Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California, and a prominent global investor in seed, early and growth-stage startups. The firm backs companies across sectors including information technology, healthcare, financial services, energy, internet, mobile and enterprise software, often aiming to be a first investor and partner in fast-growing, proven teams. It pursues opportunities domestically in the United States and internationally in markets such as India, China and Israel, funding rounds spanning seed to growth with flexible investment sizes. Sequoia supports ambitious founders to push boundaries and build enduring companies.

Abheek Anand

Managing Director

Michelle Bailhe

Partner

Sumaiya Balbale

COO and Operating Partner

Bogomil Balkansky

Partner

Julien Bek

Partner

Past deals in Accounting

Odoo

Secondary Market in 2024
Odoo is an open-source platform that offers a comprehensive suite of integrated business applications tailored for various operational needs of companies. Its software encompasses tools for customer relationship management (CRM), eCommerce, accounting, inventory management, point of sale, and project management, among others. The applications are designed to function cohesively, enabling seamless workflows across different departments. By facilitating automation and tracking capabilities, Odoo empowers businesses to manage their operations efficiently from any device, making it a versatile solution for organizations of all sizes.

Found

Series C in 2024
Found is a financial platform tailored for self-employed individuals, offering a suite of services that simplifies business banking, bookkeeping, and tax management. The platform features built-in expense tracking and a dedicated tax savings account, allowing users to manage their finances efficiently. With no account fees and real-time business reporting, Found aims to streamline operations for self-employed professionals, enabling them to focus on growing their businesses. By addressing the unique challenges faced by self-employed individuals, Found is dedicated to helping them achieve their entrepreneurial goals.

Rippling

Series D in 2022
Rippling provides an integrated platform that combines HR, IT, payroll, and spend management to streamline the entire employee lifecycle. It automates onboarding, offboarding, payroll processing, benefits administration, and tax forms, and centralizes employee data and access management (devices, software, and email accounts) to reduce administrative work. The platform supports compliance monitoring, real-time financial visibility, and dynamic spend policies, enabling seamless IT provisioning, access control, and unified management. By removing manual tasks and enabling faster onboarding, Rippling helps companies save time, cut costs, and focus on growth.

Found

Series B in 2022
Found is a financial platform tailored for self-employed individuals, offering a suite of services that simplifies business banking, bookkeeping, and tax management. The platform features built-in expense tracking and a dedicated tax savings account, allowing users to manage their finances efficiently. With no account fees and real-time business reporting, Found aims to streamline operations for self-employed professionals, enabling them to focus on growing their businesses. By addressing the unique challenges faced by self-employed individuals, Found is dedicated to helping them achieve their entrepreneurial goals.

Ekuaibao

Series D in 2021
Ekuaibao is a developer of an online enterprise consumption and reimbursement management platform tailored for corporate clients. The company focuses on managing corporate claims and expenses, offering services that include professional ordering, cost control, and reimbursement management. Its platform is designed to assist organizations in efficiently handling employee cost reimbursements, business travel planning, and other cost management operations. By providing innovative invoice management solutions, Ekuaibao aims to help companies reduce operational costs and enhance overall efficiency.

Pilot

Series C in 2021
Pilot provides bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses. Its platform offers automated accrual basis bookkeeping, generating on-demand, accurate financial reports to reduce time, cost, and labor associated with traditional outsourced practices.

Found

Series A in 2020
Found is a financial platform tailored for self-employed individuals, offering a suite of services that simplifies business banking, bookkeeping, and tax management. The platform features built-in expense tracking and a dedicated tax savings account, allowing users to manage their finances efficiently. With no account fees and real-time business reporting, Found aims to streamline operations for self-employed professionals, enabling them to focus on growing their businesses. By addressing the unique challenges faced by self-employed individuals, Found is dedicated to helping them achieve their entrepreneurial goals.

ClearTax

Series B in 2018
ClearTax is a Bangalore-based financial technology platform that offers solutions for income tax filing, Goods and Services Tax (GST), and mutual fund investments. Founded in 2014 by Archit Gupta, Srivatsan Chari, and Ankit Solanki, ClearTax was the first company from India to receive funding from Y-Combinator. The company has attracted investment from notable figures and firms, including Max Levchin, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Neeraj Arora, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Sequoia, and Ryan Peterson. ClearTax has secured significant funding, with investments totaling $62 million from various investors. The platform capitalizes on India's digitization of tax systems to streamline financial processes for individuals and businesses.

Xinren Xinshi

Series B in 2018
Xinren Xinshi is a comprehensive human resource system that offers a SaaS-based solution tailored for enterprises in China. The platform supports a wide range of HR functions, including payroll management, employee management, recruitment, social security, performance evaluation, and work attendance. With over 16,000 customers utilizing its services, Xinren Xinshi enables small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to efficiently manage employee salaries and information. The platform also facilitates the connection of bank payroll cards to employees, streamlining salary management for its users.

