Sequoia Capital

Venture capital firm
Menlo Park, CA

Strategy

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

Funds

1
FundVintageSizeStrategyStageStatus
AI Expansion Fund2026$7BExpansion-stage ventureExpansion / growth
closed
As of Apr 16, 2026TechCrunch

Portfolio

18 total

Recent Investment Activity

2
DateCompanyEventAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Sep 1, 2026AIRSeed$50M
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Pulse story
Oct 20, 2025OpenEvidenceSeries C$200M
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TechCrunch

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
5 · 28%
Fintech
2 · 11%
Cybersecurity
2 · 11%
Defense
1 · 6%
Biotech
1 · 6%
Developer tools
1 · 6%
AI / clinical search for physicians
1 · 6%
Enterprise SaaS
1 · 6%
Space
1 · 6%
Infrastructure
1 · 6%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Seed
1 · 50%
Series C
1 · 50%

Co-Investors

12

Latest Pulse

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  1. AIR Raises $50M to Vet What AI Agents UseAIR, founded by two Israeli Unit 8200 veterans, raised $50 million across two seed rounds led by Sequoia and Greenoaks to build a platform that discovers and vets the skills and add-ons AI agents pull into enterprise environments.
  2. Sequoia-Incubated Empirik Launches With $21MEmpirik, spun out of a 2023 Sequoia incubation, raised $21 million to sell AI-driven infrastructure observability that predicts and prevents outages before they happen, already serving S&P Global and Guardant Health.
  3. Sequoia, Khosla, Y Combinator Lead 2026's Unicorn ClassSequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures and Y Combinator top the list of investors backing 2026's new unicorns, with 250 companies reaching billion-dollar valuations through August 15 -- up from 193 in all of 2025, per Crunchbase data.
  4. Neros Raises $250M Series C at $2.5B for Defense DronesNeros Technologies raised a $250 million Series C co-led by Sequoia Capital and the American Strategic Technology Fund at a $2.5 billion valuation, funding a push to build 1 million US-made drones a year by 2028.
  5. Corma Raises $60M Seed to Build Defensive Cyber AICorma, a Tel Aviv and San Francisco startup, emerged from stealth with a $60 million seed round led by Sequoia Capital to build what it calls the first foundation model purpose-built for defensive cybersecurity.
  6. Sequoia Goes All-In on AI Under New LeadersSequoia Capital closed a roughly $7B expansion fund and has directed about 70% of recent investments into AI, doubling down on the sector under new co-stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady after Roelof Botha's exit.
  7. Parallel Raises $100M to Build Search for AI AgentsParallel raised a $100M Series B led by Sequoia, with Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins participating, to build a search engine designed specifically for AI agents rather than human browsers.
  8. Valar Atomics Triples to $6B for Factory NuclearValar Atomics raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B valuation, tripling its mark since April, months after using a fission reaction to power an Nvidia chip for the first time.
  9. Valar Atomics Raises $1B at $6B for Factory NuclearSequoia led a $1B Series B for Valar Atomics at a $6B post-money valuation, tripling the mark it carried in April, weeks after the startup used a fission reaction to power an Nvidia AI chip.
  10. Sequoia Leads $1B Round for Nuclear Startup ValarValar Atomics closed a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B valuation, tripling its April mark, weeks after its microreactor became the first in US history to power an Nvidia AI chip.
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