Sequoia Capital

Venture capital firm
Menlo Park, California, USAFounded 1972sequoiacap.com

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

Strategy

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

Recent changes

  1. Sep 15, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Profound (Series D, $180M) Bloomberg
  2. Sep 11, 2026Invested in Mecka AIRumored TechCrunch
  3. Sep 10, 2026Invested in Mach Industries (Series C extension, $600M) TechCrunch
  4. Sep 10, 2026Invested in The Boring Company (Series D, $3B) TechCrunch
  5. Sep 9, 2026Invested in Clay (Series D, $115M) Business Wire
Earlier changes (15)
  1. Sep 9, 2026Sequoia Backs Cymphony's $30M AI Agent Security Bet Pulse story
  2. Sep 3, 2026Invested in Profound (Series C, $96M) Newcomer
  3. Sep 1, 2026Invested in AIR (Seed, $50M) TechCrunch
  4. Sep 1, 2026Sequoia-Incubated Empirik Launches With $21M Pulse story
  5. Aug 19, 2026Sequoia, Khosla, Y Combinator Lead 2026's Unicorn Class Pulse story
  6. Aug 19, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Rillet (Series C, $100M) TechCrunch
  7. Aug 12, 2026Invested in Form Energy (Series G, $750M) TechCrunch
  8. Aug 11, 2026Invested in Neros Technologies (Series C, $250M) Morningstar
  9. Aug 10, 2026Invested in Corma (Seed, $60M) Calcalistech
  10. Aug 5, 2026Sequoia Goes All-In on AI Under New Leaders Pulse story
  11. Aug 4, 2026Invested in Parallel (Series B, $100M) TechCrunch
  12. Aug 3, 2026Invested in Valar Atomics (Series B, $1B) TechCrunch
  13. Aug 3, 2026Sequoia Leads $1B Round for Nuclear Startup Valar Pulse story
  14. Aug 3, 2026Sequoia Leads $1B Bet on Mass-Produced Nuclear Reactors Pulse story
  15. Jul 28, 2026Follow-on: Invested in Cathedral ($160M) Crunchbase News

Funds

12
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
AI Expansion Fund2026$7BOtherExpansion-stage venture · Expansion / growth
As of Apr 16, 2026TechCrunch
Sequoia Capital Seed Fund VI2026Seed
As of Mar 13, 2026SEC EDGAR Form D
Sequoia Capital Venture Fund XIX2026Venture
As of Mar 13, 2026SEC EDGAR Form D
Sequoia Capital Fund2026Flagship
As of Feb 5, 2026SEC EDGAR Form D
Sequoia Capital Growth Fund XI2025Growth
As of Oct 10, 2025SEC EDGAR Form D
Show 7 earlier funds
FundVintageSizeStrategySource
Sequoia Capital Seed Fund VII2025$200MSeed
As of 2025Value Add VC funds tracker
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 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

37 total

Recent Investment Activity

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DateCompanyEventAmountValuationInvestorsSource
Sep 15, 2026ProfoundSeries D$180M$1.8B
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Bloomberg
Sep 11, 2026Mecka AIfunding roundRumored~$500M
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TechCrunch
Sep 10, 2026Mach IndustriesSeries C extension$600M$3.7B
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TechCrunch
Sep 10, 2026The Boring CompanySeries D$3B$23BTechCrunch
Sep 9, 2026ClaySeries D$115M$7.1B
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Business Wire
Sep 3, 2026ProfoundSeries C$96M
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Pulse story
Sep 1, 2026AIRSeed$50M
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Pulse story
Aug 19, 2026RilletSeries C$100M$1B
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TechCrunch
Aug 12, 2026Form EnergySeries G$750M
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TechCrunch
Aug 11, 2026Neros TechnologiesSeries C$250M$2.5 billion
Sequoia CapitalAmerican Strategic Technology Fund
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Pulse story
Aug 10, 2026CormaSeed$60M
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Pulse story
Aug 4, 2026ParallelSeries B$100M
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Pulse story
Aug 3, 2026Valar AtomicsSeries B$1B$6B
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Pulse story
Jul 28, 2026Cathedralfunding round$160M$1.4 billion
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Pulse story
Jul 23, 2026EtchedSeries C$300M$10.3B
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Pulse story
Jul 22, 2026CathedralSeed$160M$1.4B
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U.S. News (Reuters)
Jul 22, 2026Glowfunding round$180M$1.2 billion
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Pulse story
Jul 22, 2026GlowSeries A$180M$1.2B
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TechCrunch
Jul 17, 2026Chai DiscoverySeries C$400M$3.8 billion
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Pulse story
Jul 10, 2026ProbookSeries A$40M
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Pulse story

Sector / Stage Activity

By sector (portfolio)
AI infra
9 · 24%
Defense
4 · 11%
Enterprise SaaS
4 · 11%
Cybersecurity
3 · 8%
Robotics
3 · 8%
Fintech
2 · 5%
Energy
2 · 5%
Developer tools
2 · 5%
Consumer
2 · 5%
Biotech
1 · 3%
By stage (tracked rounds)
Series C
8 · 40%
Seed
6 · 30%
Series A
5 · 25%
Series D
4 · 20%
Series B
4 · 20%
Series F
2 · 10%
Series C extension
1 · 5%
Series G
1 · 5%
Series H
1 · 5%
Private equity round
1 · 5%

Co-Investors

12

Latest Pulse

Pulse coverage →
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
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