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Sequoia Capital

Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

Menlo Park, CA 745,169 followers

About us

Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQ's total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.

Industry
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Company size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Menlo Park, CA
Type
Privately Held
Specialties
Seed Stage, Early Stage, and Growth Stage

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    View profile for David Cahn

    Partner at Sequoia Capital

    Excited to share our launch of Kela Defense from stealth today, including a great profile in the The Wall Street Journal. As my first Sequoia investment, this company has been a huge focus for me over the last year. We’re excited to finally share what we’ve been working on. Kela is building a modern defense prime based in Israel, with a vision of defending not just Israel, but the entire Western Alliance. The thesis is simple: Israel is one of the only Western countries with a draft. Its cadre of “technowarriors” have built some of the most elite startups in the world. As conflict becomes ever-more tech native, could we redeploy these technowarriors back into the defense sector? We believe that Kela’s software platform and operational agility will enable Israel and its allies to better adapt in today’s fast-evolving defense landscape. It’s been an absolute pleasure to partner with Alon Dror, Hamutal Meridor, Jason Manne, and Omer Bar-Ilan. Alon is an elite Talpiot graduate, one of the top units in Israel. Hamutal previously ran Palantir’s Israel business. The Kela team that we’ve recruited over the last year is world class and growing. We're proud to announce $39m in funding from Sequoia and Lux. https://lnkd.in/gm-Stdtu

  • How is Harvey disrupting the $1T legal industry? Co-founder Winston Weinberg joined us on Training Data to reveal their approach to transforming legal workflows and business models. ⚙️ Build for complexity, not commodity: The most defensible AI systems tackle what next-gen models can’t. Success comes from deep domain expertise and specialized workflows that combine multiple AI capabilities. 🚀 Speed is the new competitive edge: Winston says we’re living through the most compressed period of change in history. Constant testing and rapid integration of new developments isn’t optional—the biggest risk is moving too slowly. 📋 Process expertise trumps data alone: You can’t just train models on public legal data. The secret sauce? Domain experts who can map complex workflows step-by-step, then train AI to execute with precision. 🔗 Start narrow, scale smart: Build high-accuracy vertical solutions for specific use cases first, then chain them together into unified workflows. This maintains quality while making powerful tools accessible to everyone. 🤝 Partner to transform, not disrupt: Harvey isn’t trying to replace law firms—they’re helping them evolve. By turning loss-leader services into profitable software offerings, firms can expand market share while maintaining quality standards. 🔊 Listen to the full episode: 👇 YouTube: https://seq.vc/rjw Apple: https://seq.vc/a34 Spotify: https://seq.vc/1dy

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  • Sequoia Capital reposted this

    Mirage is LIVE Generate energetic, high-converting ads with people that don’t exist — complete with animated body language and micro-expressions — using Mirage, the first foundation model built to generate UGC-style content. Get started with a script or an audio file, then specify the look of your spokesperson, their background, outfit, objects, and even emotion. It’s never been easier to iterate and scale ad production with Mirage, now available in Captions Ad Studio.

  • When Winston Weinberg started Harvey in 2022, many were dismissing AI application companies as "GPT wrappers." But he saw what others missed: legal expertise can't simply be scraped from the internet. This insight led to Harvey's unique approach: combining experienced lawyers' domain knowledge with AI innovation. Rather than just applying models to legal text, they broke down intricate processes into steps, building specialized workflows that augment rather than replace human expertise. Harvey's success proves that the real opportunity in AI isn't just better models—it's understanding the industry expertise that can't be learned from a dataset.

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    View profile for Konstantine Buhler

    Partner at Sequoia. AI Engineer & Investor.

