.7 billion just three months after its original Series C, an eightfold jump in a little over a year.→
  30. Alibaba, Tencent Back UniPat AI At $2.5BAlibaba is leading a $300 million investment in UniPat AI, an AI model-testing and benchmarking startup founded by a former Alibaba intern, valuing the company at $2.5 billion with Tencent also participating.→
  31. Clay Closes $115M Series D At $7.1BClay's AI go-to-market platform closed a $115 million Series D at a $7.1 billion valuation led by Wellington, confirming the $7 billion pre-money mark reported as a rumor eleven days earlier.→
  32. Harvey Raises $550M At $15.5B ValuationLegal AI startup Harvey raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, nearly doubling in nine months across two rounds while building its own open-weight model instead of depending solely on OpenAI or Anthropic.→
  33. Sequoia Backs Cymphony's $30M AI Agent Security BetCymphony launched with $30 million in total funding, including a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia, to give enterprises a single view of what data and systems their AI agents can access.→
  34. Listen Labs Ditches Term Sheet For Salesforce DealListen Labs walked away from a signed $125 million Series C term sheet at a $1.5 billion valuation to pursue a sale to Salesforce reportedly worth around $2 billion; Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire the company on September 29 without disclosing the price.→
  35. Hardware Is Getting Software's Round Sizes NowStoke Space's $1 billion round joins Castelion's $1.05 billion and Atoms' $1.7 billion as capital-intensive physical-hardware startups now command the round sizes and speed that used to be reserved for software.→
  36. Anthropic Walks Away From Its Biggest Deal EverAnthropic terminated talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for roughly $6 billion after conducting due diligence, walking away from what would have been its largest acquisition to date.→
  37. Nvidia Now Sits on Every Side of the AI TradeNvidia is the chip vendor to Crusoe and Fluidstack, an equity investor in Ineffable and SB Energy, and as of this month the owner of Hugging Face -- the open-model registry the industry treats as neutral ground.→
  38. The Billion-Dollar Seed Round Is Now a CategoryThree AI labs have now raised a billion dollars or more in what their investors call a seed round, at valuations between $5 billion and $12 billion before shipping a product -- a pricing convention that did not exist two years ago.→
  39. David Silver's Ineffable Names Six CofoundersIneffable Intelligence, the reinforcement-learning lab valued at $5.1 billion on a $1.1 billion seed, has retroactively elevated six senior hires to cofounder -- four of them out of Google's AI organization.→
  40. Profound Raises $96M to Own AI Search AnswersProfound raised a $96 million Series C led by Lightspeed to help brands track and influence how they get cited inside AI chatbot answers, the generative engine optimization category forming as search shifts from links to answers.→

Sequoia Capital FAQ

What is Sequoia Capital's latest fund?

Sequoia Capital expansion fund, closed at $7B (As of Apr 16, 2026; TechCrunch).

How large are Sequoia Capital's funds?

Sequoia Capital funds Value Add tracks include Sequoia Capital expansion fund ($7B, 2026); Sequoia Capital Seed Fund VII ($200M, 2025); Sequoia Capital Seed Fund V ($195M, 2023); Sequoia India and Southeast Asia Funds ($2.85B, 2022), out of 12 Sequoia Capital funds tracked in total.

What companies has Sequoia Capital invested in?

Sequoia Capital's portfolio includes Deno, OpenAI, TypeSafe AI, Waymo, Mecka AI, Healthleap, and 41 more tracked companies.

Who does Sequoia Capital co-invest with most?

In the rounds Value Add tracks, Sequoia Capital most often invests alongside Andreessen Horowitz (15 shared deals), SV Angel (13 shared deals), Coatue Management (11 shared deals), Khosla Ventures (7 shared deals), Kleiner Perkins (7 shared deals).

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