Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital Operations, LLC
Sequoia Capital
Private
Industry Venture capital
Founded 1972
Founder Don Valentine
Headquarters 2800 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park, California, USA
Number of locations
 6
Area served
 United States, China, India, Israel
Key people
 Michael Jonathan Moritz
Donald J. Valentine (founder)
Douglas Leone
Website www.sequoiacap.com

Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, California, United States.

History

Sequoia was founded by Don Valentine in 1972 in Menlo Park, California. In the mid-1990s, Valentine gave control of the company to Doug Leone and Michael Moritz.[1] Sequoia Capital China was established in 2005 as an affiliate to the U.S. firm.[2] In 2006, Sequoia Capital acquired Westbridge Capital Partners, an Indian venture capital firm. It later was renamed Sequoia Capital India.[3] Today, Sequoia has offices worldwide to support its international portfolio of companies. Locations include Menlo Park, Tel Aviv, Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Singapore, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.[4]

The firm seeks to invest in companies based in the United States for early and seed stage investments. However, for growth stage investments, it does not limit its investments to any country and recent funds have been internationally focused. It invests between $100,000 and $1 million in seed stage, between $1 million and $10 million in early stage, and between $10 million and $100 million in growth stage.[5]

Investments

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in public and private companies from all sectors. It specializes in incubation, seed stage, start-up stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies.[4]

Sequoia Capital has invested in over 250 companies since 1972, amongst others: Apple, Google, Oracle, PayPal, Stripe, YouTube, Instagram, Yahoo! and WhatsApp. The combined current public market value for these companies is over $1.4 trillion, equivalent to 22 percent of Nasdaq.[1]

Portfolio

Sequoia mainly invests in these sectors:[4]

The investments in these sectors are spread over more than 250 companies.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
  2. ↑ How Neil Shen Built A Winner At Sequoia Capital China, April 2, 2014, Alex Konrad, Forbes, retrieved March 30, 2016
  3. ↑ "How Sequoia Capital India became Asia’s most prolific venture capital firm". Quartz. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
  4. 1 2 3 "Sequoia Capital website". September 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Rao, Leena (December 17, 2012). "Sequoia Raises $700M For Global Growth Fund". Tech Crunch.
  6. ↑ "Sequoia Capital". angel.co. Retrieved 2015-12-03.

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