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Shailendra J Singh
@singh_sequoia
VC ; love authentic founders & ppl; affinity for creative ideas; looking for start-ups built with heart; grateful for founder's trust
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'The digital family office for the world' is here! Meet
, which is on a mission to unlock sophisticated financial services leveraging technology for millions of ppl across the world.
Shoutout to & the team at Arta🤩.
Check them out⬇️
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Grateful for the opportunity to partner with and the incredible team, addressing a huge, unsolved problem:
The Digital Family Office
“because financial superpowers shouldn’t belong to just the ultra wealthy”
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Folks - I’m thrilled to introduce you all to @arta_finance
We started Arta because we believe financial superpowers shouldn’t belong to just the ultra-rich.
Learn more in our announcement 
artafinance.com/insider/introd
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Next 10 years are probably going to be the best years to build tech startups in India.
Capital availability. Digital Stacks. Talent pool. Support from regulators and government. Stability in economy. Consumer readiness for tech. UPI. Smartphones. 5G and many other stars aligned.
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It’s incredible that machines are closer than ever to becoming super human “creators” because of Generative AI … nice piece 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
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We are entering a new era of human-machine co-creation. If we allow ourselves to dream, then it’s easy to imagine a future where Generative AI is deeply embedded in how we work, create and play. 
Excited to share our musings on the space here:
sequoiacap.com/article/genera
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Excited to announce that Procol has raised ₹51 Cr in funding - aiming to grow 10x from here and become India’s largest procurement platform. 
Thank you to everyone who believed in Procol's vision. We are just getting started!
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Ending day 2 of #SequoiaPitStop 2022 on a high note. It’s been incredible to see some of our region’s innovators and builders come together over the past 48 hours. We are honoured to play host.
Thank you to everyone who came together to make the event a success 🙏🏼
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1/ Today we are excited to announce the launch of Pathfinders, @Sequoia_India's platform to connect portfolio companies who have ambitions to compete in global markets with the very best operators to give these companies a leg up
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This year, we celebrate 5 years of #SequoiaPitStop – Asia’s largest growth equity conference. We’re excited to welcome global #investment firms to meet our portfolio #founders in #Singapore on 13 & 14 Sept as we reignite connections in person!
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Heard in the context of over valued private companies this week …
“Just because you don’t get on the weighing scale, doesn’t mean your weight didn’t change”
#GetReal
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Sequoia's Surge founders dinner and welcoming the new cohort 07. Proud to be a part of this community ✨ finally catching up in person! cc
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. has spent 3+ decades partnering with founders across market cycles - navigating through 2000, 2008 & the pandemic. In a chat with & , Sequoia Spark & founders, he talked about the lessons learnt in crisis. Short #thread⬇️
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Heartening to see Indian tech companies open source their IP, esp on thing they are excellent at. is among the best (globally) at design.
India will be the world's R&D center and factory for digital goods and services.
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Give your upvotes to our new design system NeoPOP on product hunt !
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Huge thanks to @AndreSoelistyo and @kaluwi for the opportunity to have served on the Board of GoTo Indonesia over the last year. From the first @google investment into @gojekindonesia in 2016 to IPO and now the first AGM what a journey it's been. 
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Today, we announced the acquisition of Setu, a company that has been consistently raising the bar on innovation in the world of payments and financial services. Fintech today is everywhere, and every company wants to be a fintech company
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Strongly recommend for founders looking to connect with a great network of other founders, industry experts, investors & more.
We at learnt a lot in Surge 05.
This is great news!
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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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while we think of as a very different product from YC, which we respect a lot, thank you ... means a lot coming from someone with exp in the VC industry 🙏
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*I’ve no conflict/interest to praise @RajanAnandan or @singh_sequoia or @_surgeahead team. I used to invest globally and as a founder now, I’m just an observer of global VC. I always admired Surge as the best competitive response to the game that YC set,and now love the evolution
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This is a game changer! Especially in the current times for startups when capital is difficult to come by.
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If you’re looking to raise up to $3M, we want to hear from you!
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More power to the founders 🚀 Being part of is beyond just capital and there’s lots more to it!
