# Sequoia Capital

> Sequoia Capital is a VC fund backing Software and Information Technology. See 2,095 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 2,095
- Last investment: Aug 2026
- Lead investor: 39%
- Fund size: $65M
- Last fund: Oct 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sequoia
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sequoia
- Website: http://www.sequoiacap.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SequoiaCap

Sequoia Capital is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Software and Information Technology. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $6.4M–$50M |
| Series B | $11M–$100M |
| Series C | $12M–$230M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 278 | 13% |
| Information Technology | 133 | 6% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 108 | 5% |
| Enterprise Software | 79 | 4% |
| Internet | 77 | 4% |

412 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 297 | 14% |
| Series B | 287 | 14% |
| Series C | 212 | 10% |
| Seed | 190 | 9% |
| Series D | 139 | 7% |

22 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 594 | 28% |
| China | 57 | 3% |
| India | 44 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 26 | 1% |
| Germany | 15 | 1% |

41 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Anas Biad | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anas-biad |
| Andrew Lee | Vice President | 11 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-lee |
| Carl Eschenbach | Partner | 18 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-eschenbach |
| Caroline Fu | Vice President | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/caroline-fu |
| Donald Valentine | Founder | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/don-valentine |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Corma | Corma develops foundation models and artificial intelligence systems for defensive cybersecurity. The company provides AI-powered security agents that work alongside human security teams to detect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats across existing security tools and infrastructure. Its foundation models are designed specifically fordefensive cybersecurity and generalize across security tasks, enabling organizations to automate threat detection, investigation, response, and other security operations. Corma's technology can be deployed within an organization's existing security environment and supports on-premises deployment and post-training using customer security data and context. The company focuses on developing AI systems that help organizations strengthen cybersecurity defenses as artificial intelligence enables increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks. | $60M | Seed | Aug 10, 2026 |  |
| Valar Atomics | Uses nuclear fission to create gas and oil from ambient air. | $1B | Series B | Aug 03, 2026 |  |
| Ellis | Ellis is an AI-native operations platform for private credit. | $10M | Seed | Jul 30, 2026 |  |
| Etched | Etched.ai designing specialized chips for language model inference. | $300M | Series C | Jul 23, 2026 |  |
| Glow | Glow is an AI-powered endpoint security company.Glow’s AI agents create a single source of truth across devices, people, and software, understand risk in the context of your policies, and - within the guardrails you set - autonomously prevent problems before they become incidents. | $100M | Series B | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Glow | Glow is an AI-powered endpoint security company.Glow’s AI agents create a single source of truth across devices, people, and software, understand risk in the context of your policies, and - within the guardrails you set - autonomously prevent problems before they become incidents. | $100M | Series B | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Zafran Security | Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Zafran Security | Zafran Security is a cybersecurity startup specializing in vulnerability prioritization and threat exposure management, aiming to identify, remediate, and mitigate risks within organizations. The AI-native exposure management platform developed by the company aims to proactively avert the exploitation of vulnerabilities by incorporating autonomousagents throughout all stages of the vulnerability management lifecycle. With threat actors rapidly exploiting newly revealed security vulnerabilities through AI automation, Zafran's platform enables organizations to take action before these vulnerabilities result in incidents. The company’s solutions work alongside current security tools, utilizing AI agents to pinpoint weaknesses, provide contextual information, and address these issues by linking them to controls and evaluating the potential for exploitation. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Cathedral | Cathedral is an early-stage, stealth defense technology startup that builds artificial intelligence software designed to expand U.S. military cyber capabilities. The firm specializes in delivering both offensive and defensive cybersecurity infrastructure tailored to counter cyber warfare actions from foreign adversaries like China. | $160M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Cathedral | Cathedral is an early-stage, stealth defense technology startup that builds artificial intelligence software designed to expand U.S. military cyber capabilities. The firm specializes in delivering both offensive and defensive cybersecurity infrastructure tailored to counter cyber warfare actions from foreign adversaries like China. | $160M | Series A | Jul 22, 2026 |  |

10 of 2,095 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 201 deals together
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- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 112 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 104 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Sequoia Capital invest in?

Sequoia Capital invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 2,095 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sequoia Capital's check size?

Sequoia Capital typically joins rounds of $6.4M–$50M at Series A, $11M–$100M at Series B and $12M–$230M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sequoia Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Sequoia Capital?

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### Who are the partners at Sequoia Capital?

The team at Sequoia Capital includes Anas Biad (Partner), Andrew Lee (Vice President) and Carl Eschenbach (Partner), among 79 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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