Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is one of the world's most storied and influential venture capital firms, founded in 1972 by Don Valentine in Menlo Park, California, at a time when Silicon Valley's technology investment ecosystem was just beginning to take shape. The firm specializes in seed-stage, early-stage, and growth-stage investments in private technology companies across sectors including clean tech, consumer internet, crypto, financial services, healthcare, mobile, and robotics, and manages approximately $56 billion in assets under management as of early 2025. Sequoia has partnered with an extraordinary roster of category-defining companies across its more than five decades of investing, including Apple, Cisco, Oracle, Google, YouTube (acquired by Google for $1.65 billion in 2006), WhatsApp (acquired by Facebook for $19 billion in 2014), Instagram, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Stripe, DoorDash, and Zoom. Sequoia-backed companies collectively represent more than 20 percent of NASDAQ's total value, and the firm operates as an umbrella brand covering three distinct venture entities focused on the U.S. and Europe, India and Southeast Asia, and China respectively.