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 SaaS

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.

Seaplane IO

Series A in 2022
Seaplane IO Inc. is a company that specializes in serverless cloud software systems tailored for modern enterprises. Founded in 2020 and based in Mountain View, California, Seaplane IO enables customers to deploy their functions across various environments, including both on-premises and cloud server deployments. The company's innovative solutions aim to streamline operations and enhance flexibility for businesses looking to leverage cloud technologies.

Last9

Series A in 2022
Last9 Inc operates an incident management platform focused on site reliability engineering (SRE) for distributed systems. Founded in 2020, the company is based in Pune, India, and aims to simplify the management of complex systems at scale. Its platform is designed to enhance the reliability of distributed systems by eliminating uncertainty in system performance. By providing tools for emergency responders and infrastructure engineers, Last9 enables the development of scalable and dependable software systems, thereby improving operational efficiency and resilience.

TUNGEE

Series B in 2021
Guangzhou Tungee Technology Co.,Ltd., a software as a service (SaaS) company, develops intelligent sales cloud platform. It provides leads mining, business opportunity engagement, customer relationship management, and order analysis for enterprises. The company offers Tungee intelligent sales cloud platform , outbound leads, inbound leads, engage, cloud-based call center, intelligent call, and CRM products. It also offers Tungee galaxy, prophecy, and discernment solutions. Guangzhou Tungee Technology Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Panyu, China.

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.

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.

Neeva

Series B in 2021
Neeva, Inc. develops and operates software as a service (SaaS) based an ad-free search engine that helps users to find online content. Its platform search for information on the web as well as personal files like emails and other documents. Neeva, Inc. was formerly known as Anamika Inc and changed its name to Neeva, Inc. in March 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California.

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.

TUNGEE

Series B in 2020
Guangzhou Tungee Technology Co.,Ltd., a software as a service (SaaS) company, develops intelligent sales cloud platform. It provides leads mining, business opportunity engagement, customer relationship management, and order analysis for enterprises. The company offers Tungee intelligent sales cloud platform , outbound leads, inbound leads, engage, cloud-based call center, intelligent call, and CRM products. It also offers Tungee galaxy, prophecy, and discernment solutions. Guangzhou Tungee Technology Co.,Ltd. was founded in 2016 and is based in Panyu, China.

Neeva

Series A in 2020
Neeva, Inc. develops and operates software as a service (SaaS) based an ad-free search engine that helps users to find online content. Its platform search for information on the web as well as personal files like emails and other documents. Neeva, Inc. was formerly known as Anamika Inc and changed its name to Neeva, Inc. in March 2019. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Mountain View, California.

Vara

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

Creams

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

Freshworks

Series H in 2019
Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life. Freshworks SaaS products provide a 360-degree view of the customer, are ready to go, easy to use, and offer quick return on investment. It was founded in 2010 and Headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

Quolum

Seed Round in 2019
Quolum, Inc. is a company that offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform designed to manage and optimize SaaS spending for enterprises. Founded in 2019 and based in Dublin, California, Quolum provides tools to capture and visualize SaaS expenditures and usage across various payment channels, including standard and shadow applications. The platform features automated alerts for changes in vendor performance, scorecards to track vendor engagement, and a secure contracts locker for managing SaaS vendor agreements. Additionally, Quolum Spend Management helps organizations discover SaaS applications, report on utilization, and identify potential savings. The platform also includes benchmarks for comparing spending across peers, departments, and workflows, facilitating informed decision-making in SaaS investments.
Shanghai Jushuitan Network Technology Co., Ltd. develops software as a service (SaaS) enterprise resource planning (ERP) application software solutions. The company's software provides Order management (OMS), warehouse management (WMS), supply chain management (SCM), distribution management (DRM) services for e-commerce platforms. The company also engages in the ownership of intellectual property rights. Shanghai Jushuitan Network Technology Co., Ltd. was established in 2014 and is based in Shanghai, China.

Borza

Angel Round in 2019
The first and only industry platform to provide a unified system of record for technology products, services, and solutions across vendors, providers, and consultants.

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.

Freshworks

Series G in 2018
Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life. Freshworks SaaS products provide a 360-degree view of the customer, are ready to go, easy to use, and offer quick return on investment. It was founded in 2010 and Headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

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.

Freshworks

Series F in 2016
Freshworks provides innovative customer engagement software for businesses of all sizes, making it easy for teams to acquire, close, and keep their customers for life. Freshworks SaaS products provide a 360-degree view of the customer, are ready to go, easy to use, and offer quick return on investment. It was founded in 2010 and Headquartered in San Mateo, USA.

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.

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.

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.

Reach Accountant

Series A in 2013
For the last 10 years, Reach has been involved in creating simple but powerful business applications on the cloud across the world Businesses. Backed by a strong management team and Sequoia Capital, they have been making slow but steady progress in their vision of empowering Indian businesses with world class business tools.

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.

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.

CloudShare

Venture Round in 2011
CloudShare enables on-premise solutions and SaaS applications to use the cloud unchanged. The company's virtual IT lab solutions for training, sales enablement, support, and sandboxing enable software vendors to increase productivity, agility, and reach. Founded in 2007, CloudShare is headquartered in San Francisco, 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.

CloudShare

Series B in 2009
CloudShare enables on-premise solutions and SaaS applications to use the cloud unchanged. The company's virtual IT lab solutions for training, sales enablement, support, and sandboxing enable software vendors to increase productivity, agility, and reach. Founded in 2007, CloudShare is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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.

Cast Iron

Series F in 2007
Cast Iron Systems, Inc. specializes in providing integration solutions for software as a service and cloud applications, catering primarily to large and midsize companies. The company offers the iA3000 application integration appliance, which facilitates network computing solutions. Additionally, Cast Iron provides preconfigured solutions designed to connect specific applications, along with packaged integration processes tailored for various integration scenarios. The company's offerings also include integration solutions specifically for SAP applications and Oracle applications and databases, enabling enterprises to streamline their application connectivity and enhance operational efficiency.

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.

Saba Software

Venture Round in 1999
Saba Software, Inc. provides cloud-based intelligent talent management solution for organizations to hire, develop, engage, and inspire people worldwide. It offers a set of people cloud applications, including recruiting, enterprise learning, talent management, and collaboration solutions to mobilize and engage people around new strategies and initiatives; align and connect people to the flow of business; and cultivate, capture, and share individual and collective knowhow. Its customer base includes organizations in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, and packaged goods sectors, as well as public sector organizations. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Dublin, California. As of October 2, 2020, Saba Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BestatDigital.

Sales.com

Venture Round in 1999
Sales.com a Web destination for sales professionals by sales professionals.

Saba Software

Venture Round in 1998
Saba Software, Inc. provides cloud-based intelligent talent management solution for organizations to hire, develop, engage, and inspire people worldwide. It offers a set of people cloud applications, including recruiting, enterprise learning, talent management, and collaboration solutions to mobilize and engage people around new strategies and initiatives; align and connect people to the flow of business; and cultivate, capture, and share individual and collective knowhow. Its customer base includes organizations in financial services, life sciences and healthcare, high tech, automotive and manufacturing, retail, energy and utilities, and packaged goods sectors, as well as public sector organizations. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Dublin, California. As of October 2, 2020, Saba Software, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of BestatDigital.