Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a prominent venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. The firm specializes in investing across various stages of startups, including seed, early, and growth stages, and focuses on sectors such as technology, healthcare, financial services, internet, and mobile. Sequoia typically invests between $100,000 and $1 million in seed companies, $1 million to $10 million in early-stage ventures, and $10 million to $100 million in growth investments. The firm operates globally, with significant activities in regions like Israel, China, and India, where it partners with dynamic founders to build successful companies. Sequoia's extensive portfolio includes notable firms and offers valuable insights and resources, benefiting from decades of experience in the venture capital landscape.

Gian Adhitya

Associate

Rohit Agarwal

Investment Analyst

Akshay Agarwal

Associate

Suraj Agarwalla

Associate

Ashish Agrawal

Managing Director

Abheek Anand

Managing Director

Rajan Anandan

Managing Director

Bogomil Balkansky

Partner

Julien Bek

Partner

Mohit Bhatnagar

Managing Director

Roelof Botha

Executive

Jaime Bott

Partner of Human Capital

Anni Cai

Associate

Sakshi Chopra

Principal

William Coughran Ph.D

Partner

Chinmaya Golecha

VP

Ajey Gore

Operating Partner of Technology

Pat Grady

Partner

Irwin R. Gross

MD

Rachit Gupta

Associate

Kriti Gupta

Associate

Augustus Ilag

Associate

SK Jain

Co-Founderand MD

Amit Jain

Managing Director

Steve Yue Ji

Partner

Liu Jiang

Partner

Sandeep Kapoor

CLO and Compliance Officer, India

Aakash Kapoor

VP

Pieter Kemps

Principal

Kais Khimji

Partner

Shailesh Lakhani

Principal

Jess Lee

Partner

Doug Leone

Partner

Alfred Lin

Partner

Junrui Lin

Partner and Co-Head

Luciana Lixandru

Partner

Cherry Lu

Partner

Patricia Ma

Director of People Operations

Shaun Maguire Ph.D

Partner

Nipun Mehra

VP and Investment Advisor

Matthew Miller

Partner, Growth

Ishaan Mittal

Principal

Abhishek Mohan

Vice President

Anirudh Bose Mullick

Head of Recruitment and VP

Shreyas Nair

Senior Associate

Kevin Pan

Managing Director

Prachi Pawar

Associate

Mayank Porwal

VP

Enita Pu

Partner

Amrut Rajkarne

Associate

GV Ravishankar

Managing Director

Andrew Reed

Partner

Prasanna Rengarajan

Associate

Anandamoy Roychowdhary

Principal

Anjana Sasidharan

Principal

Harshjit Sethi

Principal

Tejeshwi Sharma

Managing Director

Navendu Sharma

Associate

Neil Shen

Managing Partner

Bharat Singh

Chief Financial Officer

Thomas Stephenson

Partner

Amy Sun

Partner

Johan Surani

vice_president

Ian Taylor

Head of scouts

Shraeyansh Thakur

Investment Analyst

Mike Vernal

Partner

Jeffrey Wang

Managing Partner & Portfolio Manager

Shenya Wang

Associate

Cen Wang

Partner, China

Klaus Wang

VP

Past deals in Blockchain

Coinshift

Series A in 2022
Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.

LayerZero Labs

Series A in 2022
LayerZero Labs is an omnichain interoperability protocol that unites decentralized applications (dapps) across disparate blockchains.

CertiK

Series B in 2022
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.

Finblox

Seed Round in 2022
Finblox is the alternative crypto investment and savings account.

Multis

Venture Round in 2022
Multis, Inc. provides financial services tailored for companies and entrepreneurs managing both fiat and cryptocurrencies. Its crypto wallet is designed to facilitate various financial operations, including storing digital assets, making payments to suppliers, managing payroll, and earning interest. The platform offers real-time monitoring of balances and transactions through a centralized dashboard, supports multi-access to assets, and enables features such as recurring payments and currency conversion. Founded in 2006, Multis is headquartered in San Francisco, California, while its team operates across Europe. The company aims to assist businesses in navigating the complexities of cryptocurrency, thereby promoting a global, borderless economy.

Finblox

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Finblox is the alternative crypto investment and savings account.

