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 Media

Youhua Technology

Series B in 2018
Shanghai based Media & Entertainment company.

TCHUG

Angel Round in 2018
TCHUG is a Media & Entertainment company.

Tikin Media

Series A in 2018
Tikin Media is a forward-looking advertising company that innovates building elevator media. The shareholders are composed of the world's top 500 and well-known media groups. They were successively invested by Baidu Venture Capital, Sequoia China and IDG within one year. Since its inception, the company has positioned itself to be a “high-end commercial building effect media operator”. The company's self-developed and possessed intellectual property elevator projection equipment is a new media form that subverts existing planar communication media, realizes mobile interconnection, and has programmatic ordering and big data analysis functions.

Laolushitang

Seed Round in 2018
Laolushitang is a Media & Entertainment Start Up based in Beijing.

Dujiao Show

Series A in 2018
A Media & Entertainment Company based in Beijing,China.

Wanmingyang Media

Series A in 2017
Wanmingyang Media organizes and video streams kickboxing events in China.

3C Media

Series B in 2014
Beijing 3C Media Creative International Culture Media Co., Ltd. produces and provides TV programmes in China and internationally. It offers overseas TV formats introducing, original TV shows creating, TV programme distribution and production, TV formats rights broking, format localization, TV ideas developing, format research and development, format marketing, advertisement marketing, artist agency, new media, and consultancy and training services. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Beijing, China.

Thinkingdom Media Group Ltd.

Venture Round in 2013
Thinkingdom Media Group Ltd. engages in the planning, publication, and distribution of books.

PopularMedia

Series C in 2008
PopularMedia, Inc. provides social media marketing services. The company's products include Influencer Ads, a platform that creates, maintains, and reinforces connections between consumers, creating shared experiences around the content, brand or offer with their network of friends, relatives, and colleagues; SocialNotes that delivers instant social interactivity on any Web page; and Importer, which facilitates visitors to the site and import their existing Web-based address books, such as Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, MSN, and Hotmail. It serves advertisers, Website marketers, and publishers. PopularMedia has a strategic partnership with Contagion. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 30, 2009, PopularMedia, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc.

Osen

Series A in 2007
Osen Media is a professional railway media that focuses on channel media operations. Its primary focus is advertising, and it owns three magazines, Lvban, Baolin and Lvbao, which are targeted at high-speed railway passengers as well as airline passengers. On February 28, 2011, Osen Media was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

CTS Media

Series B in 2007
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

PopularMedia

Series B in 2007
PopularMedia, Inc. provides social media marketing services. The company's products include Influencer Ads, a platform that creates, maintains, and reinforces connections between consumers, creating shared experiences around the content, brand or offer with their network of friends, relatives, and colleagues; SocialNotes that delivers instant social interactivity on any Web page; and Importer, which facilitates visitors to the site and import their existing Web-based address books, such as Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, MSN, and Hotmail. It serves advertisers, Website marketers, and publishers. PopularMedia has a strategic partnership with Contagion. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 30, 2009, PopularMedia, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc.

CTS Media

Series A in 2006
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

Celles

Venture Round in 2006
Celles New Media (北京盛思新媒广告有限公司) is an advertising platform and provider of media integrated marketing services for global advertising clients for placing advertisements on the wireless internet media. It provides wireless internet advertisement services for over a thousand clients including HP, Nokia, JNJ, Microsoft, and more. Celles New Media has professional wireless internet media resources and wireless advertisement operation experience accumulated throughout the years. It has established long-term corperate relationship with over ten thousand WAP sites like Sina, Souhu, Tecent, Kongzhong, 3g.cn, and more. Celles New Media was founded in 2005.

PopularMedia

Series A in 2006
PopularMedia, Inc. provides social media marketing services. The company's products include Influencer Ads, a platform that creates, maintains, and reinforces connections between consumers, creating shared experiences around the content, brand or offer with their network of friends, relatives, and colleagues; SocialNotes that delivers instant social interactivity on any Web page; and Importer, which facilitates visitors to the site and import their existing Web-based address books, such as Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL, MSN, and Hotmail. It serves advertisers, Website marketers, and publishers. PopularMedia has a strategic partnership with Contagion. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in San Francisco, California. As of June 30, 2009, PopularMedia, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of StrongMail Systems, Inc.

CTS Media

Series A in 2006
CTS Media (Click To See Media) is a Sequoia-backed instream online video advertising network. It serves ads at the beginning, middle or end of any video programming. As of January 2008 the company has over 100 partner video publishers and remains the largest ad provider in China.

Marketwired

Series D in 2003
Marketwired is a social communications company that provides solutions for global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Its solutions are catered to everyone, from Fortune 500 enterprises to start-ups. Marketwired plays a critical role in shaping the everyday conversations that happen in newsrooms, corporate boardrooms, and social networks around the world, helping communicators move markets, change public opinion, and affect consumer behavior. Marketwired is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of investments under management. Marketwired was founded in 1983 by [Nick Koudas](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dr-nick-koudas) and [Michael Terpin](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-terpin-2). It is headquartered in Toronto, O.N.

PartnerGate

Venture Round in 2002
Internet Wire, an Internet-based distributor of direct company news and online business communications materials.

Marketwired

Venture Round in 2001
Marketwired is a social communications company that provides solutions for global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Its solutions are catered to everyone, from Fortune 500 enterprises to start-ups. Marketwired plays a critical role in shaping the everyday conversations that happen in newsrooms, corporate boardrooms, and social networks around the world, helping communicators move markets, change public opinion, and affect consumer behavior. Marketwired is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of investments under management. Marketwired was founded in 1983 by [Nick Koudas](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dr-nick-koudas) and [Michael Terpin](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-terpin-2). It is headquartered in Toronto, O.N.

PartnerGate

Series A in 2000
Internet Wire, an Internet-based distributor of direct company news and online business communications materials.

MyPrimeTime Inc.

Venture Round in 2000
MyPrimeTime, Inc. operates as a media company that creates and distributes content through print, broadcast television, radio, Internet, and wireless media. It offers television and radio programming, cross-media sponsorships, direct marketing through email, and e-commerce solutions. The company also operates a community of adults seeking the best way to navigate life’s major events; and aggregates authors, speakers, consultants, and talent of all kinds who empower people to lead their lives. MyPrimeTime, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Marketwired

Series A in 1990
Marketwired is a social communications company that provides solutions for global press release distribution, industry-leading social media monitoring and analytics, and a fully integrated marketing communications platform for content creation, optimization, distribution, and measurement. Its solutions are catered to everyone, from Fortune 500 enterprises to start-ups. Marketwired plays a critical role in shaping the everyday conversations that happen in newsrooms, corporate boardrooms, and social networks around the world, helping communicators move markets, change public opinion, and affect consumer behavior. Marketwired is majority-owned by OMERS Private Equity, which manages the private equity activities of OMERS Administration Corporation and today has 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of investments under management. Marketwired was founded in 1983 by [Nick Koudas](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/dr-nick-koudas) and [Michael Terpin](https://www.crunchbase.com/person/michael-terpin-2). It is headquartered in Toronto, O.N.