    I met Mateus at a Stanford University Graduate School of Business dinner almost two years ago. I could tell immediately that he was special. Mateus was the youngest person to ever attend law school in Brazil, at age 14. He argued and won a case before Brazil's Supreme Court, earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard Law School and passed the New York bar exam – all while still under the legal drinking age of 21. So when Mateus dropped out of business school to pursue a company idea, I listened. Mateus identified a big drain on the Brazilian economy: a legal structure that incentivizes consumers to sue companies by demanding zero recourse even if the consumer loses. This bizarre legal structure has resulted in approximately 80 million active lawsuits in Brazil alone, more than in the US, making it one of the most litigious countries in the world. Mateus concluded this was a drag on the economy. International businesses would leave the market because of this burden. He was determined to relieve the pressure by using AI to prepare cases automatically. What used to take hours without AI now takes minutes, costs less, and is more effective for companies. When we asked the GC of a major international corporation what she would do if Enter (formerly Talisman) disappeared tomorrow, she shook her head and responded “I am done. I am done. I would die.” Mateus joined forces with the brilliant and dynamic Henrique Vaz and Michael Mac-Vicar to tackle this problem. Both are outliers. Henrique was CMO of a 9-figure marketing budget by age 28 and Mike is a repeat co-founder and CTO, building his last business to 9-figures of revenue and a 10-figure valuation. It's rare you find a team solving a big problem that's important to a nation, with excellent founder-market fit, extremely fast revenue growth, and with ever expanding market potential (they are now focused on implementing enterprise agents throughout the Brazilian economy). It's even rarer that such a team is brilliant, kind, funny and a delight to work with. Thank you and congratulations on this milestone to the Enter team!

    View profile for Mateus Costa-Ribeiro

    Co-founder and CEO @ Enter (formerly Talisman)

    Antes de uma conquista pessoal ou da nossa empresa, essa vitória é do Brasil. Depois de 12 anos, a Sequoia Capital – o principal fundo de venture capital do mundo, que investiu bem cedo em Google, Apple, Airbnb, WhatsApp, entre outras empresas – voltou a apostar no nosso país. O último investimento deles aqui foi em 2013, no Nubank, quando o banco ainda era um powerpoint. Aos nossos clientes, obrigado por imaginarem conosco uma realidade diferente pro contencioso. Ao nosso time, as infinitas noites viradas valeram a pena. VOCÊS trouxeram a Sequoia Capital de volta pro Brasil. Eu vou contar aqui a história dos bastidores de como essa rodada de investimento aconteceu. Tudo começou num jantar em Palo Alto, há um ano. Na época eu tocava a Enter (antiga Talisman) do meu dormitório no Schwab, prédio onde moram os alunos do MBA de Stanford. Acordava às 4h55 da manhã todo dia para participar da daily da empresa com nosso time de seis pessoas, às 5h (10h do horário brasileiro). Era dezembro de 2023 e nossa receita tinha crescido 10x em cinco meses (de R$8 mil para R$80 mil por mês). Essa tração inicial me convenceu a apostar minha vida nesse negócio, e decidi então abandonar o MBA. Marquei então uma conversa com o John Hennessy, ex-presidente de Stanford e hoje chairman global do Google. Ele me deu uma bolsa integral para o MBA e devo muito a ele. Não sabia como ele reagiria. Expliquei toda a situação. Ele respondeu: “I didn't expect anything different from you. Go build something big.” Já de malas prontas para voltar ao Brasil – três malas bem pesadas e com Macbooks para o time de engenharia –, recebo um cold e-mail do Konstantine Buhler, general partner da Sequoia Capital. Nós nunca tínhamos nos falado antes. Ele estava me convidando para um jantar com alguns alunos de Stanford que estavam empreendendo. Cheguei uns 30 minutos antes do horário para conseguir um lugar na mesa do lado dele. Deu errado: o jantar tinha lugar marcado e meu nome ficou lá no canto da mesa. No meio do jantar, eu aproveito a ida de um colega ao banheiro e me sento do lado dele. Faço o pitch. Falamos por uns vinte minutos. Comecei pela manchete: a Enter vai ser a maior empresa de AI da América Latina. Ele gravou. O Konstantine sempre respondia meus emails em menos de 30 minutos – sempre. No natal de 2023, nenhum investidor me mandou mensagem (e eu nem esperava), exceto ele: “wishing you a very Merry Christmas and I hope you're having a lot of success with Talisman”. Como é possível que o sócio do melhor fundo, com o melhor track record, é justamente o que se dá o trabalho de me mandar um cold email para um jantar, de mandar mensagem de natal, de cuidar desses detalhes? Talvez exatamente por isso eles sejam os melhores. Já de volta ao Brasil… [Continua no blog da Enter – link nos comentários].

