Firm Overview

Sequoia Capital is Venture Capital & Private Equity firm founded in 1972. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the firm focuses on Seed Stage, Early Stage, Venture Stage, Growth Stage, Consumer, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare Services, Infrastructure, Internet, Mobile, Outsourcing, Technology and Venture Capital.

The Sequoia team helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. The team has worked closely with legendary founders such as Steve Jobs of Apple, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Len Bosack and Sandy Lerner of Cisco, David Filo and Jerry Yang of Yahoo!, Max Levchin, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel of PayPal, Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley of YouTube, and Reid Hoffman and Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn. Sequoia is now helping the next generation of innovators build the lasting companies of tomorrow.

In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 20% of NASDAQ’s total value. Since 2000 the firm has returned more than $10 billion to non-profits like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT.

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