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Oct 19

pls stay tuned for our generative cheese landscape, coming out soon.

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Sequoia Capital

Oct 19

Replying to @pitdesi

We’ve long partnered with outlier founders in the cheese and bread space.

Many private companies are seeing the market and wondering what it means. Here are some thoughts on how to navigate this. Anything useful is based on the experiences of my teammates at Sequoia and the incredible founders who have survived/thrived in all markets:

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🚨 thrilled to announce that we

creatingvalue.substack.com

are leading

@clipboardhealth

’s series c! we believe this is just the beginning of a world where healthcare workers can decide when, where, and for whom they work 🏥

Clipboard Health Announces $80 Million in Funding at a $1.3 Billion Valuation

Six years ago, I started Clipboard Health with the idea of helping people move up the socio-economic ladder. I walked that path with my parents when I was young, as an immigrant building a new life...

🙌🏽 major congrats to

and

on the awesome Series C!

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Kenrick Cai

@kenrickcai

Mar 17

New: Cresta, which makes AI for call centers, is now worth $1.6B after a Tiger Global-led round. I spoke to CEO Zayd Enam on why he thinks a Twitter thread that called Stripe a tech "mob boss" is not so wild—and how he's trying to replicate the approach: forbes.com/sites/kenrickc

Demanding and Supportive | RKG

Feb 10

LFG SALT!!! 🧂🧂🧂 Congrats to Roey, Michael, and the whole team! And welcome aboard

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We are delighted to announce our $140M Series D round led by @CapitalG - bolstering our leadership in API security with a $1.4B valuation!

Learn more

ow.ly/pIMz50HRG0v #apisecurity #fundingnews #CapitalGfamily #seriesd

The best leaders are (both) demanding and supportive. (As a bonus, I would bet this is the only thing you'll read today that talks about Mike Moritz, my parents, and Game of Thrones)

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Thank you

for this absolutely wonderful piece of internet history. 200 ETH is a small price for what it represents. It will be a centerpiece of my collection. Let the crypto evolution bloom! #NFTs #NFT opensea.io/assets/0x97e57

🚨 Excited to announce

's latest investment in Latin America,

@fintual

! What Charles Schwab did ~half a century ago in the US, we believe Fintual is doing today in Spanish LatAm

@sonyatweetybird

and I are thrilled to partner! 🙌🏽

Fintual: The Future of Consumer Investing in Spanish Latin America

Sonya Huang and Kais Khimji on behalf of Team Sequoia

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Oct 26, 2021

the 10 year fund cycle has become obsolete introducing The Sequoia Fund 🌲

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Dan Primack

@danprimack

Oct 26, 2021

Scoop: Sequoia Capital just blew up the VC fund model axios.com/sequoia-capita

Sequoia-Backed Grafana Labs Reaches $3 Billion Valuation

Aug 24, 2021

🚨 I'm thrilled to announce that we

@Sequoia

are co-leading

@Grafana

's Series C w/ our friends at

@Coatue

! The cloud has led to an explosion of infra data—and

@Grafana

is the best way to monitor it. We're delighted to partner with

@nopzor

and

@torkelo

bloomberg.com

Software maker Grafana Labs has received a new investment that values the startup at $3 billion, a tenfold increase from two years ago.

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1/ Our mission

is to help the daring build legendary companies. Now more than ever, we see that opportunity in LatAm.

The Latin American Startup Opportunity

By Sonya Huang and Doug Leone

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Congrats to

and

, we

are thrilled to lead the Series E! 🔬

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Benchling

@benchling

Apr 14, 2021

We're thrilled to announce our Series E. It's an honor to accelerate R&D at more than 1,000 organizations around the globe. This funding will help us continue to deliver innovation across the life sciences to solve some of our world's greatest problems. forbes.com/sites/amyfeldm

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are ecstatic to be leading

@Cresta

's Series B! We're entering a golden age for conversational AI--and nothing supercharges conversations quite like Cresta ⚡️ Excited to partner with

@zaydenam

@timshi_ai

and the team on the journey ahead

Cresta: Supercharging Agents in Real Time

By Carl Eschenbach and Kais Khimji on behalf of Team Sequoia & Ben Horowitz on behalf of Andreessen Horowitz

Mar 18, 2021

🏎🌲

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Sequoia Capital

Mar 18, 2021

Founders & business leaders: On 3/5/20 we warned Sequoia companies to prepare for the impending COVID crisis. Today we sent this note to our founders and CEOs with advice for navigating the current climate and the coming recovery. We hope it's helpful. seq.vc/Now_Seize_It

Jan 17, 2021

have you considered spac-ing your middle school?

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where’s your boy Varys when you need him in 2021

Dec 29, 2020

flew home to vancouver for the holidays 🇨🇦 customs asked multiple covid exposure q’s + enforced 14 day quarantine (up to 750k fine) w/ daily check-ins via a (beautiful) app returned to 🇺🇸: literally not a single q about covid...got on the plane, landed and jumped in an uber 🤔

Dec 8, 2020

I could not be more excited to announce

@Sequoia

is leading Salt Security's Series B APIs have become the fundamental unit of software--and Salt is the market leading solution to secure them. Roey and Michael are special founders and we are thrilled to partner with them! 🧂

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Salt Security

@SaltSecurity

Dec 8, 2020

BIG news! @SaltSecurity raises $30M Series B round for its industry-first #APIsecurity platform , led by @sequoia with @carl_eschenbach joining our board. Buckle up, everyone - here we go! ow.ly/YMfF50CFERU #VC #apiprotection

Oct 23, 2020

1. static site -> send hardcoded excel model 2. dynamic site -> send hardcoded excel model; someone reqs change; make it and send back new hardcoded model 3. single page js app -> send actual excel model 4. jamstack -> send *google sheets* model with some hardcodes, some not

Sep 18, 2020

crazy how wfh has collapsed job switching costs for knowledge workers--no awkward goodbye party, no empty desk, no commute change you literally just open a different zoom link. that's it.

