Sequoia Capital
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| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Venture capital |
| Founded | 1972 |
| Founder(s) | Don Valentine |
| Headquarters |
3000 Sand Hill Road Menlo Park, California, USA |
| Number of locations | 6 |
| Website | www.sequoiacap.com |
Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm located in Menlo Park, California, United States.
The firm
Sequoia was founded by Don Valentine in 1972 in Menlo Park, California, and today has offices worldwide to support its international portfolio of companies.[1]
Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed stage, start-up stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies. It also invests in public companies. The firm seeks to invest in all sectors, see portfolio section below.[2]
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.[3]
Portfolio
Sequoia invests in these sectors: Sequoia Capital's full portfolio can be seen on its website.[2]
- Financial services
Within financial services, it invests in banking, brokerage, payments, and enabling technology.
- Healthcare
Within healthcare, the firm invests across diagnostic services, genetics services, lab services, patient services, product development services, and enabling technology companies.
- Internet
Within Internet, it invests in advertising, communications, ecommerce, games, media, search, social networking, and enabling technology companies.
- Mobile sector
Within the mobile sector, the firm invests in advertising, applications, devices and enabling technology companies.
- Outsourcing
Within outsourcing, it invests across business process outsourcing, hosting services, managed services, professional services and software development services.
- Technology
Within technology, the firm invests in semiconductor, sub-systems, systems, software, and services companies.
- Other
It also invests in optical components; computer, subsystems, and communication systems; and consumer and professional services.
Investments
The firm's investments include Airbnb, Apple, Aruba Networks, Google, YouTube, Zomato, PayPal, Instagram, Medallia, Meraki, Cisco Systems, Oracle, Electronic Arts, Skyhigh Networks, TuneIn, Yahoo!, NVIDIA, Lattice Engines, Navigenics, Cotendo, Atari, Ameritox, Kayak, Meebo, Admob, Knowlarity Communications, Zappos, Adallom, Seculert,[4] Green Dot, LinkedIn,[5] Skyscanner[6] and Kontera.[7] With its broad range of highly successful investments, Sequoia estimates that 19% of the NASDAQ’s value is made up of firms that they have invested in.[8]
See also
- Business plan
- Entrepreneurship
- Private Equity
- Startup company
- Silicon Valley
- Roelof Botha
References
- ↑ "Sequoia Capital - Don Valentine Profile".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sequoia Capital website". September 4, 2013.
- ↑ Rao, Leena (December 17, 2012). "Sequoia Raises $700M For Global Growth Fund". Tech Crunch.
- ↑ Israeli cyber security firm Seculert raises $10 mln in funding. Reuters. Retrieved on 2013-09-18.
- ↑ "Sequoia Capital Portfolio".
- ↑ http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5ae0eed0-2b86-11e3-a1b7-00144feab7de.html
- ↑ http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/23/kontera-raises-155m-for-annoying-in-text-advertising-technology
- ↑ Cohan, Peter (September 26, 2012). "Achievers Gets Sequoia's Capital To Boost Employee Engagement". Forbes.
External links
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