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 Telecommunications

Telcare

Series C in 2014
Telcare wirelessly bridges the last mile between patients and physicians for the care of chronic illness using machine-2-machine cellular technology. The Company's first product in development is the TelCheck glucose meter, which automatically relays home glucose testing data to the physician or care manager and displays immediate clinical feedback and coaching on the screen of the meter. Telcare recently won the people's choice award at the 2009 CTIA show in San Diego, CA

Telcare

Series B in 2012
Telcare wirelessly bridges the last mile between patients and physicians for the care of chronic illness using machine-2-machine cellular technology. The Company's first product in development is the TelCheck glucose meter, which automatically relays home glucose testing data to the physician or care manager and displays immediate clinical feedback and coaching on the screen of the meter. Telcare recently won the people's choice award at the 2009 CTIA show in San Diego, CA

Hantele

Series B in 2010
Guangzhou Hantele Communication Co.,Ltd develops integrated mobile communication network solutions that focuses on mobile communication technology services and related products. It offers network planning optimization, network maintenance solutions, intelligent network optimization platform, data business analysis systems, signaling analysis and optimization software, soft and hard mining virtual system, and signal treasure systems. The company also provides daily network index optimization, network testing and evaluation, network planning services, and big data platform solutions. Guangzhou Hantele Communication Co.,Ltd was founded in 2006 and is based in Guangzhou, China.

Metaswitch Networks

Venture Round in 2008
Metaswitch Networks Ltd. specializes in providing commercial and open source communications software solutions, focusing on the migration of communications networks to next-generation architectures. The company offers a diverse range of products, including 5G core, protocol stacks, Clearwater core IMS, and various voice and messaging services such as VoLTE and SIP trunking. Its MaX by Metaswitch product family enables mobile network operators to deliver collaborative services to both businesses and consumers. Metaswitch serves network operators and suppliers globally, offering additional services like technical support, professional training, and market insights. Founded in 1981 and originally known as Data Connection Limited, Metaswitch is headquartered in Enfield, United Kingdom, with additional offices in major cities across the United States, Australia, Mexico, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The company's technologies are trusted by numerous network operators and are licensed by leading communications equipment manufacturers worldwide.

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.

GotoTel

Series A in 2006
GotoTel is a Chinese company focused on mobile informational products and services. It has focused on the integration of wired internet and wireless internet since its establishment. Through its cooperative relationship with China Mobile, GotoTel launched a phone search service in August 2004. Now, with two hundred million users of China Mobile, it has become the phone search service provider with the widest coverage of international users. Beijing GotoTel Information Technology was jointly founded by Mr. Liao Jieyuan and a group of experts of the voice industry in China in July 2003. It owns 8 branches in China and has a registered capital of 10 million.

Celion Networks

Series C in 2003
Celion Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets enterprise optical networking products. The company markets an enterprise-class solution that enables transport of data over distance. It provides customer solutions for network design and dark fiber acquisition, hardware installation, network management, and long-term maintenance.

Santera Systems

Series D in 2003
Santera Systems offers a carrier-class next-generation switch with both trunk and line functionality, enabling true circuit to packet migration. In its core applications of enhanced voice switching, integrated voice and data switching, and voice over broadband, Santera delivers significant capital and operating cost efficiencies of 50 to 70 percent.

Brecis Communications

Series C in 2003
BRECIS Communications, a communications company focused on leading-edge, broadband multi-service network processor architectures.

Equipe Communications

Series C in 2002
Equipe Communications designs, develops, and markets asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) products to telecom carriers and service providers. The company's products assist local exchange carriers (ILECs) and interexchange carriers (IXCs) in transition from ATM architecture to IP/MPLS. The company also offers network management design, engineering, furnishing and installation, lifecycle tools, and rapid deployment services. Equipe Communications was founded in 1999 and is based in Acton, Massachusetts.

PartnerGate

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

NightFire Software

Series D in 2002
NightFire Software offers the first packaged order management software to automate the telecommunications service supply chain. By simplifying the interaction between retailers and wholesalers of telecommunications services, NightFire's products enable telecommunications service providers to deliver services quickly and cost-effectively to the newly deregulated telecommunications market, estimated to be $160 billion in 1998. The NightFire flagship product, NetServ Express automates the entire ordering process for competitive service providers, ensuring the highest level of service at the lowest cost and reducing the management burden on incumbent providers.

