Gaurav Garg
Partner @ Sequoia Capital
San Francisco, United States
Gaurav Garg is a Founding Partner of Wing since February 2011. Gaurav has led investments in a number of early stage technology companies and currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Ruckus Wireless (NYSE: RKUS), FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE), MobileIron (Nasdaq: MOBL), Jasper, Shape Security, Instart Logic, Cohesity, Apprity andpreviously Netscaler (acquired by CTXS). Gaurav has helped build Ruckus and FireEye over 10 years each from incubation into public companies, and he incubated Jasper and Instart Logic from concept stage. Gaurav was a Partner at Sequoia Capital from 2001 to 2010 and a Special Limited Partner from 2010-2012. Gaurav worked extensively with Sequoia Capital’s investments in Aruba Networks (Nasdaq: ARUN), Jawbone (aka Aliph), and RingCentral (NYSE: RNG). Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Gaurav founded Redback Networks (Nasdaq: RBAK) in 1996, and served as a board member and Senior Vice President of Product Management. Prior to Redback Networks, Gaurav held various engineering positions at SynOptics and Bay Networks. Gaurav holds a B.S. degree and M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Computer Science, all from Washington University in St. Louis.
- Total investments:
- 77
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 23%
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Industries Gaurav Garg invests in
Stages Gaurav Garg invests in
Countries Gaurav Garg invests in
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Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$12M
- Series A
- $5M–$20M
- Series B
- $9M–$32M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Mobile 11 (14%)
- Artificial Intelligence 11 (14%)
- Security 10 (13%)
- Software 10 (13%)
- Cyber Security 6 (8%)
Stage
- Series A 19 (25%)
- Series B 12 (16%)
- Seed 10 (13%)
- Series C 9 (12%)
- Series D 8 (10%)
Country
- United States 31 (40%)
- India 1 (1%)
- Singapore 1 (1%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Synthefy focuses on foundation models for structured data, especially time-series forecasting and decision intelligence. | $6.5M / Seed / Aug 18, 2026 | ||
| BoomPop has helped 6,000+ companies (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Shopify) with team offsite, retreats, client events, annual meetings, sales kickoffs, incentive trips, and more. BoomPop combines expert event planning services with next-generation software to help organizations plan thoughtful experiences. | $25M / Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Findem is a talent-acquisition technology firm that offers an AI-driven “Talent Data Cloud designed to help companies identify, attract, and engage top candidates more efficiently. The company features capabilities such as its Copilot for Sourcing, which can turn a job description into a verified shortlist of candidates pulled across all hiringchannels with a single click. It also supports talent teams with analytics, diversity tracking, CRM-style talent pool management, and automated outbound outreach to potential hires. | $36M / Series C / Oct 21, 2025 | ||
| Tahoe Therapeutics develops AI-powered tools to simulate human cell responses and guide drug discovery. It operates a platform called Mosaic that produces large-scale single-cell datasets detailing how drug molecules interact with diverse patient cells, with initial applications in oncology. It open-sources its Tahoe-100M dataset, comprisinghundreds of millions of single-cell profiles, to train AI models that build virtual cell models for therapeutic insights. A recent funding round enabled the creation of an even larger dataset, targeting one billion cell datapoints and one million drug-patient interactions, designed to fuel next-generation precision medicines | $30M / Series A / Aug 11, 2025 | ||
| Theom is an IT company that provides an AI-native data operations center platform to discover, track, and protect enterprise data in cloud environments. Its platform delivers immediate value by uncovering risks to data loss and prioritizing corrective actions and helps enterprises to focus on growing their business by securely using data in thecloud. Its data operations center platform also puts data context, usage, and risk intelligence at the core of governance and security operations, helping teams move fast without compromising customer trust. | $20M / Series A / May 12, 2025 | ||
| Tahoe Therapeutics develops AI-powered tools to simulate human cell responses and guide drug discovery. It operates a platform called Mosaic that produces large-scale single-cell datasets detailing how drug molecules interact with diverse patient cells, with initial applications in oncology. It open-sources its Tahoe-100M dataset, comprisinghundreds of millions of single-cell profiles, to train AI models that build virtual cell models for therapeutic insights. A recent funding round enabled the creation of an even larger dataset, targeting one billion cell datapoints and one million drug-patient interactions, designed to fuel next-generation precision medicines | $12M / Seed / Dec 08, 2022 | ||
| iTribe is a one-stop solution for customers to get news related to stocks, advisors, and investment ideas in real-time without any bundle. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Apr 12, 2022 | ||
| Jaris offers purpose-built, private-label embedded financial solutions that help POS systems, ISVs, SaaS businesses, and marketplaces drive engagement, reduce churn, and increase revenue. | $31M / Series B / Aug 18, 2021 | ||
| Cohesity is a data management technology company that provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, file services, and analytics. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, organizations can secure, manage, and recover data at an enterprise scale while gaining insights through AI capabilities. | $145M / Aug 01, 2021 | ||
| Cohesity is a data management technology company that provides hyper-converged secondary storage solutions for backups, file services, and analytics. With the Cohesity Data Cloud, organizations can secure, manage, and recover data at an enterprise scale while gaining insights through AI capabilities. | $145M / Secondary Market / Mar 30, 2021 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital provides capital alongside strategic guidance, supporting areas such as product development, company building, and market expansion. The firm engages with a limited number of companies at a time, working closely with leadership teams throughout the business lifecycle. Sequoia Capital focuses on long-term partnerships, often entering at the idea or formation stage and remaining involved as companies scale and mature. Its approach emphasizes collaboration among its internal team and portfolio founders, drawing on shared experience to address operational and strategic challenges.
Sequoia Capital Contacts
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Anas Biad
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Andrew Lee
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Carl Eschenbach
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Caroline Fu
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Donald Valentine
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What does Gaurav Garg invest in?
Gaurav Garg invests primarily in Mobile, Artificial Intelligence and Security startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 77 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Gaurav Garg invest in?
Gaurav Garg typically joins rounds of $1M–$12M at Seed, $5M–$20M at Series A and $9M–$32M at Series B. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Gaurav Garg's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Gaurav Garg took part in.
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When did Gaurav Garg last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gaurav Garg closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 77 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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