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 Mobile Advertising

Saas Labs

Series B in 2022
Marketing products to increase the visibility of your brand.

Attentive

Series D in 2020
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Attentive

Series C in 2020
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Attentive

Series C in 2020
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Attentive

Series B in 2019
Attentive Mobile, Inc. is a personalized mobile messaging platform that enables companies to effectively acquire, retain, and engage with their mobile audiences. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in New York, the company serves a diverse range of industries, including e-commerce, retail, food and beverage, travel, hospitality, entertainment, media, publishing, education, and non-profit sectors. By leveraging real-time behavioral data, Attentive automates the delivery of tailored text messages throughout the customer lifecycle, which includes product recommendations, special promotions, payment notifications, and real-time customer service. With over 2,000 clients, including well-known brands like Sephora and Urban Outfitters, Attentive has demonstrated significant effectiveness, achieving impressive metrics such as over 30% click-through rates and more than 25 times return on investment.

Moovit

Series D in 2018
Moovit is a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world's foremost transit application, facilitating urban mobility in over 2,700 cities globally. With more than 300 million users, it integrates data from public transit operators and user-generated insights to offer real-time information on routes and travel conditions. Users contribute their experiences, reporting on aspects such as bus congestion and cleanliness, which enriches the app's functionality. Moovit collects up to four billion anonymous data points daily, creating a comprehensive repository of transit data supported by a network of over 500,000 local contributors who help maintain accurate transit information. The application is accessible for free on iOS, Android, and the web, available in 44 languages across 86 countries.

Lechebang

Series B in 2017
Lechebang designs and develops a mobile app that provides automobile maintenance and after-sale services. The car 4S shop service network and car aftermarket business platform is designed for car owner. It provides a range of services, including 6.8 fold 4S shop car maintenance, refueling recharge, discount car wash, change batteries, and more.

Data.ai

Series E in 2016
Data.ai is a decision-making platform focused on the mobile app economy, providing analytics for app developers and publishers. The platform offers insights into both individual app performance and broader market trends, allowing businesses to gain a comprehensive understanding of their competitive landscape. Data.ai serves a wide range of clients, including major companies such as Electronic Arts, Google, and Microsoft, and has tracked over 83 billion downloads with more than $25 billion in gross revenues. The company offers a suite of products that includes app ranking, app store analytics, and market intelligence, catering to over 90 percent of the top 100 app publishers and more than 700,000 apps. Headquartered in San Francisco, Data.ai has a global presence with offices in several major cities worldwide and employs over 300 people. The company has received significant backing from various venture investors, having raised $94 million to date.

Moovit

Series C in 2015
Moovit is a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world's foremost transit application, facilitating urban mobility in over 2,700 cities globally. With more than 300 million users, it integrates data from public transit operators and user-generated insights to offer real-time information on routes and travel conditions. Users contribute their experiences, reporting on aspects such as bus congestion and cleanliness, which enriches the app's functionality. Moovit collects up to four billion anonymous data points daily, creating a comprehensive repository of transit data supported by a network of over 500,000 local contributors who help maintain accurate transit information. The application is accessible for free on iOS, Android, and the web, available in 44 languages across 86 countries.

Data.ai

Series D in 2015
Data.ai is a decision-making platform focused on the mobile app economy, providing analytics for app developers and publishers. The platform offers insights into both individual app performance and broader market trends, allowing businesses to gain a comprehensive understanding of their competitive landscape. Data.ai serves a wide range of clients, including major companies such as Electronic Arts, Google, and Microsoft, and has tracked over 83 billion downloads with more than $25 billion in gross revenues. The company offers a suite of products that includes app ranking, app store analytics, and market intelligence, catering to over 90 percent of the top 100 app publishers and more than 700,000 apps. Headquartered in San Francisco, Data.ai has a global presence with offices in several major cities worldwide and employs over 300 people. The company has received significant backing from various venture investors, having raised $94 million to date.

Leleda

Series A in 2014
Leleda is a mobile phone service platform.

Data.ai

Series D in 2014
Data.ai is a decision-making platform focused on the mobile app economy, providing analytics for app developers and publishers. The platform offers insights into both individual app performance and broader market trends, allowing businesses to gain a comprehensive understanding of their competitive landscape. Data.ai serves a wide range of clients, including major companies such as Electronic Arts, Google, and Microsoft, and has tracked over 83 billion downloads with more than $25 billion in gross revenues. The company offers a suite of products that includes app ranking, app store analytics, and market intelligence, catering to over 90 percent of the top 100 app publishers and more than 700,000 apps. Headquartered in San Francisco, Data.ai has a global presence with offices in several major cities worldwide and employs over 300 people. The company has received significant backing from various venture investors, having raised $94 million to date.