Happay

Series B in 2018
Happay is a travel and expense management platform designed to streamline corporate spending. It provides businesses with a comprehensive ecosystem to manage various aspects of expenses, including reimbursements, petty cash, and travel-related costs. The platform features a fully integrated, paperless expense reporting workflow, allowing companies to efficiently handle employee expenses, flexi-benefits, allowances, and vendor payments in real-time. Happay’s solutions enable organizations to gain complete visibility and control over their spending, facilitating effective management through both mobile devices and desktops.

Happay

Series B in 2017
Happay is a travel and expense management platform designed to streamline corporate spending. It provides businesses with a comprehensive ecosystem to manage various aspects of expenses, including reimbursements, petty cash, and travel-related costs. The platform features a fully integrated, paperless expense reporting workflow, allowing companies to efficiently handle employee expenses, flexi-benefits, allowances, and vendor payments in real-time. Happay’s solutions enable organizations to gain complete visibility and control over their spending, facilitating effective management through both mobile devices and desktops.

ClearTax

Seed Round in 2016
ClearTax is a Bangalore-based financial technology platform that offers solutions for income tax filing, Goods and Services Tax (GST), and mutual fund investments. Founded in 2014 by Archit Gupta, Srivatsan Chari, and Ankit Solanki, ClearTax was the first company from India to receive funding from Y-Combinator. The company has attracted investment from notable figures and firms, including Max Levchin, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Neeraj Arora, Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Sequoia, and Ryan Peterson. ClearTax has secured significant funding, with investments totaling $62 million from various investors. The platform capitalizes on India's digitization of tax systems to streamline financial processes for individuals and businesses.

Happay

Series A in 2015
Happay is a travel and expense management platform designed to streamline corporate spending. It provides businesses with a comprehensive ecosystem to manage various aspects of expenses, including reimbursements, petty cash, and travel-related costs. The platform features a fully integrated, paperless expense reporting workflow, allowing companies to efficiently handle employee expenses, flexi-benefits, allowances, and vendor payments in real-time. Happay’s solutions enable organizations to gain complete visibility and control over their spending, facilitating effective management through both mobile devices and desktops.

Outright

Series A in 2009
Outright offers an online bookkeeping application tailored for micro-businesses, freelancers, and online sellers. It automatically imports data from various platforms like Amazon, eBay, PayPal, banks, and credit cards to track income and expenses, monitor business performance, and simplify tax preparation.

Aceva Technologies

Venture Round in 2005
Aceva Technologies, founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in providing enterprise application software solutions focused on revenue and receivables management. The company offers a range of software solutions including business analytics dashboards, transaction reconciliation, collections management, credit management, order quality, dispute prevention, inventory transaction reconciliation, deductions management, electronic invoice presentment and payment, and cash forecasting. Additionally, Aceva Technologies provides value assessment, implementation, and support services to enhance the effectiveness of these solutions. The company has offices in several locations across the United States and India.

Aceva Technologies

Series B in 2000
Aceva Technologies, founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in providing enterprise application software solutions focused on revenue and receivables management. The company offers a range of software solutions including business analytics dashboards, transaction reconciliation, collections management, credit management, order quality, dispute prevention, inventory transaction reconciliation, deductions management, electronic invoice presentment and payment, and cash forecasting. Additionally, Aceva Technologies provides value assessment, implementation, and support services to enhance the effectiveness of these solutions. The company has offices in several locations across the United States and India.

eALITY

Venture Round in 1999
eALITY offers a range of web-based application services to small- and mid-size companies. eALITY Express is the company’s primary product and is a tool that enables clients to map the approval path of purchase orders, expense reports, and other critical business processes. eALITY is based in Foster City, California.

Aceva Technologies

Series A in 1999
Aceva Technologies, founded in 1999 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, specializes in providing enterprise application software solutions focused on revenue and receivables management. The company offers a range of software solutions including business analytics dashboards, transaction reconciliation, collections management, credit management, order quality, dispute prevention, inventory transaction reconciliation, deductions management, electronic invoice presentment and payment, and cash forecasting. Additionally, Aceva Technologies provides value assessment, implementation, and support services to enhance the effectiveness of these solutions. The company has offices in several locations across the United States and India.

Rillet

Rillet is an AI-native ERP that automates accounting for complex revenue models, allowing for fast book closings and providing a reliable source of truth. The solution covers the full spectrum of accounting and finance needs, including customer invoicing, GAAP-compliant revenue recognition, automated bank reconciliations, accrual-based expense recognition, real-time SaaS metrics, and other analytics capabilities. Rillet covers multiple entities, geographies, and currencies and allows for consolidated multi-currency reportin,g all embedded within one platform.
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