Sequoia Capital
Helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. Multi-decade firm backing category-defining companies including Apple, Google, Stripe, and Airbnb.
Typical check size
$1M-$10M (stage-based estimate)
Founded
1972
Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
AUM
N/A
Rounds they lead
Rounds they invest
Portfolio companies we track
Startups in our directory that list Sequoia Capital as an investor (80 total).
- ActionIQ Composable customer data platform — acquired by Uniphore in December 2024.
- Airbnb Global marketplace connecting guests with short-term stays and experiences.
- Akita Software API observability — auto-discovers and monitors APIs from traffic without SDKs.
- Amplitude Product analytics and behavioral data platform for digital teams.
- Anthropic AI safety company building Claude frontier models, API, and enterprise agents for coding and knowledge work.
- Astrocade AI social gaming platform that turns text prompts into playable games — co-founded by Fei-Fei Li.
- Atlys Digital visa application platform for international travelers.
- Barefoot Networks Programmable Ethernet switch ASICs and P4 networking software for data centers.
- Benchling R&D cloud platform — the operating system for life science labs.
- Bump Technologies Mobile app for tap-to-share contacts, photos, and files between phones.
- Capitolis Capital markets SaaS optimizing bank balance sheets (novations, compressions, Ionic).
- Captions AI creative studio for scripting, recording, and editing short-form talking videos.
- Census Reverse ETL platform syncing warehouse-modeled data into CRMs, ad tools, and other business apps.
- CoinSwitch India's largest retail crypto app — CoinSwitch Kuber for rupee on/off-ramps and 100+ tokens.
- Corma Frontier AI lab building foundation models for defensive cybersecurity.
- Cresta Real-time AI coaching and automation for contact center agents.
- Cumulus Networks Linux-based open networking OS for data center switches (acquired by NVIDIA, 2020).
- Cyera Data-security trust layer for enterprise AI — DSPM, DLP, and agentic access control across cloud and SaaS.
- dbt Labs Analytics engineering platform — dbt transforms warehouse data into tested metrics layers.
- Decart Real-time generative world models for gaming, robotics simulation, and physical AI.
- DeSO Layer-1 blockchain for decentralized social apps (ex-BitClout).
- DoorDash U.S. delivery logistics platform — public on NYSE as DASH since December 2020.
- ElevenLabs AI audio company ElevenLabs announced a $180M Series C on Jan. 30, 2025, at a reported $3.3B post-money valuation.
- Espresso Shared sequencing marketplace for Ethereum rollups and L2 interoperability.
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