Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley. Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital is known for its investments in seed, early, and growth stage companies.
Ex-HubSpot exec builds an AI-powered CRM that learns for you, with $4M seed led by Sequoia
Christopher O’Donnell has hobbies. He likes music and playing guitar, but above all, he loves building software. Which is why three years after leaving HubSpot, he built Day.ai, a CRM…
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a new funding round, it said today, as Musk shores up capital to aggressively compete with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft…
Swiss fintech nsave gets $4M to enable people from unstable economies to open offshore accounts
Swiss fintech nsave, which is making banking in Switzerland accessible to people in countries with unstable banking sectors or facing high inflation, has raised $4 million seed funding. The round…
Why Sequoia is funding open source developers via a new equity-free fellowship
Sequoia Capital plans to fund up to three open source software developers annually, as a continuation of a program it debuted last year. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm announced…
Mindy gets backing from Sequoia to build an email-based AI assistant
Last year, there was an interest in agent-based AI approaches, such as AutoGPT. This year, we are seeing startups implementing some of these use cases of “let the AI do…
Oasis Security leaves stealth with $40M to lock down the wild west of non-human identity management
When people hear the term “identity management” in an enterprise context, they typically think of apps that help users authenticate who they are on a network in order to access…
Claim, a social network that lets users earn and trade rewards with friends, raises $4M
Claim, a platform that is both a rewards app and a social network, has raised $4 million in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital. The startup is on…
Developer velocity, the speed at which an organization ships code, is often impacted by necessary but lengthy processes like code review, writing documentation and testing. Inefficiencies threaten to make theses…
Chkk helps keep complex Kubernetes environments up and running
As Kubernetes is being deployed for ever more mission critical workloads, keeping clusters up and running has become increasingly important for DevOps teams. Chkk, an early-stage startup, launched out of…
Sequoia faces congressional scrutiny over investments in China
One of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investment firms will face government scrutiny over its investments in China. Sequoia Capital has received a polite but pointed request from Congress to enter…
Video editing startup Captions launches a dubbing app, Lipdub, with support for 28 languages
Captions, an AI-powered video editing startup, has launched a new app called Lipdub for translating clips into 28 languages. Lipdub is available in the App Store for free and supports…
Former Tinder CEO’s startup to fight loneliness with AI chatbot gets backing by Sequoia
Former Tinder CEO Renate Nyborg’s startup Meeno, which aims to fight loneliness through an AI-powered chatbot, announced that it has raised a $3.9 million seed round led by Sequoia. Meeno…
Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app
If a company wants to offer in-app messaging or voice calls, they don’t have to develop the infrastructure themselves when there’s something like Twilio at their disposal. Likewise, if they…
Global web3 venture funding on pace to decline for seventh straight quarter
According to the Crunchbase Web3 Tracker, funding to crypto startups around the world is on pace to notch its seventh-consecutive quarterly decline.
Sequoia Capital cuts crypto, ecosystem funds by over 50% as it continues to downsize
Sequoia Capital is the latest to pull back from crypto, paring down two major venture funds, including its crypto fund, in an effort to downsize.
Michael Moritz moves on, book-ending a long chapter at Sequoia Capital
Michael Moritz, the journalist-turned-VC who has long been one of the most prominent and respected investors at Sequoia Capital, has left the firm after 38 years to “deepen his advisory…
Meet the 19-year-old MIT dropout ‘replacing gunpowder’ for the defense industry
Silicon Valley loves its wunderkinds, but the same cannot be said of Washington, D.C., where the central mandate is not to take risks, but to de-risk. Or that’s how it’s…
Sequoia debuts Atlas, an interactive guide to the European tech talent landscape
There is an estimated 3 million software engineers in Europe, depending on what report you want to believe, but finding the right engineers for the job at hand isn’t all…
Lightspeed says India not for the faint-hearted amid Sequoia split
Bejul Somaia, the founding partner of Lightspeed India, staunchly defended the allure of South Asia’s investment landscape, even in the wake of unsettling movements such as Sequoia’s decision to segregate…
NestAway, once valued at over $225 million, sells for $11 million
Proptech firm Aurum is acquiring NestAway, a once high-flying Indian startup operating in the same space, for up to $10.9 million, in a deal that marks a near complete erosion…
Fidelity, the lead investor in Reddit’s most recent funding round in 2021, has slashed the estimated worth of its equity stake in the popular social media platform by 41% since…
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Filings reveal PE and VC returns amid escalating write-downs
Some high-profile venture capital and private equity firms are slashing the valuation of their holdings, causing billions in apparent profits to evaporate as the economic downturn undermines the sustained growth of the last 13 years. The California Pension System, the largest pension system in the U.S. whose investments are sprinkled…
Backed by Sequoia Southeast Asia, SquareX protects web users with disposable browsers
Much of our computer time is spent in a web browser, where we check emails, create documents, transfer files, carry out online banking, shop or stream entertainment. This leaves us…
Practice your pitch with Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia Capital on TechCrunch Live
TechCrunch Live records live today and tomorrow at 12:00 PDT, and you’re invited to pitch your startup. Called Pitch Practice, it should be self-explanatory. Participants have a chance to practice…
Hear from Sequoia Capital and Kleiner Perkins this week on TechCrunch Live
You’re not going to want to miss this week’s TechCrunch Live events. The startup industry is experiencing unprecedented headwinds, and we want to talk about it. There are two events…
As tensions build, Silicon Valley’s Chinese affiliates invest in sensitive space tech
Chinese subsidiaries of U.S. venture capital firms invest in technology that could be sensitive to national security.
Microservices orchestration platform Temporal raises $75M and remains a unicorn
Temporal, an open source microservices orchestration platform used by companies, including Netflix, Snap and Comcast, has raised $75 million from a slew of high-profile investors including Sequoia Capital and Greenoaks.…
Sequoia and Andreessen Horowitz invested more in fintech than any other sector in 2022
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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services
Pydantic, the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon…
If Sequoia, Paradigm and Thoma Bravo settle a new lawsuit, it could upend VC; here’s why
It was only a matter of time before frustrated customers of the fallen crypto exchange FTX went after its deep-pocketed venture backers. Indeed, the most surprising thing about a class-action…
