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 PaaS

Vanta

Series B in 2022
Vanta is security-in-a-box for technology companies, covering everything from laptops to infrastructure, and using a suite of simple, effective, and easy-to-deploy tools.

Stairwell

Series A in 2021
Stairwell, Inc. develops Software as a service (SaaS) based cybersecurity solutions. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Pingxin Technology

Seed Round in 2021
Pingxin Technology is an Enterprise services Platform.

Silk

Series B in 2021
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Vanta

Series A in 2021
Vanta is security-in-a-box for technology companies, covering everything from laptops to infrastructure, and using a suite of simple, effective, and easy-to-deploy tools.

Yunxuetang

Series E in 2021
Jiangsu cloud school network Technology Co., Ltd. was established in December 2011. As a comprehensive training platform for enterprise training, cloud school will be the leading Internet technology and personnel training concept applied to the enterprise personnel training and development, and effectively help corporate customers to enhance the value of talent, help enterprises succeed. The BaaS model, which is the development of the enterprise's talent development business, provides the professional enterprise university's overall solution through the "software platform, course service, course creation tool, operation service" and other dimensions. Cloud school music advocate "a business is a university" concept, is the cloud school BaaS business model landing on behalf of the product.

Stairwell

Seed Round in 2020
Stairwell, Inc. develops Software as a service (SaaS) based cybersecurity solutions. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Alkira

Series B in 2020
Alkira, Inc. is a provider of a network cloud platform that enables businesses to establish multi-cloud network connectivity quickly and efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Alkira offers a pay-as-you-go service that allows customers to connect their local systems and cloud workloads to its Cloud Exchange Points (CXP). The platform supports on-demand activation of security and other services, which can automatically scale based on usage. Alkira's Network Cloud integrates network and security services, provides comprehensive operational visibility, and features advanced controls for governance. Users can easily design their network across various users, sites, and clouds using an intuitive digital canvas, enabling rapid provisioning and deployment. Alkira's solutions are utilized by Fortune 100 companies, prominent system integrators, and managed service providers, marking its significant presence in the network-as-a-service sector.

Vara

Pre Seed Round in 2020
VARA provides SaaS solutions to businesses in Southeast Asia.

Alkira

Series A in 2020
Alkira, Inc. is a provider of a network cloud platform that enables businesses to establish multi-cloud network connectivity quickly and efficiently. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Alkira offers a pay-as-you-go service that allows customers to connect their local systems and cloud workloads to its Cloud Exchange Points (CXP). The platform supports on-demand activation of security and other services, which can automatically scale based on usage. Alkira's Network Cloud integrates network and security services, provides comprehensive operational visibility, and features advanced controls for governance. Users can easily design their network across various users, sites, and clouds using an intuitive digital canvas, enabling rapid provisioning and deployment. Alkira's solutions are utilized by Fortune 100 companies, prominent system integrators, and managed service providers, marking its significant presence in the network-as-a-service sector.

Creams

Series C in 2020
Creams is a SaaS building asset management platform.

Silk

Corporate Round in 2018
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Druva

Series F in 2017
Druva™ delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.

CloudCare

Series C in 2017
Founded in 2013, CloudCare's services include consulting, project design, system implementation, application migration, system management, mixed cloud management and data center construction.

Silk

Series F in 2017
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Druva

Series E in 2016
Druva™ delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.

Springpath

Venture Round in 2015
Springpath launches the industry’s first software-defined data platform that addresses virtualized, compute as well as emerging container environments. Based on the patent-pending Hardware Agnostic Log-structure Objects (HALO) architecture, the Springpath Data Platform is built from the ground up to deliver elastic scaling, simple autonomous management, and a complete enterprise-grade feature set, while running on standard servers—empowering enterprises of all sizes to achieve an Independent IT Infrastructure. Data centers benefit from silo-free environments and enable businesses to stay agile and meet market demands.

Silk

Series E in 2015
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Ravello Systems

Series C in 2015
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions that allow enterprises to develop, test, and deploy multi-VM applications across various cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers services such as virtual training for complex application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for development and testing, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demonstrations and proof of concepts. As the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables users to encapsulate their applications, facilitating operation on-premise or across any cloud without requiring modifications. This capability supports a true hybrid cloud implementation. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ravello Systems operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and is supported by prominent venture capital firms.

Silk

Series E in 2014
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Altiscale

Series B in 2014
Altiscale, Inc. provides purpose-built cloud services to run Apache Hadoop dial tone operations. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of September 27, 2016, Altiscale Inc operates as a subsidiary of SAP SE.

Druva

Series D in 2014
Druva™ delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.

CloudCare

Series A in 2014
Founded in 2013, CloudCare's services include consulting, project design, system implementation, application migration, system management, mixed cloud management and data center construction.

Druva

Series C in 2013
Druva™ delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.

Calm.io

Series A in 2013
Calm.io is building a new platform for automating DevOps in the age of Containers, Clouds and Microservices. With Calm, you can effortlessly deploy, manage and maintain distributed applications in private and public cloud environments. Supports Docker, VMs or binaries. Across any cloud or bare metal servers. Calm.io is funded by Sequoia Capital with offices in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Singapore.

Altiscale

Series A in 2013
Altiscale, Inc. provides purpose-built cloud services to run Apache Hadoop dial tone operations. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Palo Alto, California. As of September 27, 2016, Altiscale Inc operates as a subsidiary of SAP SE.

VisOps Inc.

Series A in 2013
Cloud Computing SaaS Start-up focused on help the users to create, provision, manage and monitor full application stack on top of AWS.

