Sequoia Capital

Venture Capital

Profile

Founded
1972
Headquarters
Menlo Park, US
Investments
174
Companies
58

Capital

Total Deployed
$106.8B
Lead Rounds
79

Portfolio

58 companies
OpenAI $167.9B
Private San Francisco, US

AI research company building artificial general intelligence, creator of ChatGPT, GPT-4, DALL-E, and the OpenAI API platform.

Anthropic $48.4B
Private San Francisco, US

AI safety company and maker of Claude AI models

xAI $42.1B
Acquired San Francisco, US

Artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk that builds large language models and the Grok chatbot, with the mission to understand the true nature of the universe.

Waymo $27.1B
Private Mountain View, US

Autonomous driving technology company, formerly the Google self-driving car project.

Uber $13.2B
Public San Francisco, US

Global ride-hailing, food delivery, and freight technology platform operating in over 70 countries, connecting riders with drivers and eaters with restaurants through its app.

SpaceX $11.9B
Private Starbase, US

Aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company designing, manufacturing, and launching advanced rockets and spacecraft with the goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Stripe $7.9B
Private San Francisco, US

Online payment processing and financial infrastructure platform

Robinhood $4.7B
Public Menlo Park, US

Financial services platform offering commission-free stock, ETF, options, and cryptocurrency trading through its mobile app, pioneering zero-commission retail investing.

Klarna $4.2B
Public Stockholm, SE

Swedish fintech company and global leader in buy now, pay later (BNPL) payments, offering flexible payment solutions for online and in-store shopping across 150 million consumers and 500,000 merchants.

Airbnb $3.3B
Public San Francisco, US

Online marketplace for short-term lodging and experiences

Instacart $2.9B
Public San Francisco, US

Online grocery delivery and pick-up platform connecting customers with personal shoppers. One of the largest grocery technology companies in the US.

Cerebras Systems $2.8B
Private Sunnyvale, US

AI hardware company that builds the world's largest chip (WSE) for training and inference of large AI models.

Snap $2.6B
Public Santa Monica, US

Camera and social media company behind Snapchat, the visual messaging app with disappearing messages, Stories, augmented reality Lenses, and Snap Map, reaching over 800 million monthly active users.

DoorDash $2.5B
Public San Francisco, US

On-demand food delivery platform connecting consumers with local restaurants and stores, operating as the largest food delivery service in the United States with over 56% market share.

Ramp $2.3B
Private New York, US

Corporate card and spend management platform that helps businesses save money on expenses. Combines corporate cards with software for expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, and procurement. Known for its rapid growth, reaching $100M ARR in under 3 years.

Rappi $2.3B
Private Bogota, CO

Latin American super-app providing on-demand delivery of food, groceries, and goods, along with digital financial services including payments, credit cards, and banking across nine countries in the region.

Wiz $1.9B
Acquired New York, US

Cloud security company that provides a unified platform for cloud-native application protection, enabling organizations to rapidly identify and remediate critical risks across their cloud environments.

Rippling $1.8B
Private San Francisco, US

Workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance into a single system built on a unified employee graph.

Skild AI $1.8B
Private Pittsburgh, US

Skild AI develops generalist foundation models for robotics and physical-world AI intelligence, enabling robots to perform a wide range of tasks through embodied AI.

Zipline $1.8B
Private San Francisco, United States

Zipline designs, manufactures, and operates autonomous delivery drones, running the world's largest commercial autonomous logistics network. The company began delivering blood and medical supplies to remote clinics in Rwanda in 2016 and has expanded to seven countries and consumer deliveries with partners like Walmart. Zipline has completed over 2 million commercial drone deliveries.

Faire $1.6B
Private San Francisco, US

Online wholesale marketplace connecting independent brands with independent retailers. Retailers discover and buy from over 100,000 brands with free returns, net-60 payment terms, and data-driven recommendations.

Snowflake $1.6B
Public Bozeman, US

Cloud-based data warehousing company providing a platform for data storage, processing, and analytics that runs on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling organizations to consolidate data into a single source of truth.

Kalshi $1.5B
Private New York, New York, United States

The first federally regulated prediction market exchange in the United States, approved by the CFTC as a Designated Contract Market in 2020. Enables users to trade event contracts on real-world outcomes spanning economics, politics, weather, sports, and culture. Emerged from Y Combinator's W19 batch.

Bird Rides $1.4B
Closed Santa Monica, US

Electric scooter and micromobility company that pioneered shared dockless electric scooters in cities. Bird deployed fleets of app-unlocked e-scooters and e-bikes across hundreds of cities globally. Became the fastest company in history to reach a $1B valuation. After going public via SPAC in 2021, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2023. Assets sold to Third Lane Mobility in April 2024.

