List of Sequoia Capital companies they invest in.
Some infos bout them:
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. In 1999, Sequoia expanded its operations to Israel. Sequoia Capital China was established in 2005 as an affiliate to the U.S. firm. In 2006, Sequoia Capital acquired Westbridge Capital Partners, an Indian venture capital firm. It later was renamed Sequoia Capital India. CB Insights recognized Sequoia Capital as the number one venture capital firm in 2013. The U.S. firm had 11 partners as of 2016.
In 2015, Sequoia drew criticism after Moritz responded to questions about why the U.S. firm had never had a female investing partner by saying Sequoia was looking for women to hire, but "[w]hat we’re not prepared to do is to lower our standards." Members of the media, technology, and investment communities criticized the statements as suggesting "smart, driven, capable young women interested in working in technology…don’t exist." Moritz subsequently issued a statement saying, "I know there are many remarkable women who would flourish in the venture business" and said the firm was working to find them. In 2016, Sequoia hired Polyvore CEO Jess Lee as an investing partner, making her Sequoia's first female investing partner as well as one of its youngest partners.
The firm invests in both public and private companies. It specializes in incubation, seed stage, startup stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies. The company invests mainly in companies based in the United States. 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 companies that are in their growth stage.
Sequoia Capital has invested in over 250 companies since 1972, including 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. Its portfolio is mainly in financial services, healthcare, outsourcing, and technology. As of 2017, they have exited in 68 IPOs and 203 acquisitions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Capital
When we first get involved with a tiny company, nothing is obvious. If you’re looking for certainty you wind up with boring people engaged in mundane activities. We have a fondness for obsessives on a mission. This was the case when we met the founders of what would become Google, Stripe, Yahoo, and PayPal and we hope it’s true when we meet you.
There isn’t an aspect of human life that technological entrepreneurialism doesn’t touch.
Enduring Companies
Agile Software, CenterRun Software, First Republic Bank, Flex, Google, Green Dot, KAYAK, LinkedIn, PayPal, Saba Software, Skyscanner, Yahoo!, Zappos
Many kids I went to school with, their dads were unemployed or had part time work. Many of them didn’t have very much money. This was Britain in the early 1970s when there were gas strikes and coal strikes. It was pretty bleak and miserable.
Growing up in Wales made you understand what being an outsider is like.
I came to America in 1976 without actually knowing anyone here. No grand plan whatsoever. And one thing led to another. I wound up as a correspondent for Time Magazine and was transferred to San Francisco.
https://www.sequoiacap.com/people/michael-moritz/
Journalist/Immigrant becomes the leader of a 3.3 trillion dollar company…amazing.