Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital, established in 1972, is a prominent venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California. The company focuses on investing in early to growth-stage companies across various sectors, including information technology, healthcare, financial services, and energy. Sequoia Capital provides capital and strategic support to a select group of daring founders, helping them build legendary companies and push technological boundaries. The firm typically invests between $100,000 and $100 million, with a preference for being the first investor in profitable, fast-growing companies with proven teams and products. Sequoia Capital also manages funds focused on specific regions and sectors, such as India and the technology sector.

Michelle (Bailhe) Fradin

Partner

Sumaiya Balbale

COO and Operating Partner

Julien Bek

Partner

Anas Biad

Partner

Isaiah Boone

Partner

Rosemarie Boyd

Partner

Romie Boyd

Partner

Konstantine Buhler

Partner

David Cahn

Partner

Josephine Chen

Partner

W. M. Coughran

Founder's Coach and Partner

Charlie Curnin

Partner

Joe Dobrenski

Partner of Human Capital

Helen Fan

Vice President

James Flynn

Partner

Caroline Fu

Vice President

Stacey Gerber

Partner, Operations and Experience

Christopher Graff

Partner, Global Equities

Trency Gu

Managing Director

Wayne Guo

Vice President

Ravi Gupta

Partner

Sonya Huang

Partner

Steven Ji

Partner, China

Kais Khimji

Partner

Marie Klemchuk

CFO

Shailesh Lakhani

Managing Director - India

Jess Lee

Partner, Seed / Early

Shmil Levy

Partner, Israel

Luciana Lixandru

Partner

Xiaobo Lu

Partner, China

Cornelius Menke

Partner

Dean Meyer

Partner, Seed / Early

Gili Raanan

General Partner

GV Ravishankar

Managing Director - India

Andrew Reed

Partner

Lauren Reeder

Partner

George Robson

Partner

Bryan Schreier

Partner

Harshjit Sethi

Managing Director

Shailendra Singh

Managing Director

Thomas Stephenson

Special Limited Partner

Sam Sun

Partner

Glen Sun

Vice President, China

Shraeyansh Thakur

Principal

Donald Valentine

Founder

Mike Vernal

Partner

Don Vieira

Global Chief Policy Officer and Partner

Rock Wang

Managing Director

Fred Wang

Managing Director, China

Jeff Wang

Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital Global Equities

Cen Wang

Partner, China

Lynn Yang

Managing Director, China

Skee Zhang

Managing Director

Jiajia Zou

Managing Director

Past deals in Trading Platform

Phantom

Series C in 2025
Phantom is a digital wallet specifically designed for decentralized finance (DeFi) and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). It functions as a multichain wallet, allowing users to manage their cryptocurrency and NFT assets across various blockchain networks, with a primary focus on Solana. The Phantom wallet is available on multiple platforms, including mobile devices and browser extensions, enhancing accessibility for users engaged in digital finance. The wallet leverages secure and transparent digital ledger technology, enabling users to safely store, buy, send, receive, and swap tokens, as well as collect NFTs, all within a user-friendly interface.

Kalshi

Debt Financing in 2024
Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows individuals to trade on the outcomes of future events. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Kalshi provides a platform where users can engage in trading event contracts covering a diverse array of topics, including economics, climate conditions, media, and public health. This unique marketplace enables users to make informed trades based on their predictions about specific future events rather than traditional financial instruments like stocks or bonds. By enabling direct exposure to various events, Kalshi allows investors to capitalize on their insights and knowledge, thereby facilitating a new method of trading that blends market speculation with everyday decision-making.

Vessel Finance

Seed Round in 2024
Vessel Finance is a ZK-powered order book exchange, seeks to combine the dependability of DEXs with the speed of CEXs.

EDX Markets

Series B in 2024
EDX Markets operates as a digital asset marketplace. It caters to the needs of both crypto-native firms and large financial institutions. The company trades in various cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. EDX Markets combines innovative technology with financial services to enable safe and compliant trading of digital assets. It also provides trading resources and a UAT Environment for its users. The company is also known for its focus on hiring crypto talent, as stated by its CEO, Jamil Nazarali.

EDX Markets

Series A in 2023
EDX Markets operates as a digital asset marketplace. It caters to the needs of both crypto-native firms and large financial institutions. The company trades in various cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash. EDX Markets combines innovative technology with financial services to enable safe and compliant trading of digital assets. It also provides trading resources and a UAT Environment for its users. The company is also known for its focus on hiring crypto talent, as stated by its CEO, Jamil Nazarali.

