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Sequoia Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 1972 · Active in 2026

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420 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #2 · Global · 420 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 36% 5y
391
Decacorns ↑ 13% 5y
68
Thoroughbreds ↑ 106% 5y
268
Featured in #2Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 0.1%

Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, Sequoia Capital is the original Silicon Valley venture firm — the lead investor in Apple, Google, Cisco, YouTube, WhatsApp, Stripe, Airbnb, Nvidia and OpenAI. The firm is structured as a single permanent fund (the Sequoia Capital Fund) with separate U.S., India, China and Europe practices.

With $87.6B AUM and a 50-year compounding loop, Sequoia has the most consistent late-stage track record in venture: 214 Series B+ unicorns and 152 Series B+ companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue — more than any other firm.

Portfolio analysis

The 420 Sequoia Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA231
  2. China87
  3. India42
  4. Hong Kong9
  5. Singapore7
  6. UK6
  7. Indonesia5
  8. South Korea4
  9. Germany4
  10. Australia3
  11. Sweden2
  12. Canada2
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech61
  2. AI53
  3. Other B2B Software53
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces49
  5. Cybersecurity36
  6. Other33
  7. Transportation31
  8. Biotech & Life Sciences29
  9. Marketing28
  10. Health Tech & Medtech17
  11. Edtech11
  12. Food7
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+221
  2. Series A127
  3. Seed55
01 · Portfolio market map

Sequoia's 420 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
420 of 420 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Sequoia's founders come from — and where they study.

857 founders across the 420 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States262
China121
India116
Israel42
France37
Turkey14
Canada14
Hong Kong12
Germany12
Poland11
+41 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University76
Massachusetts Institute of Technology30
University of Pennsylvania17
Harvard University16
Stanford University Graduate School of Business16
Tsinghua University15
Berkeley15
Harvard Business School13
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi11
Tel Aviv University11
+249 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google63
Microsoft62
Meta30
Amazon17
OpenAI16
Yahoo!14
Uber13
Google DeepMind13
Apple10
Palantir9
+241 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
03 · Key people

Key people at Sequoia.

Alfred Lin
Alfred Lin
Partner · Seed/Early
Midas 2025 · #1
OpenAI
 Doug Leone
Doug Leone
Partner · Seed/Early + Growth
Midas 2025 · #7
Wiz
 Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha
Partner · Seed/Early + Growth
Midas 2025 · #13
Natera
 Pat Grady
Pat Grady
Partner · Growth
Midas 2025 · #36
Snowflake
 Luciana Lixandru
Luciana Lixandru
Partner · Seed/Early + Growth
Midas 2025 · #51 · Midas Europe 2025 · #6
UiPath
 Sonya Huang
Sonya Huang
Partner · Growth
AI Ascent · Training Data
Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
04 · Compare with peers

How does Sequoia stack up?

Sequoia in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
Sort by
Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Sequoia Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Sequoia on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about Sequoia Capital

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