Moovit

Series B in 2013
Moovit is a leading Mobility as a Service (MaaS) provider and the world's foremost transit application, facilitating urban mobility in over 2,700 cities globally. With more than 300 million users, it integrates data from public transit operators and user-generated insights to offer real-time information on routes and travel conditions. Users contribute their experiences, reporting on aspects such as bus congestion and cleanliness, which enriches the app's functionality. Moovit collects up to four billion anonymous data points daily, creating a comprehensive repository of transit data supported by a network of over 500,000 local contributors who help maintain accurate transit information. The application is accessible for free on iOS, Android, and the web, available in 44 languages across 86 countries.

Shopular

Series A in 2013
Shopular, Inc. is a mobile application developer founded in 2011 and based in Redwood City, California. The company specializes in enhancing the shopping experience by providing users with personalized notifications for sales and coupons when they are in proximity to stores or malls. The Shopular app is available on both iPhone and Android platforms and has gained recognition as the highest-rated app in its category. It was also listed by Time Magazine as one of the 50 best iPhone apps in 2013. As of March 2016, Shopular operates as a subsidiary of Ebates, Inc.

Data.ai

Series C in 2013
Data.ai is a decision-making platform focused on the mobile app economy, providing analytics for app developers and publishers. The platform offers insights into both individual app performance and broader market trends, allowing businesses to gain a comprehensive understanding of their competitive landscape. Data.ai serves a wide range of clients, including major companies such as Electronic Arts, Google, and Microsoft, and has tracked over 83 billion downloads with more than $25 billion in gross revenues. The company offers a suite of products that includes app ranking, app store analytics, and market intelligence, catering to over 90 percent of the top 100 app publishers and more than 700,000 apps. Headquartered in San Francisco, Data.ai has a global presence with offices in several major cities worldwide and employs over 300 people. The company has received significant backing from various venture investors, having raised $94 million to date.

Clickatell

Series B in 2011
Clickatell Inc. specializes in mobile messaging and transaction services that facilitate communication and transactions between businesses and their customers via mobile devices. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company offers a range of solutions, including SMS messaging for alerts, marketing campaigns, and customer relationship management, as well as mobile transaction services like prepaid mobile top-ups. Clickatell's Mobile eXchange platform enables global message delivery, while its USSD-based banking products assist financial institutions in reducing foot traffic to branches. Additionally, the company provides Clickatell Secure, a multi-factor authentication suite for transaction protection, and Chat Desk, a digital contact center that enhances customer service through real-time chat support. With a diverse clientele that includes enterprises, government agencies, and application developers, Clickatell serves over 18,000 brands and businesses worldwide, making it a leader in the mobile communications sector.

Huoli

Series A in 2011
HuoLi focuses on the development and operation of client software for mobile phones. It also focuses on providing solutions for mobile internet users’ communication and other kinds of practical demands. The products are related to wireless internet fields such as business information, mobile, LBS, and mobile payment include Flight Manager, Hotel Manager, MaoPao, Pat, and Link the Screen.

Stoke

Series E in 2011
Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks.

IMImobile

Venture Round in 2009
IMImobile PLC is a provider of cloud communications software and solutions that help enterprises automate digital customer communications and enhance engagement. The company’s offerings include IMIbot.ai, a modular AI platform for automated conversational experiences; IMIchat, which consolidates various customer service channels; IMIcampaign, designed for multi-channel communication management; IMIconnect, an enterprise cloud communications platform; and MIsocial, which integrates audience content into live programming. Additionally, IMImobile offers IMInmx, a Platform-as-a-Service gateway for messaging, Textlocal for SMS services, and IMIdigital for mobile content deployment. The company serves a diverse range of industries, including telecoms, banking, healthcare, and retail, and operates globally with a presence in Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in London, IMImobile manages over 42 billion messages and 44 billion commerce transactions annually, employing over 1,100 staff across various international offices.

Stoke

Series D in 2009
Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks.

AdMob

Series C in 2008
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that helps app developers monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps with ads. It provides solutions for discovery, branding, and monetization on the mobile Web. Its mobile advertising and monetization solutions include mobile sites; Mobile Analytics solution, which helps mobile site owners to gain insight into their traffic and site usage to make data-driven decisions about their mobile business; and Mobile Metrics Report, which offers insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem.

