Sequoia Capital

Founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California, Sequoia Capital is a leading venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early to growth stage companies across various sectors, including energy, financial services, healthcare, internet, mobile, and technology. The firm aims to collaborate with a select number of ambitious founders to help them build transformative companies. Sequoia Capital typically invests between $100,000 and $1 million in startups at the seed stage, $1 million to $10 million in early-stage companies, and $10 million to $100 million in growth-stage firms. With a strong preference for being the first investor in profitable and rapidly growing companies, Sequoia seeks to partner with teams that have demonstrated successful products or services. The firm's investment strategy encompasses a global perspective, with significant allocations in markets such as China, India, and Israel.

Rohit Agarwal

Vice President / Principal

Abheek Anand

Managing Director

Michelle (Bailhe) Fradin

Partner

Sumaiya Balbale

COO and Operating Partner

Bogomil Balkansky

Partner

Mohit Bhatnagar

Managing Director - India

Anas Biad

Partner

Isaiah Boone

Partner

Rosemarie Boyd

Partner

David Cahn

Partner

Vipin Chamakkala

Director, Customer Partnerships

Josephine Chen

Partner

W. M. Coughran

Founder's Coach and Partner

Charlie Curnin

Partner

Joe Dobrenski

Partner of Human Capital

Christian Edler

Scout Partner

Carl Eschenbach

Venture Partner

Helen Fan

Vice President

James Flynn

Partner

Caroline Fu

Vice President

Stacey Gerber

VP, Operations and Experiences

Mike Goguen

Partner

Patrick Grady

Partner

Christopher Graff

Partner, Global Equities

Trency Gu

Managing Director

Wayne Guo

Vice President

Ravi Gupta

Partner

Steven Ji

Partner, China

Wenji Jin

Managing Director

Kais Khimji

Partner

Marie Klemchuk

CFO

Shailesh Lakhani

Managing Director - India

Jess Lee

Partner, Seed / Early

Douglas Leone

Global Managing Partner

Shmil Levy

Partner, Israel

Alfred Lin

Partner

Luciana Lixandru

Partner

Xiaobo Lu

Partner, China

Shaun Maguire

Partner

Cornelius Menke

Partner

Dean Meyer

Partner, Seed / Early

Abhishek Mohan

Principal

Michael Moritz

Managing Partner

GV Ravishankar

Managing Director - India

Andrew Reed

General Partner

Anandamoy Roychowdhary

Principal

Bryan Schreier

Partner

Yoav Shaked

Partner, Israel

Thomas Stephenson

Special Limited Partner

Glen Sun

Vice President, China

Mike Vernal

Partner

Jeff Wang

Managing Partner

Fred Wang

Managing Director, China

Cen Wang

Partner, China

Rock Wang

Managing Director

Lynn Yang

Managing Director, China

Stephanie Zhan

Partner

Skee Zhang

Managing Director

Qingsheng Zheng

Partner, China

Kui Zhou

Partner, China

Jiajia Zou

Managing Director

Roelof Botha

Partner

Past deals in Israel

Wiz

Series E in 2024
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

Wiz

Series D in 2023
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

StarkWare Industries

Series C in 2021
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.

Wiz

Series C in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

StarkWare Industries

Series B in 2021
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.

Wiz

Series B in 2021
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

Oribi

Series B in 2021
Oribi Ltd. is an analytics company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, founded in 2016. It offers an innovative online platform that simplifies web analytics for businesses and marketing agencies. The platform enables users to focus on key conversions, analyze user interactions, and track various marketing channels without the need for complex integrations or coding. By automatically capturing and categorizing all actions on a website, including button clicks, Oribi provides marketers with crucial insights that empower them to make data-driven decisions. The tool leverages artificial intelligence to deliver unique advertising insights and statistics, allowing teams to optimize their online campaigns and effectively understand their marketing performance across different channels.

Wiz

Series A in 2020
Wiz, Inc. is a cybersecurity company founded in 2020 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company specializes in cloud security, providing a platform that enables enterprises to identify and address security issues within their public cloud infrastructure. Its innovative solution offers a comprehensive view of security risks across various environments, including clouds, containers, and workloads. By utilizing a cloud-native visibility approach, Wiz delivers detailed risk assessments and root cause analyses through an agentless system, allowing security teams to gain actionable insights and effectively manage their cloud security posture.

