Sequoia Capital is an American 📝venture capital firm founded in 1972 by Don Valentine in Menlo Park, 📝California, that invests in technology companies from seed stage through growth and public markets. Its early portfolio includes 📝Apple, Atari, 📝Cisco, 📝Oracle, 📝Google, and 📝NVIDIA, and it managed roughly $56 billion as of January 2025.
Sequoia's later bets include 📝YouTube, 📝Airbnb, 📝WhatsApp, 📝Stripe, ByteDance, and Snowflake. In October 2021 it reorganized its US and European business around the evergreen Sequoia Capital Fund, replacing the industry's standard ten-year fund cycle, and in June 2023 it announced a split into three independent firms, completed by March 2024: HongShan in China, Peak XV Partners in India and Southeast Asia, and Sequoia in the US and Europe. Roelof Botha led the firm until November 2025, when 📝Alfred Lin and Pat Grady became joint managing partners. Under them, Sequoia broke the venture norm against backing direct competitors: already invested in 📝OpenAI and 📝xAI, it joined 📝Anthropic's early-2026 Series G and co-led its $65 billion Series H in May 2026, ahead of the 📝Anthropic IPO.