SkyMobi

Series B in 2008
SkyMobi is a leading mobile application platform and mobile games publisher in China. The Company works with handset companies to pre-install its Maopao mobile application store on handsets and with content providers to provide users with applications and content titles. Users of its Maopao store can browse, download and enjoy a range of applications and content, such as single-player games, mobile music and books on various mobile handsets with different hardware and operating system configurations. The Company's mobile social network community in China, the Maopao Community, offers mobile social games, as well as applications and content with social network functions to its registered users. The Company is based in Hangzhou, China.

Silent Communication

Venture Round in 2007
Silent Communication provides a new face for mobile value added services. It offers mobile operators a new category of call management, messaging and visual voicemail solutions for mobile devices. Silent Communication was founded in 2004 and has headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel.

SkyMobi

Series A in 2007
SkyMobi is a leading mobile application platform and mobile games publisher in China. The Company works with handset companies to pre-install its Maopao mobile application store on handsets and with content providers to provide users with applications and content titles. Users of its Maopao store can browse, download and enjoy a range of applications and content, such as single-player games, mobile music and books on various mobile handsets with different hardware and operating system configurations. The Company's mobile social network community in China, the Maopao Community, offers mobile social games, as well as applications and content with social network functions to its registered users. The Company is based in Hangzhou, China.

AdMob

Series B in 2007
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that helps app developers monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps with ads. It provides solutions for discovery, branding, and monetization on the mobile Web. Its mobile advertising and monetization solutions include mobile sites; Mobile Analytics solution, which helps mobile site owners to gain insight into their traffic and site usage to make data-driven decisions about their mobile business; and Mobile Metrics Report, which offers insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem.

Stoke

Series C in 2007
Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks.

Clickatell

Series A in 2006
Clickatell Inc. specializes in mobile messaging and transaction services that facilitate communication and transactions between businesses and their customers via mobile devices. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Silicon Valley, the company offers a range of solutions, including SMS messaging for alerts, marketing campaigns, and customer relationship management, as well as mobile transaction services like prepaid mobile top-ups. Clickatell's Mobile eXchange platform enables global message delivery, while its USSD-based banking products assist financial institutions in reducing foot traffic to branches. Additionally, the company provides Clickatell Secure, a multi-factor authentication suite for transaction protection, and Chat Desk, a digital contact center that enhances customer service through real-time chat support. With a diverse clientele that includes enterprises, government agencies, and application developers, Clickatell serves over 18,000 brands and businesses worldwide, making it a leader in the mobile communications sector.

Waps.cn

Venture Round in 2006
WAPS is a Chinese mobile marketing service provider. It offers mobile internet-based advertisement and integrated marketing services for mobile developers and advertisers. WAPS is currently building the largest intelligent mobile advertisement network. It also provides a mobile internet marketing platform. WAPS was founded in 2005.

AdMob

Series A in 2006
AdMob is a mobile advertising network that helps app developers monetize and promote their mobile and tablet apps with ads. It provides solutions for discovery, branding, and monetization on the mobile Web. Its mobile advertising and monetization solutions include mobile sites; Mobile Analytics solution, which helps mobile site owners to gain insight into their traffic and site usage to make data-driven decisions about their mobile business; and Mobile Metrics Report, which offers insights into trends in the mobile ecosystem.

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.

Mauj Mobile

Venture Round in 2006
Mauj Mobile is a mobile media company specializing in premium content market places. Mauj manages marketplaces in two key verticals – entertainment and edutainment. In the entertainment vertical, Mauj operates Mobango, which is one of the largest independent appstore in the world with thousands of free apps, games and videos. In the edutainment vertical, Mauj operates Appystore.in (www.appystore.in) which is a marketplace for best apps, games, videos and worksheets for kids upto 6 years of age. Mauj Mobile has won several awards including European Red Herring and mBillionth Awards for Innovation.

Waps.cn

Series A in 2006
WAPS is a Chinese mobile marketing service provider. It offers mobile internet-based advertisement and integrated marketing services for mobile developers and advertisers. WAPS is currently building the largest intelligent mobile advertisement network. It also provides a mobile internet marketing platform. WAPS was founded in 2005.

Stoke

Series B in 2005
Stoke develops carrier-class mobile broadband gateways specifically engineered to enable mobile and converged network operators to maximize the economic returns of their 3G mobile networks.