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  • Sequoia Capital reposted this

    We are beyond excited to come out of stealth mode and share our partnership with Sequoia Capital! Enter was founded in 2023 with the mission of making Brazil a global leader in Artificial Intelligence. We combine human expertise with AI efficiency to help major Latin American companies optimize critical processes that are high-volume and labor-intensive. We began our journey by applying AI to create personalized lawsuit answers at scale, enabling enterprises to increase their win rates in court and become more efficient. Our clients include Nubank, Banco Bmg, iFood, SulAmérica, Light, Inter, C6 Bank, Vivo (Telefônica Brasil), Agibank, banco BV, V.tal, among others. Enter is Sequoia Capital’s second-ever investment in Brazil, the world’s leading venture capital firm. Sequoia has invested in two-thirds of NASDAQ, achieving legendary returns with companies like Apple, NVIDIA, Google, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube and more. Since its investment in Nubank — one of its most successful bets ever —, the firm had distanced itself from Brazil but has now returned to invest in artificial intelligence. With this investment, Enter becomes the first Brazilian company to join Sequoia’s AI portfolio, alongside OpenAI, xAI, Harvey, and Sierra. If you want to read more about the investment, please check out the link in the comments!

  • Sequoia Capital reposted this

    at Sequoia Capital we are now looking for… recruiters! multiple of our Series A portfolio companies are hiring first recruiters. these are crucial founding roles with A+ teams obsessed with recruiting. what we’re looking for ➡ full cycle technical recruiter ➡ exceptional sourcing abilities ➡ hunger, adaptability, scrappiness ➡ bonus: experience in early-stage companies ➡ location: bay area it’s the chance to ‼️ build a team from ~10 to ~100, ~1,000 and ~10,000 ‼️ bend the arc of what we think are some of the most promising companies ‼️ work with founders who live and breathe recruiting ‼️ work at the forefront of generative AI, with material upside if this sounds like you or someone you know, please email me!

  • Sequoia Capital reposted this

    View profile for Stephanie Zhan

    Partner at Sequoia Capital

    🚨New investment! Excited to share Sequoia Capital's partnership w/ Misha Laskin & Ioannis Alexandros Antonoglou, *the* pioneers behind AlphaGo & Gemini, on a new mission to build ReflectionAI: 🚀Build superintelligent agents to conduct all knowledge work, starting with autonomous coding agents. Reflection has built a world-class team who pioneered some of AI’s greatest breakthroughs: ✅Deep Q Networks, AlphaGo, AlphaZero and MuZero—landmark achievements in RL ✅PaLM, Character AI, ChatGPT and Gemini—cutting-edge advances in LLMs But what makes Reflection truly unique isn’t just its elite technical expertise—it’s the tight integration of research and product, combined with a customer-first approach to AI development. ❤️Legendary companies are built on solving the most ambitious problems of our lifetime. As CEO Misha puts it: “We’re working on the root node problem of our lifetime.” We have deep conviction in their potential and are honored to have been their first and long-term partner. On a personal note—working with Misha and Ioannis has been one of the greatest adventures of our lives. We’re hiring world-class researchers, engineers and product builders in San Francisco, New York and London. Come build the future with us! Read our story on why we invested: https://lnkd.in/gigM-FKu

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  • Sequoia Capital reposted this

    Today we are announcing Reflection. Our team pioneered major advances in RL and LLMs, including AlphaGo and Gemini. At Reflection, we're building superintelligent autonomous systems. We believe that solving autonomous coding will enable superintelligence more broadly. Our company is defined by three things: 1) A team behind some of the most capable RL and LLM systems ever created - the two building blocks for superintelligence. 2) A focus on building the best autonomous coding systems in the world. Rather than doing many things, we do one thing really well. 3) Equal emphasis on research and product. Superintelligence cannot be built in a vacuum. We look for colleagues who have high internal drive, integrity, and a deep interest in the problems we’re pursuing. If that’s exciting to you, join us. We’re excited to partner with Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed, and CRV and want to thank Shirin Ghaffary for covering the story. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e4Szy9bR

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