Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQ's total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.
This 2007 memo imagined the potential for Natera (then called GSN), starting with the IVF category. Almost 18 years later, they’ve achieved what they set out to, innovating to improve health outcomes across prenatal care, oncology and organ transplants.
When your scale of ambition is vast, the path to realizing your vision is often circuitous.
It’s been inspiring to partner with Matthew Rabinowitz, Steve Chapman and the team as they’ve overcome obstacles and advanced the bioinformatics field to improve health for millions.
A devastating family loss sent Matthew Rabinowitz on a mission to transform prenatal health, though he had no background in biology.
Follow Natera's journey from startup to biotech leader, as they defied skeptics to revolutionize prenatal screening, oncology and more.
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Was grateful (if mildly terrified) to have the opportunity to speak at Slush yesterday about the Arc Product Market Fit framework with my partner in crime Zefi H.. It was energizing to see what resonated with founders in real-time, from phone cameras snapping to great questions at the Q&A. Thank you Slush for having us!
Read more about the framework here: https://lnkd.in/gE_eVuPg
Congratulations to Ishan Mukherjee, Avanika N., Diogo Ribeiro, Shriram Sridharan, and the entire Rox team on the launch! We at Sequoia Capital are thrilled to be working with you!
As sales tools proliferate, enterprise teams are spending countless hours manually gathering intelligence and managing workflows across disconnected systems. But now Rox is using GTM and AI expertise to build them a single source of truth.
Over 35 of the best-performing enterprise sales teams have adopted Rox already, and the product is now in public beta.
We're extremely excited to introduce Proxie, our first cobot, to the world!
Proxie is designed to handle today's material movement tasks, moving carts, boxes, and totes, while seamlessly working alongside humans in logistics, manufacturing, healthcare and ultimately every sector.
Highlighting some of the novel design elements:
Embodied Empathy: Trustworthy, human-like interactions through Proxie’s friendly eyes and smooth, intuitive movements.
Glide 360 Effortless, intuitive, and smooth swerve drive architecture ensures Proxie navigates complex environments with ease.
Scout Sense: With lidar and visual object recognition, Proxie navigates and adapts dynamically, identifying obstacles and collaborating effortlessly in complex spaces.
Flex Grasp: From grabbing cart handles to loading totes, Proxie’s adaptable gripper technology simplifies handling, with hardware evolving in sync with AI advances.
Future-Forward AI: GPU-accelerated AI architecture ensures Proxie stays ahead with the highest intelligence available today, ready to scale with advancing tech.
Check out the video. Then reach out to learn more from our team today!
Last week Decart introduced Oasis, the world's first interactive real-time video model – a video game entirely generated by AI – and went instantly viral.
But if you ask founder Dean Leitersdorf that’s not what’s interesting.
Oasis is just the first step toward the Decart team’s goal of creating a new wave of interactive media experiences that will touch every single person on the planet.
Hear more on Dean's vision for a magic mirror and more in this week's must-listen episode of Training Data w/ Shaun MaguireSequoia Capital.
It’s easy to get hung up on titles, worrying about how a move might look to the outside world or how it could impact your path to ‘the top.’ But in today’s world, success isn’t defined by titles or perceived seniority. What really matters is the compounding effect of your career choices on your learning, growth, and network. Each step should amplify your impact and open new doors. Ultimately, we’re all here to build careers with purpose - impact over status.
Should you take a more junior title at a better company? 👩💻
Sequoia Capital's VP of talent Zoe Jervier Hewitt shares her thoughts on this dilemma.
On the surface, it might feel like you’re taking a step back, but the answer depends on your long-term goals, the company’s reputation and how you define ‘progress’ in your career.
Hewitt's personal view is that the benefits outweigh the downsides when joining a breakout company. Here’s why:
🔸 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝘂𝘀 — Focusing on impact will drive your career further than any title ever could
🔸 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 — startups often promote people quickly and grant significant responsibility early on. The reverse of the ‘Peter Principle’ can apply here: instead of being hindered by a lack of skills employees are often challenged to adapt fast, resulting in success.
🔸 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 — There’s a reason why “ex-[company]” is a badge of honour: a prestigious alumni network signals rigorous vetting and training, which reflects positively on your own abilities and background.
Read on for more pointers in this week's Ask Zoe article: https://lnkd.in/etf2ihpt
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Software has been eating the world, and open source is eating software! Two years ago, we created the Sequoia Capital Open Source Fellowship, and today, we are announcing the 2024 fellows: #vLLM and Chatbot Arena!
Congratulations and welcome to Zhuohan Li, Woosuk Kwon, and Simon Mo from vLLM, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, and the rest of the Chatbot Arena team!'
By some estimates, open source accounts for up to 95% of any codebase, yet how open source maintainers make a living is very much still work in progress.
Some open-source projects naturally lead to companies, and @sequoia
has had the good fortune to partner with the open-source creators behind Confluent, Temporal Technologies and MongoDB. But not every impactful open source project has an obvious biz model. That's why we created the Sequoia Capital Open Source Fellowship.
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