PS. Hard to sum it up in a single tweet :) happy to share more. DMs open! 🙌🏼
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#ETNOWNewsbreakConfirmed | As reported by on June 21, is all set to buy !
Speaking on the deal, says, "The kind of infra #Setu is building will be important for India, and the partnership with #PineLabs will help"
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We are doubling down! launched 3 years ago and we are incredibly grateful to our 246 amazing founders from 112 startups in our #Surge family. We are expanding the range to invest upto $3m per company #GetReadyToSurge
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If you’re looking to raise up to $3M, we want to hear from you!
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5/ Our team is now 30+ ppl. Surge’s extensive offerings as a seed product combine a 16 wk program with investment + the opportunity to tap into 50 years of Sequoia’s global tribal knowledge on what it takes to really build enduring companies frm the ground up.
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3/ Raising the ceiling to $3M gives early-stage founders the runway & time they need to find product-market fit and build a strong team before raising a Series A.
This is esp critical @ a time when investors are being more cautious & follow-on rounds may take longer to close.
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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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Super excited to partner with focused on building for the 100million e-sports enthusiasts in India. $40m series B. Lets GO! @Sequoia_India
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We are thrilled and excited to announce that we have raised Series B funding of a whopping $40 million!
Nothing can be more motivating than winning the trust of our beloved Investors @InfoEdgeVC @Sequoia_India and the Esports community!
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This co in the tweet in 2019 was after our seed inv. Welcome Tencent, Square on the mission set out for: "fair financial services for Indonesia". Also as angel (he's been in for a while!) @Sequoia_India
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Picture taken at a fintech #startup office. #Founder says these are all the statements banks send us every month. We never open them but keep them here for inspiration - this reminds us what we don’t want to become. And it motivates team that our competition isn’t hard to beat 
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This is an unstoppable idea. We need more women entrepreneurs, leaders & greater participation in the workforce. May a thousand flowers bloom. Great to see more initiatives come up! #SequoiaSpark #SparkTheFlame 🔥#WomenAtWork #TheTimeIsNow
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What makes this doubly special is the outpouring of love and support from our founders who we've backed, and their learnings that we apply to start scrappy and small to having a dedicated SEA fund in the matter of a decade. And excited for all the new founders we get to back :)
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1/ Today, we are announcing that Sequoia India & Sequoia Southeast Asia have collectively raised $2.85B across a new set of funds, including India venture, growth funds and an $850M SEA fund - our first dedicated fund for the region.
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Proud and elated to be supported by @Sequoia_India.
Our investor partners in truest sense, thanks to their strong mission and leadership. We will be cheering from the stands as they continue to help start-ups across India.
Here's to unlocking much more together!🚀
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1/ Today, we are announcing that Sequoia India & Sequoia Southeast Asia have collectively raised $2.85B across a new set of funds, including India venture, growth funds and an $850M SEA fund - our first dedicated fund for the region.
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Sequoia have been instrumental in the creation of the powerful Indian Startup economy as a pioneer! Congratulations to Sequoia on this breakthrough pool of risk capital for Indian startups! Congratulations
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It has been an absolute pleasure working with @Sequoia_India and for the past 15 years over 2 very different startups! what has been common has been the uninhibited support, foundation of trust and transparent intent. Good luck team Sequoia!
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Onwards and Upwards.
Good luck and everyone @Sequoia_India. More power to you guys for supporting bold entrepreneurs and catalyze more dreams.
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Wow this is huge for the India and SE Asia startup ecosystem!! Congrats and Team @Sequoia_India
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@Sequoia_India has been building an ecosystem since I landed in Bangalore in 2009 to work in a seed stage < 10 member startup ! Congratulations to the entire team and godspeed for the future
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Very humbled & grateful to our LP's and so many incredible founders whose hard work & success has enabled us the privilege to pursue our mission for 16+ yrs in this region
Immense gratitude to 's global leaders Doug Leone, Roelof Botha, Mike Moritz for steadfast support
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Big news today! At a time when #funding seems to be slowing down, this is going to be a big boost for #indian and #SEAsia #startups. Through programs like #surge (funding early stage startups), #spark (backing women entrepreneurs)…lnkd.in/dMbNFhVd lnkd.in/dg3Jqf_s
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