Reddit $1.3B
Public San Francisco, US

Social news aggregation and discussion platform where users submit, vote on, and discuss content across millions of community-driven forums called subreddits.

Harvey $1.0B
Private San Francisco, United States

Harvey builds domain-specific AI for legal and professional services. The platform streamlines workflows in contract analysis, due diligence, compliance, and litigation, serving over 1,000 customers in 60+ countries including global law firms and Fortune 500 enterprises.

Whatnot $974M
Private Los Angeles, US

Live-stream shopping marketplace where buyers and sellers connect in real-time video auctions. Originally focused on collectibles like Funko Pops and Pokemon cards, now expanded to dozens of categories including sports cards, sneakers, fashion, electronics, and art.

ElevenLabs $781M
Private New York, US

AI voice technology company specializing in realistic speech synthesis, voice cloning, and multilingual text-to-speech.

Figma $749M
Public San Francisco, US

Collaborative interface design tool that runs in the browser, enabling real-time multiplayer editing for design teams.

Temporal Technologies $650M
Private Bellevue, US

Open-source durable execution platform for building reliable distributed applications. Provides "virtual durable memory" that maintains application state across failures. Critical execution layer for AI agents in production, used by OpenAI, Anthropic, Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, Snap, Airbnb, and Stripe.

Dropbox $607M
Public San Francisco, US

Cloud storage and file synchronization platform that lets users store, share, and collaborate on files across devices.

Groww $593M
Public Bengaluru, IN

Groww is India's largest direct-to-consumer digital investment platform, offering mutual funds, stocks, IPOs, ETFs, digital gold, and derivatives trading. Founded by four former Flipkart employees, the company grew from a mutual fund distribution platform to a full-service brokerage serving millions of retail investors across India. A Y Combinator alumnus (W18 batch), Groww was YC's first company to list on an Indian stock exchange.

Block $590M
Public San Francisco, US

Financial technology company (formerly Square) building economic empowerment tools including the Square point-of-sale ecosystem, Cash App peer-to-peer payments, Afterpay buy-now-pay-later, and Bitcoin-focused initiatives.

dbt Labs $416M
Private Philadelphia, United States

dbt Labs is the company behind dbt (data build tool), an open-source analytics engineering framework that enables data teams to transform data in their warehouses using SQL. Originally founded as Fishtown Analytics, the company signed a definitive agreement to merge with Fivetran in October 2025 in an all-stock deal, creating a combined data infrastructure company approaching $600M in ARR.

GitHub $350M
Acquired San Francisco, US

The world's leading software development platform and code hosting service, built on Git. Home to over 100 million developers and the center of open-source collaboration.

Mercury $346M
Private San Francisco, United States

Mercury is a fintech company that provides business banking services built specifically for startups, small businesses, and scaling companies. The platform combines FDIC-insured checking and savings accounts with modern tools like cashflow analytics, intuitive dashboards, and efficient payments. Trusted by over 200,000 startups, Mercury reached $650 million in annualized revenue by Q3 2025.

Notion $337M
Private San Francisco, US

All-in-one workspace that combines notes, documents, wikis, project management, and AI-powered tools used by millions of individuals and teams worldwide.

Amplitude $336M
Public San Francisco, US

Amplitude is a product analytics platform that helps companies understand user behavior to build better digital products. Originally incubated at Y Combinator (W12) as a voice-to-text app called Sonalight, the founders pivoted to analytics after realizing the internal tools they built were more valuable than the app itself. The company pioneered the product intelligence category and went public via direct listing on NASDAQ in September 2021.

Ricursive Intelligence $335M
Private Palo Alto, US

Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building AI systems to transform semiconductor design, founded by the co-creators of Google's AlphaChip.

Mixpanel $277M
Private San Francisco, US

Product analytics platform that helps teams understand user behavior by tracking event-based interactions across web and mobile applications. Customers include OpenAI, Netflix, Uber, and Pinterest.

Okta $229M
Public San Francisco, United States

Okta is an identity and access management platform that provides cloud-based solutions for securely connecting people to technology. The company offers single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, and lifecycle management for enterprises and developers.

Sourcegraph $223M
Private San Francisco, US

Code intelligence platform that helps developers search, understand, and fix code across large, complex codebases. Provides universal code search, batch changes, and code insights for enterprise engineering teams.

Loom $204M
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Video messaging platform for workplace communication that lets users record their screen, camera, or both to create quick, shareable videos. Grew to 25 million users before being acquired by Atlassian in October 2023 for $975 million.

