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Sequoia Capital
Venture capital firm · Founded 1972 · Active in 2026
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.
Sequoia’s biggest exits.
Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Sequoia’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Sequoia’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 104 companies where Sequoia is a named shareholder, worth about $141B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 104 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Sequoia’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Sequoia also appears inside investor groups in Amber Group, BaseTen, Beijing Interstellar Glory Space Technology, BharatPe, Byju's, CarDekho, Cred, D3 Bio and 20 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+115 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 420 Sequoia Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA231
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China87
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India42
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Hong Kong9
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Singapore7
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UK6
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Indonesia5
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South Korea4
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Germany4
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Australia3
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Sweden2
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Canada2
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Fintech61
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AI53
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Other B2B Software53
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eCommerce & Marketplaces49
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Cybersecurity36
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Other33
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Transportation31
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Biotech & Life Sciences29
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Marketing28
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Health Tech & Medtech17
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Edtech11
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Food7
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Series B+221
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Series A127
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Seed55
Sequoia's 420 Power Law outcomes.
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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond 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.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
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.
Key people at Sequoia.
Market sentiment
What the market 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
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Sequoia — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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