SafeBreach

Series C in 2020
SafeBreach Inc. is a cybersecurity company that specializes in breach and attack simulation (BAS). Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with an additional location in Tel Aviv, Israel, SafeBreach offers a platform that enables organizations to proactively assess their security posture. The platform utilizes a comprehensive Hacker's Playbook, which includes real-world breach methods, to simulate potential attacks across various network segments, cloud environments, and endpoints. By mimicking the tactics of virtual hackers, SafeBreach helps businesses identify vulnerabilities and improve their security controls before actual breaches occur. The platform integrates seamlessly with security information and event management systems, ticketing systems, and automation vendors, allowing for enhanced incident response and remediation. Funded by notable investors, SafeBreach continues to innovate in the field of cybersecurity, providing vital insights to strengthen enterprise defenses against evolving threats.

BigPanda

Series C in 2019
BigPanda, Inc. is a software development company that specializes in a data science platform designed to centralize and correlate IT alerts for organizations. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel, BigPanda's platform helps IT operations, network operations centers, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents effectively. By leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms, the platform transforms numerous daily IT alerts from various fragmented systems into actionable insights, enabling users to automate incident management and improve overall service performance. BigPanda serves a diverse range of industries, including retail, technology, and media, with notable clients such as Intel, TiVO, and Workday, assisting them in reducing operational costs and enhancing their digital transformation efforts.

StarkWare Industries

Series A in 2018
StarkWare Industries Ltd is a technology company based in Netanya, Israel, established in 2017. The company specializes in developing software and hardware solutions focused on the generation and verification of computational integrity proofs. Its primary offering, known as STARK, is a zero-knowledge proof protocol that enhances privacy in blockchain applications, increases transaction throughput, and enables off-chain computation. StarkWare Industries aims to create a comprehensive proof stack to facilitate secure and efficient computational processes across various applications.

DensBits Technologies

Series B in 2010
DensBits Technologies Ltd. specializes in developing NAND flash-based storage system technologies aimed at enhancing the performance and reliability of flash memory. The company's flagship product, the Memory Modem, integrates proprietary Error Correcting Coding (ECC), Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and management solutions to significantly improve flash memory reliability while maintaining low costs. This innovative technology is designed to support various flash-based storage systems, allowing manufacturers to utilize smaller process nodes and higher bits per cell. DensBits also offers a configurable ECC core engine and a DSP core engine that optimizes read and program operations. Headquartered in Haifa, Israel, DensBits has established strategic partnerships with leading flash manufacturers and storage providers to advance next-generation storage solutions. Founded in 2007, the company operates as a subsidiary of Broadcom Limited.

DensBits Technologies

Series A in 2009
DensBits Technologies Ltd. specializes in developing NAND flash-based storage system technologies aimed at enhancing the performance and reliability of flash memory. The company's flagship product, the Memory Modem, integrates proprietary Error Correcting Coding (ECC), Digital Signal Processing (DSP), and management solutions to significantly improve flash memory reliability while maintaining low costs. This innovative technology is designed to support various flash-based storage systems, allowing manufacturers to utilize smaller process nodes and higher bits per cell. DensBits also offers a configurable ECC core engine and a DSP core engine that optimizes read and program operations. Headquartered in Haifa, Israel, DensBits has established strategic partnerships with leading flash manufacturers and storage providers to advance next-generation storage solutions. Founded in 2007, the company operates as a subsidiary of Broadcom Limited.

Silent Communication

Venture Round in 2007
Silent Communication is a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, established in 2004, that specializes in mobile value-added services. The firm focuses on providing mobile operators with innovative solutions in call management, messaging, and visual voicemail. Utilizing its Device and Network Agnostic (DANA) deployment technology, Silent Communication enhances messaging platforms for cellular devices, allowing users to minimize missed incoming calls. This not only improves user experience but also contributes to increased revenue for mobile operators.

Skyrider

Venture Round in 2006
Skyrider, Inc. designs and markets Peer to Peer (P2P) networking solutions. Its platform enables online content delivery and publishing, data analysis, report generation, and online marketing and advertising services. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in Kfar Saba, Israel.

Dblur Technologies

Series B in 2006
Dblur Technology Ltd. provides Software Lens technology for cellular cameras, digital cameras, security cameras, medical cameras and automotive cameras. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Herzliya Pituach, Israel.

