# Anas Biad

> Anas Biad is a Series A investor at Sequoia Capital backing Artificial Intelligence and FinTech. See 12 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Sequoia Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sequoia-capital)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 12
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anas-biad-94742684
- Website: https://x.com/biad_anas

Anas Biad is a Partner at Sequoia, where he focuses on growth-stage companies across enterprise and consumer. He joined Sequoia from Silver Lake, where he worked on a number of the firm's technology investments across Europe. Prior to that, he was with Bain focusing on strategy and due diligence for tech companies. Anas has a MSc inMathematics from Ecole Polytechnique.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 42% |
| FinTech | 3 | 25% |
| Software | 3 | 25% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 25% |
| Finance | 2 | 17% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 5 | 42% |
| Series B | 3 | 25% |
| Series C | 2 | 17% |
| Seed | 1 | 8% |
| Series E | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 4 | 33% |
| France | 2 | 17% |
| Germany | 2 | 17% |
| Estonia | 1 | 8% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 8% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Profound | FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do. | $96M | Series C | Feb 24, 2026 |  |
| Serval | Serval is an AI-native IT service management (ITSM) platform designed to give modern teams superpowers. | $75M | Series B | Dec 11, 2025 |  |
| Profound | FatherSonMatchingShirts store offers a wide variety of apparel such as t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, and mugs. We're trying our best to bring customers. You are welcome to FatherSonMatchingShirts. We're trying our best to bring customers the shirts are made of high quality materials for maximum comfort in whatever you do. | $35M | Series B | Aug 12, 2025 |  |
| Nominal | Nominal is the faster, more reliable way to validate mission-critical systems. We build workflows for the modern hardware team. | $75M | Series B | Jun 12, 2025 |  |
| Avelios Medical | Avelios is a modular clinic platform that digitizes and optimizes all clinic processes in a user-friendly way. The state-of-the-art software supports all staff in their daily work and additionally enables the development and use of innovations such as artificial intelligence, Big Data, telemedicine, patient applications and wearables tofundamentally improve patient care and research. | $31.2M | Series A | Feb 06, 2025 |  |
| Harvey | Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $21M | Series A | Apr 11, 2023 |  |
| VEED | Veed is a video editor designed to make producing short-form video content simple. The platform utilizes AI tools to enhance video editing, simplifying the process and making it accessible to users without extensive editing experience. VEED offers a user-friendly interface with a range of features tailored for quick and efficient video productionright from idea to final cut. | $35M | Series A | Feb 02, 2022 |  |
| Upway | Upway offers an online platform focused on refurbished electric bicycles, providing consumers with access to inspected, repaired, and certified e-bikes from a variety of categories, including city, cargo, mountain, and folding models. The company acquires used or excess bikes from individuals, retailers, and fleets, performs comprehensivemechanical and electrical reconditioning, and then resells the bikes with a one-year warranty and delivery service. Upway also offers a trade-in option for owners looking to sell their e-bike, and supplies accessories like locks, lights, and bags to complement the purchase. The business emphasizes sustainable mobility by extending the life of existing e-bikes and delivering them at a lower cost than typical new bike retail. | $5.6M | Seed | Nov 29, 2021 |  |
| Ledgy | Ledgy is a developer of a valuation tracking platform designed to manage equity capital and employee participation.The company's platform streamlines the overview of vesting plans, phantom programs, and numbered shares. This gives entrepreneurs and shareholders insights into their capital table, funding rounds, or exit talks.Ledgy wasestablished on July 3, 2017 by Ben Brandt, Timo Horstschaefer, and Yoko Spirig in Zurich, Switzerland. | $10M | Series A | Sep 07, 2021 |  |
| Bolt | Bolt is a transportation platform providing ride-hailing, micromobility, and food delivery services. It is one of the fastest-growing startups in the world with over 75M happy customers in 45+ countries, from Europe to Latam to Africa. It is building the future of logistics – one platform that connects with cars, motorcycles, scooter sharing, orfood delivery from restaurants.It believes in a future with less car ownership and flexible urban mobility. By bringing reliable on-demand transport to the masses, it helps cities evolve towards decreased traffic congestion and pollution.Bolt was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia. | $712.4M | Series E | Aug 02, 2021 |  |

10 of 12 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Saga Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/saga-ventures-management) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Global Founders Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/global-founders-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Sequoia Capital

VC Fund · Menlo Park, United States

Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible.The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services,healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

5 contacts available at Sequoia Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Anas Biad | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anas-biad |
| Andrew Lee | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-lee |
| Carl Eschenbach | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-eschenbach |
| Caroline Fu | Vice President | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-fu |
| Donald Valentine | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-valentine |

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## FAQ

### What does Anas Biad invest in?

Anas Biad invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, FinTech and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 12 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Anas Biad last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Anas Biad closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 12 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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