We Cannot Stay Silent About George Floyd | Patriot Act Digital...

Aug 27, 2020

big day for a young vc over here: just turned off auto-caps on my iphone

Happy #ImamatDay2020 to all in the #Ismaili community celebrating today! On behalf of the Government of Alberta, I congratulate His Highness the Aga Khan on 63 years of service to the cause of human dignity and freedom. alberta.ca/release.cfm?xI

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will mark #Juneteenth as a company holiday this year and every year. We will honor this day to learn and reflect on how we can be a part of the solution to racial injustice, and take personal actions to support civil rights organizations and Black-owned businesses.

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We can't stay silent anymore.

youtube.com

National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/nbfn-directoryKnow Your Rights Camp: https://www.knowyourrightscamp.com/Campaign Zero: h...

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Jun 3, 2020

😍👏🏽

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a16z

@a16z

Jun 3, 2020

Introducing the Talent x Opportunity Fund: a16z.com/2020/06/03/tal

“Sing Out, March On” at Harvard Commencement

Jun 2, 2020

powerful performance at the 2018 harvard commencement in front of

@repjohnlewis

--joshua campbell's msg rings louder than ever "now, I believe in the power of raising my voice and I believe in the power of making some noise" we need police policy reform.

youtube.com

Joshuah Campbell '16 and Harvard friends perform “Sing Out, March On”—a powerful tribute to John Lewis, Harvard's Commencement speaker.

As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, I’ve heard many ask how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change.

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my prayers and solidarity stand with the black community MLK said rioting is the language of the unheard. we have failed to hear. don’t just charge derek chauvin—charge ALL four cops. abolish qualified immunity ✊🏽

nytimes.com

Opinion | How the Supreme Court Lets Cops Get Away With Murder (Published 2020)

The courts protected police abuses for years before George Floyd’s death. It’s time to rethink “qualified immunity.”

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Paul Judge (PaulJudge.eth)

@pauljudge

May 27, 2020

The guy in this video runs a VC firm. If he thinks a group of African American males are out of place in the gym, imagine what happens when someone diverse shows up to his firm looking for investment. This is why diversity & inclusion are important in VC & investment community.

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nisa

@anisalrh

May 27, 2020

a group of young black entrepreneurs have owned a office building in uptown minneapolis for over a year& got racially profiled at the private gym today

smh

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May 27, 2020

pre-covid me: wdyt of my haircut? significant other: looks the same.. now me: wdyt of my haircut? significant other:

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May 14, 2020

evidence that innovation is seeing diminishing marginal returns: my strong conviction that, hands down, the best apple watch feature is its ability to ping my iphone when it’s a foot away from me

Opinion | Crashing Economy, Rising Stocks: What’s Going On? (Published 2020)

May 8, 2020

this feels correct: “Investors are buying stocks in part because they have nowhere else to go. In fact, there’s a sense in which stocks are strong precisely because the economy as a whole is so weak.”

nytimes.com

What’s bad for America is sometimes good for the market.

March 31, 2020 was my last day at

@cartainc

Carta. Partnering with

@henrysward

and building Carta over the last three years was the privilege of a lifetime. It may be the end of my time at Carta but for Carta this is only the End of the Beginning. originalcapital.com/secrets/carta-

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Mar 21, 2020

i think this is the most important chart to be tracking to understand COVID's trajectory by country--not cumulative confirmed cases h/t

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NEW: Friday 20 March update of our coronavirus mortality trajectories tracker • Italy had highest single-day death toll of any country today: 627 • UK still on steeper mortality curve than Italy, as Britain begins to lock down. Too late? Live version: ft.com/content/a26fbf

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Founders & business leaders: We sent this note to Sequoia founders/CEOs to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while dealing with the consequences of the coronavirus. We hope it's helpful to you during these turbulent times.

Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020

Here is a note that we sent to Sequoia founders and CEOs today to provide guidance on how to ensure the health of their business while…

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Action shot of

VCs trying to write the customary "congratulations" tweets while avoiding

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caution: content heavy 🙌🏽

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New 20VC Episode

Such a pleasure to do this one with @S27G_ @cartainc discussing: The opportunity investing between rounds. How to think about distribution vs product and more... thetwentyminutevc.com/sumeetgajri/

Insight Partners Acquires Armis at a $1.1 Billion Valuation

Jan 8, 2020

Congrats to Yevgeny, Nadir, everyone

@ArmisSecurity

, team Sequoia, and the Insight squad! V excited for all 🙌🏽🚀 I'll never forget the first time I met Yevgeny: he interrupted his own pitch to literally close a million dollar contract live--true story 😂

prnewswire.com

/PRNewswire/ -- Armis, the leader in enterprise IoT security, today announced that it has agreed to be acquired by Insight Partners (Insight), a global...

Dec 18, 2019

what if IDF Unit 8200 was a venture fund: Palo Alto Networks (23bn), Check Point (17bn), Wix (6bn), CyberArk (5bn), Imperva (acq. 2bn), Waze (acq. 1bn), Radware (1bn), NSO (1bn)...alumni unicorns alone have produced 56bn of EV 👀