CertiK

Series B in 2021
CertiK Global Ltd. is a company specializing in blockchain security, focusing on the formal verification of smart contracts and blockchain ecosystems. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Beijing, Seoul, and Seattle, CertiK provides a range of services including security audits, penetration testing, and custom formal verification. The company has developed advanced techniques to mathematically prove the correctness and security of blockchain applications, distinguishing its approach from traditional security audits. By employing artificial intelligence and leveraging both on-chain and off-chain data, CertiK offers developers real-time insights into the security of decentralized finance and other critical applications. With a commitment to securing over $6 billion in assets, CertiK has established itself as a leader in the blockchain security industry, serving many of the world's top projects.

Fireblocks

Series E in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Iron Fish

Series A in 2021
Iron Fish is a cryptocurrency that prioritizes privacy and accessibility within the blockchain space. As a Layer 1 blockchain, it ensures robust privacy protections for every transaction conducted on its platform. The company aims to create private blockchain networks that are accessible to a global audience, employing an efficient syncing technique that supports low-resource clients, including mobile devices and websites. By focusing on these aspects, Iron Fish seeks to uphold the principles of cash in an increasingly digital environment.

Beta Finance

Venture Round in 2021
Beta Finance is a permissionless money market protocol for lending, borrowing, and short-selling crypto assets. It aims to offset crypto volatility and bring market stability. Its one-click solution enables traders without technical know-how to manage and update their short positions on any token with all relevant token information directly available on the interface to guide their decision.

Coinshift

Seed Round in 2021
Coinshift is a crypto treasury management platform that helps businesses and decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO's) manage their crypto easily and empowers users to collaborate and approve transactions, execute mass pay-outs, etc.

BitClout

Initial Coin Offering in 2021
BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users. BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.

Fireblocks

Series D in 2021
Fireblocks Inc. is a New York-based company that specializes in blockchain-based security solutions for managing digital assets. Founded in 2018, it offers a platform that safeguards the transmission of digital assets among exchanges, counter brokers, hot wallets, and cold storage. The company primarily serves financial institutions, providing a secure method for moving funds efficiently and safely. In addition to its headquarters in New York, Fireblocks has a presence in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Babel Bank

Series A in 2021
Babel Bank is a prominent financial institution operating in the blockchain sector, with its headquarters in Iraq. The company specializes in providing a range of cryptocurrency financial services tailored for high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients globally. These services include cryptocurrency deposits, credit facilities, structured asset management, prime brokerage, and derivatives strategies. Babel Bank has extended its reach across the Asian market, with branches in major cities such as Singapore, Beijing, and Seoul. It has forged strong partnerships with leading institutions, including exchanges, custodians, investment funds, and mining organizations worldwide. The core team at Babel Bank comprises professionals with backgrounds in top-tier financial institutions and technology companies, bringing significant expertise to the cryptocurrency space. The firm has garnered support from distinguished venture capital funds and completed a Pre-A round of financing in March 2020, further solidifying its position in the industry.

BitClout

Funding Round in 2021
BitClout is an open-source social media platform that builds a Proof-of-Work blockchain for its users. BitClout is a new type of social network that speculates on people and posts with real money, and it’s built from the ground up as its own custom blockchain. Its architecture is similar to Bitcoin, only it can support complex social network data like posts, profiles, follows, speculation features, and much more at significantly higher throughput and scale.

Conflux Foundation

Series A in 2019
Conflux Foundation Ltd., established in 2018 and located in Singapore, specializes in blockchain technology services. It operates a public blockchain system designed to achieve high transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining decentralization and security. Utilizing a unique algorithm and an innovative structure known as Tree Graph (TG), Conflux addresses performance limitations typically associated with consensus mechanisms. This approach mitigates various challenges faced in the industrialization of public chains. In its initial phase, Conflux employs a Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism as the foundation for its consensus protocol.

UCH Growth Value Ecology

Angel Round in 2019
UCH Growth Value Ecology is a blockchain financial technology service provider, mainly engaged in blockchain financial technology related business.

Band Protocol

Seed Round in 2019
Band Protocol is a cross-chain data oracle platform that facilitates the connection between real-world data and smart contracts, allowing decentralized applications to access external information securely. Founded in 2017 and based in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, Band Protocol offers a permissionless blockchain protocol that supports the creation of tokenized marketplaces and communities. It enables the tokenization of real-world products and the generation of new digital assets, such as unique digital collectibles and attention tokens. By aggregating data from various sources, Band Protocol empowers decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, prediction markets, and gaming platforms to operate on-chain without relying on centralized oracles, thereby mitigating the risk of single points of failure.