Mellanox Technologies

Series C in 2002
Mellanox Technologies is a supplier of connectivity solutions designed to enhance data center performance. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and Yokneam, Israel, the company specializes in semiconductor-based products that facilitate faster data transmission to applications, thereby improving overall system performance. Mellanox offers end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions tailored for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Its products are known for delivering high bandwidth, scalability, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, making them a preferred choice for Fortune 500 companies and some of the world's most powerful supercomputers. By converging multiple legacy network technologies into a unified solution, Mellanox positions itself as a future-proof provider in the evolving landscape of data connectivity.

Airslide Systems

Series B in 2000
Airslide Systems Inc. is a provider of 3G-IP convergence solutions for cellular networks. Airslide is a networking company with research, development, and design facilities in Israel. Airslide is the developer of Nebula Gateway technology. Airslide's markets itself as a provider of a cost effective 3G/IP solution for new cellular networks, by providing complimentary solutions for the current backbone infrastructure utilizing cutting edge IP convergence technology. The company’s solutions deal with the setback of dependency on wire-line technology. Airslide's Nebula Family of Gateways provides an IP-based converged cellular network. The company combines, signaling, voice, and data technology and converges them into one efficient cost-effective IP network. This convergence can be deployed through a phased migration, beginning with the SS7 signaling network. Airslide's SMS/IP offloading solution utilizes the SS7 signaling network from the SMS traffic onto an IP network. Following the installation and implementation of the Nebula Gateway SMS/IP solution, this signaling traffic can be offloaded onto an IP network. The company is based New York City, and has an additional office in Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

Mellanox Technologies

Series B in 2000
Mellanox Technologies is a supplier of connectivity solutions designed to enhance data center performance. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and Yokneam, Israel, the company specializes in semiconductor-based products that facilitate faster data transmission to applications, thereby improving overall system performance. Mellanox offers end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions tailored for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Its products are known for delivering high bandwidth, scalability, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, making them a preferred choice for Fortune 500 companies and some of the world's most powerful supercomputers. By converging multiple legacy network technologies into a unified solution, Mellanox positions itself as a future-proof provider in the evolving landscape of data connectivity.

Airslide Systems

Series A in 1999
Airslide Systems Inc. is a provider of 3G-IP convergence solutions for cellular networks. Airslide is a networking company with research, development, and design facilities in Israel. Airslide is the developer of Nebula Gateway technology. Airslide's markets itself as a provider of a cost effective 3G/IP solution for new cellular networks, by providing complimentary solutions for the current backbone infrastructure utilizing cutting edge IP convergence technology. The company’s solutions deal with the setback of dependency on wire-line technology. Airslide's Nebula Family of Gateways provides an IP-based converged cellular network. The company combines, signaling, voice, and data technology and converges them into one efficient cost-effective IP network. This convergence can be deployed through a phased migration, beginning with the SS7 signaling network. Airslide's SMS/IP offloading solution utilizes the SS7 signaling network from the SMS traffic onto an IP network. Following the installation and implementation of the Nebula Gateway SMS/IP solution, this signaling traffic can be offloaded onto an IP network. The company is based New York City, and has an additional office in Herzelia Pituach, Israel.

Mellanox Technologies

Series A in 1999
Mellanox Technologies is a supplier of connectivity solutions designed to enhance data center performance. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and Yokneam, Israel, the company specializes in semiconductor-based products that facilitate faster data transmission to applications, thereby improving overall system performance. Mellanox offers end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect solutions tailored for servers, storage, and hyper-converged infrastructure. Its products are known for delivering high bandwidth, scalability, power efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, making them a preferred choice for Fortune 500 companies and some of the world's most powerful supercomputers. By converging multiple legacy network technologies into a unified solution, Mellanox positions itself as a future-proof provider in the evolving landscape of data connectivity.

PMC-Sierra

Venture Round in 1984
PMC-Sierra®, the premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, offers its customers technical and sales support worldwide through a network of offices in North America, Europe, Israel and Asia. PMC-Sierra provides semiconductor solutions for Enterprise Storage, Wide Area Network Infrastructure, Fiber To The Home, and Laser Printer markets. The Company is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Stock Market under the PMCS symbol.
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