Two exciting announcements for today!
A new publication in Nature Comms on our #DeepLearning algorithms for #Echocardiography
nature.com/articles/s4146
and a selection as one of the Top 50 Health Tech startups in South East Asia. What a month!
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It's so great to see a growing number of Surge #founders & their #startups @ #SequoiaPitStop -'s annual growth equity conference.
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Sequoia India taps international operators to help startups launch and expand overseas tcrn.ch/3RDqmX2 by
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Great to see 3 Surge companies in the 100 to Watch ✨
➡️ Bijak - Digitalizing Agri in India
➡️ - Making WhatsApp more efficient for B2C sales & more
➡️ - on a mission to transform how the world recruits
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Wonderful to see #Surge07 come together in person and kickoff their journey togther. Exciting to see what these founders will build 👊💪
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Welcoming Surge 07 to the #SurgeFam!! 
37 accomplished #founders across 15 startups leveraging tech to drive innovation in #India, #SoutheastAsia & the world!
We're blown away by the diversity of sectors & founders & the scale of their ambition
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37 accomplished #founders across 15 startups leveraging tech to drive innovation in #India, #SoutheastAsia & the world!
We're blown away by the diversity of sectors & founders & the scale of their ambition
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I've only been a mentor on for 2 weeks and I'm hooked. It allows me to help designers (outside of my network) immediately and directly. It's such a great way to give back
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We’re raising the ceiling and removing the floor on Surge. No longer $1-2M.
If you’re looking to raise up to $3M, we want to hear from you!
surgeahead.com/surge-extends-
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Hanging out with a friend, advisor 's in Singapore. Feeling good and feeling inspired through our conversation.
Pieter now owns a piece of our limited "Be more" merch - welcome to the club!
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Really happy to have been a part of the team who have built the incredible Test at Scale platform!
Check out their open-source repository if you want a 2x faster, intelligent test execution pipeline!
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Awesome to see this! raises their Series A to grow their product that helps PLG companies better convert. Congrats and team 💪👊
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Huge congrats , , & team! & put Indo on the startup ecosystem map & today GoTo is a tech powerhouse & public co. & team @sequoia_india are privileged to have been part of the journey from #IdeaToIPO! 1/
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Wonderful team that built a wonderful business. Grateful to have seen them grow, witness the company building, and watch in action on both companies
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Back in Jakarta after 2+ yrs .. for a v special occasion, to celebrate the GoTo IPO with Andre, William, Kevin, Pat, Nadiem, Melissa, Ajey & others
GoTo is now a $30B company. Insane privilege for me to serve on both Tokopedia & Gojek boards for most of the last ~7 yrs 
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‘We believe globalization of t/ workforce is 1 of t/ most exciting trends of t/ next decade & are thrilled to see facilitate that shift seamlessly for 100s of cos & 1000s of employees.’ Congrats Amritpal!🙌🏼
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#Surge06's Cooby is turning WhatsApp into a 'sales teams secret weapon' - bringing visibility into customer conversations w/ analytics, customer tracking & intelligence. Congrats @MrWenShaw @jocelinhoho & team @JoinCooby!
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Super, super psyched about this series!! Hope the stories of these amazing #FemaleFounders inspire more girls & women in India to aspire to become #startup #founders. Let’s #SparkTheFlame! Stay tuned!!
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Partner Content | She Builds unravels the powerful stories of female founders who have redefined what it is to be a woman & an entrepreneur in 21st century India.
Watch this space to see how they’re dreaming big & challenging norms.
#SheBuilds #SequoiaSpark #NatGeoIndia
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Wonderful news. The tenacity of the founders through highs & lows has been amazing & inspiring to witness from those early days. Congrats to Kelvin & Rey 🙏🙏🙏
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just got off a founder call w & others
founder: is it normal that many of you get on a call on sunday night?
me: as a founder, are you always willing to do what it takes for your startup? why do you think we wont do the same? @Sequoia_India
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Empowering non-IT users to build their own apps to automate expert processes using only ‘drag & drop’. A truly no-code platform, unlocks t/ ability for orgs to scale their digitisation & automation.
Congrats & James Han! 🙌🏼
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From helping farmers improve their incomes, to democratising access to high-quality education, to enhancing global internet and data security... Our 20 startups are charting ambitious new paths to build business of the future.
Meet #Surge06: bit.ly/32uh0J8
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Want to work at a #startup & supercharge your career?
Check out our jobs platform which has a list of 187 portfolio companies across India & SEA hiring for 5000+ roles!
⭐️APPLY - bit.ly/SequoiaStartup⭐️
#engineering #marketing #businessdevelopment #sales #uxdesign
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#Debrief2021
Investor of the Year: @Sequoia_India
- 250+ active investments
- 16 new unicorns in 2021; 26 in total
- 8 IPOs & exits
- Over 24 cos clocking $100 m revenues
takes stock of 2021 with &
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The best venture capitalists are great listeners. I remember in this meeting with founders at their apartment, Mike Moritz listened carefully and asked only few questions. Five days later led the pre -seed round!
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We penned down some thoughts on SaaS in Southeast Asia - based on years of actively investing in SaaS startups in the region. Some interesting announcements coming next month 👊
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SEA only has 3 SaaS unicorns & >20 SaaS startups at Series C & beyond. That’s about to change writes @P_Kemps, Anni Cai & Vanessa Khoo. We believe #SoutheastAsia's #SaaS sector is at an inflection point, with huge opportunity opening up from 3 key drivers. bit.ly/3lRjacg
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Amazing team and such a joy to work with, and see how they help companies globally build deeper levels of trust with their customers, thru instant & reliable communications built on WhatsApp. Onwards!
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Thrilled to deepen our partnership with @WATI_io, which helps SMBs in +50 countries engage more effectively w customers thru @WhatsApp. @abheek & @P_Kemps write about how @BiCaHo & @kenyeung128 are helping SMBs build connections - and trust - w customers.
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Clearly bullish on a decentralised web: In the second half of 2021, Sequoia Capital India made 19 investments in #web3 startups: Rajan Anandan vccircle.com/in-the-second- @Sequoia_India #HTLS2021
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Product Development vs Product Creation: The Age of Assemblers Is Here sequoiacap.com/india/build/pr via @sequoia_india
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We need to reframe the space we operate in, redefine what success means, dig deeper within to live and work with intentionality while being focused on what really matters for the long-term, writes . To subscribe to GV's newsletter, click 👇
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"The way you make money as an investor is when you have a non-consensus view and are right" -- overheard at the offsite
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Congrats @FreshworksInc on today's #IPO! @mrgirish built a global #SaaS powerhouse by attracting world class talent, unlocking potential & creating a product-first culture. @mobhat & @carl_eschenbach share insights for 
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Congrats on today's #IPO! built a global #SaaS powerhouse by attracting world class talent, unlocking potential & creating a product-first culture. & share insights for 🇮🇳 startups building for the world. sequoiacap.com/india/build/fr
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"Market & customer segments are not static & as a result, product cannot be static, so you constantly have different products for different market segments & have to prove PMF." chats with & on finding PMF .
Full chat👇
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Was fun doing this one with wonderful founders & . Thanks for organizing 🙏
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‘When you feel that sales in your co is like pushing a rock uphill, you likely don’t have PMF.’
@P_Kemps was in conversation w/ @AnnaLGong & @cbkrish while breaking down PMF from both an Enterprise & SMB lens @ @SaaStock APAC.
Watch the full talk: 
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there's maybe a few hundred people who can credibly claim to be able to code for quantum computers, and planning to change that at this article by explains it well :
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