Nominal $183M
Private Los Angeles, US

Nominal builds the unified, real-time test stack for physical systems. The platform helps engineering teams developing complex hardware (aircraft, satellites, autonomous vehicles, fusion energy systems, weapons programs) to test, validate, and monitor their systems continuously.

Flapping Airplanes $180M
Private San Francisco, US

AI research lab focused on solving the data-efficiency problem in AI. Named after the metaphor that current AI scaling is like putting flapping wings on an airplane rather than discovering aerodynamic principles.

Zoom $157M
Public San Jose, US

Video communications platform providing cloud-native video meetings, team chat, VoIP phone, webinars, and virtual events, becoming a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic with hundreds of millions of daily meeting participants.

Profound $155M
Private New York, US

AI search visibility platform helping businesses understand and optimize how they appear in AI-powered search results. Provides analytics and tools for brands to track their presence across AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

LinkedIn $103M
Acquired Sunnyvale, US

Professional networking platform connecting the world's professionals to make them more productive and successful. Offers tools for job searching, recruiting, content sharing, and business networking.

Clipboard Health $94M
Private San Francisco, US

Clipboard Health is a healthcare staffing marketplace that connects independent healthcare professionals, including nurses, CNAs, medical assistants, and other allied health workers, with open shifts at healthcare facilities. The platform enables healthcare workers to choose when and where they work, while helping facilities fill critical staffing gaps. Part of Y Combinator's W17 batch, the company has grown to serve thousands of facilities across 30+ U.S. cities, reached $100M in annual revenue within three years, and has been profitable since 2022.

PlanGrid $59M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Construction productivity software that digitized blueprints and project documents for mobile access on job sites, enabling real-time collaboration across construction teams. Acquired by Autodesk for $875 million in 2018.

Rowspace $50M
Private San Francisco, US

AI platform that accelerates financial services decision-making using proprietary data. Connects structured and unstructured firm data across legacy systems (memos, models, accounting systems) and applies finance-specific intelligence to automate high-stakes decisions. Deploys directly into customer environments for data control. Institutions managing hundreds of billions in assets use it for portfolio monitoring, cross-cycle analysis, and credit optimization.

CoreOS $48M
Acquired San Francisco, US

CoreOS developed Container Linux, a lightweight Linux-based operating system designed for massive server deployments, along with key container infrastructure tools including etcd, rkt, and the Tectonic Kubernetes platform. Founded through Y Combinator (S13), the company built open source infrastructure to enable Google-scale operations for any organization. CoreOS was a founding member of both the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Container Initiative (OCI). Acquired by Red Hat in January 2018 for $250 million.

Evervault $46M
Private Dublin, Ireland

Secure data infrastructure company providing encryption-as-a-service and payment security solutions. Offers tools for encrypting, processing, and sharing sensitive data without exposing it, with a focus on PCI compliance and payment card data protection.

Clever $43M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Single sign-on platform for K-12 education giving students, teachers, and staff secure access to digital learning applications through one personalized portal. Built a standardized API enabling school data systems to sync with edtech applications automatically. Used by 89,000 schools and 65% of U.S. K-12 districts.

Weebly $40M
Acquired San Francisco, US

Weebly is a website creation platform that provides drag-and-drop tools, customizable templates, e-commerce features, and hosting, enabling anyone to build a professional website, online store, or blog without coding knowledge. Founded in 2006 by three Penn State University students, Weebly pioneered the drag-and-drop website builder space during Y Combinator's W07 batch. The platform grew to power over 50 million websites globally with more than 625,000 paid subscribers across 175+ countries. Acquired by Square (now Block, Inc.) in 2018 for $365 million.

FutureAdvisor $22M
Acquired San Francisco, United States

Digital wealth management platform that provided automated, algorithm-driven investment advisory services to everyday investors. The platform analyzed retirement and brokerage accounts, recommended ways to reduce fees, maximize tax efficiency, and select the right investments. One of the early robo-advisors.

YouTube $12M
Acquired San Bruno, US

Online video-sharing platform that enables users to upload, share, and discover video content. Founded by three former PayPal employees, it became the internet's premier destination for user-generated video before being acquired by Google in 2006.

Zapier $3M
Private San Francisco, US

Workflow automation platform that connects over 7,000 apps, enabling users and businesses to automate repetitive tasks without code. One of the most capital-efficient companies in tech history, reaching a $5B valuation on just $2.7M in primary funding.

Investment data is compiled from multiple independent sources including company announcements, press coverage, and regulatory filings. While we strive for accuracy, amounts and dates may reflect reported figures at time of announcement.