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 Architecture

Cortex

Series C in 2024
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

Cortex

Series B in 2023
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

Cortex

Series A in 2021
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

Cortex

Seed Round in 2021
Cortex is a technology company based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2019. It specializes in providing an internal developer portal that enhances service quality and operational efficiency for software development teams. Cortex's application suite includes tools for managing microservices, documenting tribal knowledge, conducting service health audits, and preventing outages. The platform automates workflows for onboarding by scanning and mapping metadata from various microservices sources, inferring critical details like ownership and on-call rotations. This comprehensive approach enables developers to prioritize work effectively, ensuring a smoother incident response and facilitating the creation of production readiness checklists, security audits, and assessments of operational maturity.

Graphcore

Series E in 2020
Graphcore is a hardware systems company that develops intelligent processing units to accelerate machine learning. It designs IPUs and offers IPU-Accelerator cards that plug into servers to accelerate training and inference, and IPU-Appliance products that deliver higher performance for inference and training workloads. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, the company maintains additional locations in Palo Alto, London, Oslo, and Beijing. Its IPU architecture enables running current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster across various servers and processors, supporting a range of AI workloads.

Graphcore

Series D in 2018
Graphcore is a hardware systems company that develops intelligent processing units to accelerate machine learning. It designs IPUs and offers IPU-Accelerator cards that plug into servers to accelerate training and inference, and IPU-Appliance products that deliver higher performance for inference and training workloads. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, the company maintains additional locations in Palo Alto, London, Oslo, and Beijing. Its IPU architecture enables running current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster across various servers and processors, supporting a range of AI workloads.

Graphcore

Series C in 2017
Graphcore is a hardware systems company that develops intelligent processing units to accelerate machine learning. It designs IPUs and offers IPU-Accelerator cards that plug into servers to accelerate training and inference, and IPU-Appliance products that deliver higher performance for inference and training workloads. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, the company maintains additional locations in Palo Alto, London, Oslo, and Beijing. Its IPU architecture enables running current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster across various servers and processors, supporting a range of AI workloads.

Cerebras Systems

Series C in 2017
Cerebras Systems Inc. is a technology company that specializes in manufacturing artificial intelligence chips specifically designed for deep learning applications. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California, the company is dedicated to creating advanced computing systems that significantly accelerate deep learning tasks. By integrating expertise in computer architecture with machine learning, Cerebras develops innovative technologies that aim to enhance AI performance and transform the landscape of artificial intelligence. Through its unique design principles, the company seeks to push the boundaries of what is possible in AI computing.

D5 Render

Angel Round in 2016
D5 Render is a technology company focused on real-time ray-tracing rendering, primarily aimed at enhancing visualization and rendering capabilities for users. Utilizing Microsoft DXR and advanced ray tracing technologies, D5 Render effectively integrates the benefits of ray tracing and rasterization to optimize rendering speeds. Recognized as one of the top independent software vendors by NVidia at Siggraph 2019, the company has established itself as a leader in architectural software, achieving significant performance accolades in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry, including a top ranking on G2 in 2021. In addition to its rendering solutions, D5 Render is also developing Augmented Reality (AR) technology targeted at the furniture manufacturing sector, aiming to innovate traditional home improvement processes through comprehensive technological solutions.

Sencha

Series B in 2011
Sencha Inc., headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in enterprise Web application development. It offers a comprehensive Web application lifecycle management platform, enabling Fortune 100 companies worldwide to streamline their software development process. Sencha's product suite includes testing tools, JavaScript frameworks (Ext JS, GXT, Touch), productivity tools (Sencha IDE Plugins, Cmd, Inspector), and a visual application builder (Sencha Architect). Additionally, they provide professional services such as architecture review, application modernization, and custom development, along with training, maintenance, and support. Sencha's platform empowers enterprises to build, test, and deploy cross-platform Web applications, ensuring the right user experience across various devices.

Nimbula

Series B in 2010
Nimbula is a cloud infrastructure software company that enables enterprises and service providers to construct private, public, or hybrid clouds. Founded by industry veterans Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, who previously developed Amazon EC2, Nimbula offers its flagship product, Nimbula Director, which is designed to be scalable, highly automated, and user-friendly while providing complete control over cloud environments. The company’s solutions combine the flexibility and operational efficiencies typically associated with public clouds with the control and security of traditional data centers. Nimbula is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with a development team located in South Africa. It has participated in the OpenStack Foundation to further advance cloud software technologies. Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation, reflecting its impactful role in the cloud software market.

Sencha

Series A in 2010
Sencha Inc., headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in enterprise Web application development. It offers a comprehensive Web application lifecycle management platform, enabling Fortune 100 companies worldwide to streamline their software development process. Sencha's product suite includes testing tools, JavaScript frameworks (Ext JS, GXT, Touch), productivity tools (Sencha IDE Plugins, Cmd, Inspector), and a visual application builder (Sencha Architect). Additionally, they provide professional services such as architecture review, application modernization, and custom development, along with training, maintenance, and support. Sencha's platform empowers enterprises to build, test, and deploy cross-platform Web applications, ensuring the right user experience across various devices.

Nimbula

Series A in 2010
Nimbula is a cloud infrastructure software company that enables enterprises and service providers to construct private, public, or hybrid clouds. Founded by industry veterans Chris Pinkham and Willem van Biljon, who previously developed Amazon EC2, Nimbula offers its flagship product, Nimbula Director, which is designed to be scalable, highly automated, and user-friendly while providing complete control over cloud environments. The company’s solutions combine the flexibility and operational efficiencies typically associated with public clouds with the control and security of traditional data centers. Nimbula is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with a development team located in South Africa. It has participated in the OpenStack Foundation to further advance cloud software technologies. Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation, reflecting its impactful role in the cloud software market.

Luxim

Venture Round in 2009
Luxim is a lighting technology company that designs, manufactures, and supplies LIFI solid-state plasma lighting products for commercial and residential use. Its lighting solutions cover applications such as roadway, area, highbay, highmast, architectural, and entertainment settings. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Satellier

Series B in 2007
Satellier, Inc. is a prominent provider of workshare, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), and Building Information Modeling (BIM) services, catering to the architecture, engineering, construction, and building ownership sectors both in the United States and internationally. Established in 2000 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the company specializes in delivering BIM and CAD support tailored for architectural, engineering, and MEP disciplines. Satellier also offers design management services for real estate developers and corporate clients in India. The firm serves a diverse array of clients, including building owners, governments, and contractors, across various markets such as retail, healthcare, residential, mixed-use facilities, hospitality, and education. Additionally, Satellier is recognized for its expertise in Virtual Design & Construction (VDC), offering services that encompass model development, consulting, training, and high-quality presentation services, including digital media productions.
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