TEEX

Angel Round in 2019
TEEX Foundation Pte. Ltd. develops and provides distributed computing platform that provides a Layer-2 solution based on blockchain, trusted execution environment (TEE), and cryptography. It offers solutions, such as TEE-based privacy protection, native execution environment that can achieve native performance without any runtime overhead, software and Hardware design using cryptography to realize the verifiability of data and control flow inside the enclave. The company also provides applications, including user client, executor, dispatcher, and wallet that provides interfaces for end users; TEEX network; and ethereum based public network. TEEX Foundation Pte. Ltd. was founded 2018 and is based in Singapore.

Conflux Foundation

Series A in 2018
Conflux Foundation Ltd., established in 2018 and located in Singapore, specializes in blockchain technology services. It operates a public blockchain system designed to achieve high transactions per second (TPS) while maintaining decentralization and security. Utilizing a unique algorithm and an innovative structure known as Tree Graph (TG), Conflux addresses performance limitations typically associated with consensus mechanisms. This approach mitigates various challenges faced in the industrialization of public chains. In its initial phase, Conflux employs a Proof of Work (PoW) mechanism as the foundation for its consensus protocol.

Nervos Network

Series A in 2018
Nervos Network provides a hybrid solution that combines public blockchain and an application chain that allows enterprise to build and deploy decentralized application without committing tech stack to the blockchain. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Hangzhou, China.

Orchid Labs

Venture Round in 2018
Orchid Labs is an open-source initiative focused on combating internet surveillance and censorship. Founded in 2017 by a team including Dr. Steven Waterhouse and Jay Freeman, the company develops a decentralized nanopayment platform that enhances internet accessibility. Its innovative approach employs an overlay network built on the existing internet, utilizing a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange. This technology empowers users to protect their personal data while facilitating secure communication, collaboration, and information access. Overall, Orchid Labs aims to create a more inclusive and liberated online environment for all users.

Internet of Services

Initial Coin Offering in 2018
The Internet of Services (IOS) offers a secure & scalable infrastructure for online service providers. Its high TPS, scalable and secure blockchain, and privacy protection provide infinite possibilities for online service providers to serve their customer base. IOST has offices in Beijing and San Francisco.

Guanguan Coin

Series A in 2018
Cat can blockchain

Orchid Labs

Seed Round in 2017
Orchid Labs is an open-source initiative focused on combating internet surveillance and censorship. Founded in 2017 by a team including Dr. Steven Waterhouse and Jay Freeman, the company develops a decentralized nanopayment platform that enhances internet accessibility. Its innovative approach employs an overlay network built on the existing internet, utilizing a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange. This technology empowers users to protect their personal data while facilitating secure communication, collaboration, and information access. Overall, Orchid Labs aims to create a more inclusive and liberated online environment for all users.

Filecoin

Initial Coin Offering in 2017
Filecoin is a data storage network that enables users to rent disk space for file storage. It operates as a decentralized platform, allowing participants to buy and sell storage services using its native electronic currency, which can also be exchanged for other currencies such as Bitcoin and USD. The company is headquartered in the United States and aims to provide a secure and efficient method for managing data storage needs.

SharkPay

Seed Round in 2016
SharkPay is an innovative, easy-to-use payment gateway that accepts over 20 different methods, including cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. SharkPay integrates into any website - easily and without a sweat. Conforming to the native design of each website, SharkPay is lightweight and fast, and secure - with 128-bit encryption alongside the SSL protection, making it one of the best gateways in terms of security.

String Labs

Seed Round in 2014
String Labs is a crypto venture studio, incubator and investor, headquartered in Palo Alto. It serves as an incubator and leading core contributor to cutting-edge blockchain protocols such as DFINITY (Ethereum-family decentralized cloud) and PHI project, among others. Its team include top cryptographers, distributed computing scientists and economists. It partners closely with leading organizations such as BCG Dvolution on enterprise blockchain projects and provides infrastructure support.

500.com

Convertible Note in 2013
BIT Mining Limited is a cryptocurrency mining enterprise that acquires cryptocurrency mining machines to mine for both Bitcoin and Ethereum. The company was originally an online sports lottery service provider that aggregates and processes lottery purchase orders. It derives nearly all of its revenue from service fees paid by local sports lottery administration centers for the purchase orders of sports lottery products directed to such centers. BIT Mining Limited was founded in October 2001 in Shenzhen as 500wan.com Ltd., with a registered capital of RMB 50 million. The company secured venture capital investments of several million U.S. dollars from IDG Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, and SIG Capital in September 2007. It changed its name to 500.com in October 2013 and went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol WBAI on November 22, 2013.