Ravello Systems

Series B in 2012
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions that allow enterprises to develop, test, and deploy multi-VM applications across various cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers services such as virtual training for complex application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for development and testing, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demonstrations and proof of concepts. As the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables users to encapsulate their applications, facilitating operation on-premise or across any cloud without requiring modifications. This capability supports a true hybrid cloud implementation. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ravello Systems operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and is supported by prominent venture capital firms.

Silk

Series D in 2012
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Springpath

Series A in 2012
Springpath launches the industry’s first software-defined data platform that addresses virtualized, compute as well as emerging container environments. Based on the patent-pending Hardware Agnostic Log-structure Objects (HALO) architecture, the Springpath Data Platform is built from the ground up to deliver elastic scaling, simple autonomous management, and a complete enterprise-grade feature set, while running on standard servers—empowering enterprises of all sizes to achieve an Independent IT Infrastructure. Data centers benefit from silo-free environments and enable businesses to stay agile and meet market demands.

Ravello Systems

Series A in 2011
Ravello Systems Inc. specializes in cloud-based virtualization software solutions that allow enterprises to develop, test, and deploy multi-VM applications across various cloud environments, including AWS and Google Cloud. The company offers services such as virtual training for complex application environments, on-demand OpenStack labs for development and testing, and VMware ESXi lab environments for demonstrations and proof of concepts. As the first provider of a Cloud Application Hypervisor, Ravello enables users to encapsulate their applications, facilitating operation on-premise or across any cloud without requiring modifications. This capability supports a true hybrid cloud implementation. Founded in 2011 and based in Palo Alto, California, Ravello Systems operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation and is supported by prominent venture capital firms.

Druva

Series B in 2011
Druva™ delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.

Piazza

Seed Round in 2011
Piazza Technologies, Inc. develops and operates an online collaboration and social learning network platform for students and teachers to communicate about problems in real time. It connects students, TAs, and professors. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Palo Alto, California.

Silk

Series C in 2011
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

Druva

Series A in 2010
Druva™ delivers data protection and management for the cloud era. Druva Cloud Platform is built on AWS and offered as-a-Service; delivering globally accessible, infinitely scalable and completely autonomous enterprise data resiliency. Customers drive down costs by up to 50 percent by freeing themselves from the burden of unnecessary hardware, capacity planning, and software management. Druva’s patented cloud architecture transforms backup data into an asset, making it more open and accessible so customers can streamline governance, improve cyber resiliency, and gain critical insights to uncover opportunities and expedite decision making.

Silk

Series A in 2008
Silk's Cloud Data Platform enhances cloud efficiency by optimizing performance and reducing costs for organizations. It allows businesses to achieve up to ten times the performance from their existing cloud data while simultaneously decreasing expenditures by 30%. The platform integrates seamlessly between the application stack and cloud infrastructure, ensuring that operations run more effectively without requiring any changes to existing systems. Key features include real-time data reduction, thin provisioning, and continuous resource optimization, which collectively ensure that cloud spending aligns with actual data requirements at all times. This innovative approach enables organizations to maximize their cloud capabilities while minimizing unnecessary costs.

AccessLan Communications

Venture Round in 2001
AccessLan, the Silicon Valley pioneer of PacketLoop, is a leading provider of business-focused and carrier-class access equipment for Integrated Communications Providers (ICPs). PacketLoop delivers the next generation of packet-based, local loop solutions, providing variable rate, multi-service intelligent infrastructure with Internet Scaling Architecture (ISA) enabling the industry’s first Quality-of-Service (QoS) for Internet Protocol (IP) management. It is ideally suited to delivery of packet-based services including: Voice-over-DSL (VoDSL), Internet access; Frame Relay; Virtual Private Network (VPN) and application hosting such as, streaming content and differentiated access services.

Plumtree Software

Venture Round in 2000
Plumtree Software specializes in developing and marketing software products designed for the deployment of web applications. The company's flagship offering, the Enterprise Web Suite, encompasses a range of technologies, including portal, content management, collaboration, integration, and search functionalities. The Corporate Portal serves as a foundational framework for applications, fostering virtual community workspaces and integrating them into a unified web environment. Additionally, the Collaboration Server enhances teamwork by enabling project management, document sharing, and community discussions, while the Content Server facilitates the publication and management of web content. Plumtree's Search Server indexes diverse content, making it easily searchable, and the Studio Server provides tools for non-coders to create application components. The company also offers integration technologies that connect its portal to enterprise systems and provides various development, administration, deployment, and support services. Plumtree Software markets its products through a direct sales force and various partners across multiple regions, including North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in San Francisco, Plumtree Software operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation.

AccessLan Communications

Venture Round in 2000
AccessLan, the Silicon Valley pioneer of PacketLoop, is a leading provider of business-focused and carrier-class access equipment for Integrated Communications Providers (ICPs). PacketLoop delivers the next generation of packet-based, local loop solutions, providing variable rate, multi-service intelligent infrastructure with Internet Scaling Architecture (ISA) enabling the industry’s first Quality-of-Service (QoS) for Internet Protocol (IP) management. It is ideally suited to delivery of packet-based services including: Voice-over-DSL (VoDSL), Internet access; Frame Relay; Virtual Private Network (VPN) and application hosting such as, streaming content and differentiated access services.

Rackspace

Venture Round in 2000
Rackspace US, Inc. is a managed cloud computing services provider based in San Antonio, Texas, founded in 1998. The company specializes in offering a range of services, including managed hosting, application hosting, database management, and e-commerce hosting, among others. It provides hybrid cloud-based solutions that allow businesses to operate their workloads in both public and private clouds. Rackspace leverages technologies from industry leaders such as OpenStack, Microsoft, and VMware, and is known for its exceptional customer support, branded as Fanatical Support. With a diverse client base that includes over 300,000 customers worldwide, Rackspace serves various industries, including finance, healthcare, and education. The company is recognized for its commitment to service excellence and has received accolades for its workplace environment.