Velio Communications

Series C in 2001
Velio Communications, Inc. designs and manufactures high-bandwidth interconnecting semiconductors for integrated telecommunication systems.

Celion Networks

Series B in 2001
Celion Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets enterprise optical networking products. The company markets an enterprise-class solution that enables transport of data over distance. It provides customer solutions for network design and dark fiber acquisition, hardware installation, network management, and long-term maintenance.

Brecis Communications

Series B in 2001
BRECIS Communications, a communications company focused on leading-edge, broadband multi-service network processor architectures.

VxTel

Venture Round in 2000
VxTel specializes in providing silicon solutions designed for next-generation carrier networks. Founded in 1999 and based in Fremont, California, the company develops products that utilize a distinct signal-processing architecture tailored for voice, data, telecommunications, and multimedia applications. VxTel's technology is integral to carrier-class switches, facilitating the growth and adoption of packet-based networks for voice and advanced services. The company's primary focus is on supporting high-density voice-over-packet systems, capable of managing hundreds of thousands of channels across various voice processing applications.

Celion Networks

Series A in 2000
Celion Networks, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets enterprise optical networking products. The company markets an enterprise-class solution that enables transport of data over distance. It provides customer solutions for network design and dark fiber acquisition, hardware installation, network management, and long-term maintenance.

VxTel

Venture Round in 2000
VxTel specializes in providing silicon solutions designed for next-generation carrier networks. Founded in 1999 and based in Fremont, California, the company develops products that utilize a distinct signal-processing architecture tailored for voice, data, telecommunications, and multimedia applications. VxTel's technology is integral to carrier-class switches, facilitating the growth and adoption of packet-based networks for voice and advanced services. The company's primary focus is on supporting high-density voice-over-packet systems, capable of managing hundreds of thousands of channels across various voice processing applications.

Brecis Communications

Series A in 2000
BRECIS Communications, a communications company focused on leading-edge, broadband multi-service network processor architectures.

Santera Systems

Series B in 2000
Santera Systems offers a carrier-class next-generation switch with both trunk and line functionality, enabling true circuit to packet migration. In its core applications of enhanced voice switching, integrated voice and data switching, and voice over broadband, Santera delivers significant capital and operating cost efficiencies of 50 to 70 percent.

VINA Technologies

Series D in 2000
VINA Technologies was formed to develop, manufacture, market and service equipment for small and medium-sized businesses to connect to high-speed networks. Commercial Internet access is one of the most exciting growth areas in the economy today. VINA Technologies is poised to reap the benefits of that growth and pass them on to businesses, phone companies and Internet service providers. For businesses, faster Internet access is becoming more and more important. For phone companies and the guardians of the Internet, the explosive growth of the last few years has put increasing pressure on aging voice networks. Strategically placed in between the two is VINA Technologies.

NightFire Software

Series B in 2000
NightFire Software offers the first packaged order management software to automate the telecommunications service supply chain. By simplifying the interaction between retailers and wholesalers of telecommunications services, NightFire's products enable telecommunications service providers to deliver services quickly and cost-effectively to the newly deregulated telecommunications market, estimated to be $160 billion in 1998. The NightFire flagship product, NetServ Express automates the entire ordering process for competitive service providers, ensuring the highest level of service at the lowest cost and reducing the management burden on incumbent providers.

PartnerGate

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

Pentacom

Seed Round in 1999
Pentacom, Ltd. provides networking solutions and information technology services, and it specializes in networking components that connect optical networks to the Internet backbone. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Herzliya, Israel.

NightFire Software

Series A in 1998
NightFire Software offers the first packaged order management software to automate the telecommunications service supply chain. By simplifying the interaction between retailers and wholesalers of telecommunications services, NightFire's products enable telecommunications service providers to deliver services quickly and cost-effectively to the newly deregulated telecommunications market, estimated to be $160 billion in 1998. The NightFire flagship product, NetServ Express automates the entire ordering process for competitive service providers, ensuring the highest level of service at the lowest cost and reducing the management burden on incumbent providers.