CoinCRED Global

Seed Round in 2023
CoinCRED is a crypto exchange platform which has hundreds plus cryptocurrencies where traders can easily sell, buy, deposit and withdraw cryptocurrencies. It is a platform which gives more priority to safe and secure transactions with privacy. CoinCRED has been here for years for its known features like high speed low transaction fees P2P KYC 24/7 customer support with such features, it is also known as a crypto investment platform where users can easily trade and earn profits through their user-friendly interface. From beginners to experienced, any investor or trader can begin their crypto journey with the most trusted platform, CoinCRED.

Elyn

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Elyn is a company that provides an automated and unified sales platform aimed at enhancing the online shopping experience for both merchants and customers. The platform allows e-commerce businesses to implement a try-before-you-buy model, enabling customers to test products before committing to a purchase. This approach is designed to increase average order values and conversion rates. In addition, Elyn offers a return management suite that helps merchants transform product returns into exchange opportunities, further driving revenue. By integrating seamlessly with online stores, Elyn streamlines the shopping experience, managing both payment processing and logistics for shipped and returned items, thus facilitating a more efficient sales process for e-commerce companies.

Kinetic

Seed Round in 2022
Kinetic is a company currently operating in stealth mode, focusing on the development of a multi-chain NFT aggregator and trading platform tailored for the cryptocurrency market. Its platform aims to enhance the trading experience by consolidating cross-market visibility, allowing users to access a wide range of NFT transactions. Additionally, Kinetic provides personalized data feeds and predictive insights, which help users make informed decisions and achieve clarity in their trading activities.

Citadel Securities

Venture Round in 2022
Citadel Securities is a capital markets firm that utilizes a blend of financial expertise, mathematical modeling, and advanced engineering to facilitate trading and liquidity in the financial markets. The company focuses on providing essential services related to fixed-income investments and equity products, employing sophisticated predictive models and cutting-edge technology to execute trades efficiently. By serving a diverse clientele that includes asset managers, banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, government agencies, and public pension programs, Citadel Securities aims to reduce transaction costs and address liquidity requirements. Through its innovative approach, the firm plays a significant role in shaping the dynamics of global markets.

FTX

Series B in 2021
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange company that specializes in developing a professional trading platform, supporting features such as quarterly and perpetual futures, leveraged tokens, and OTC trading. It aims to cater to both professional trading firms and first-time users, offering an intuitive and robust trading environment. FTX was incubated by Alameda Research, ensuring it had industry order books from its inception. Additionally, FTX Ventures, its investment arm, provides equity and/or token investments to blockchain companies at various stages, supporting founders and maintaining their decision-making flexibility.

FTX

Series B in 2021
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange company that specializes in developing a professional trading platform, supporting features such as quarterly and perpetual futures, leveraged tokens, and OTC trading. It aims to cater to both professional trading firms and first-time users, offering an intuitive and robust trading environment. FTX was incubated by Alameda Research, ensuring it had industry order books from its inception. Additionally, FTX Ventures, its investment arm, provides equity and/or token investments to blockchain companies at various stages, supporting founders and maintaining their decision-making flexibility.

Trade Republic

Series C in 2021
Trade Republic Bank GmbH is a mobile-only broker based in Berlin, Germany, founded in 2015. The company offers a commission-free trading platform that allows users to invest in the capital market easily and intuitively through a mobile application. Its services enable traders and investors to engage with various financial instruments, including stocks, derivatives, and options, making it accessible for a new generation of investors seeking a streamlined and efficient trading experience.

Kalshi

Series A in 2021
Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows individuals to trade on the outcomes of future events. Incorporated in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California, Kalshi provides a platform where users can engage in trading event contracts covering a diverse array of topics, including economics, climate conditions, media, and public health. This unique marketplace enables users to make informed trades based on their predictions about specific future events rather than traditional financial instruments like stocks or bonds. By enabling direct exposure to various events, Kalshi allows investors to capitalize on their insights and knowledge, thereby facilitating a new method of trading that blends market speculation with everyday decision-making.

Robinhood

Convertible Note in 2021
Robinhood Financial LLC is an online brokerage firm that provides commission-free trading services to self-directed investors through its mobile application and website. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company, previously known as Chronos Financial, LLC, rebranded in 2013. As a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood offers a comprehensive platform for trading stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies. The firm aims to democratize access to financial markets, allowing users to trade and manage their investments easily. Its innovative platform includes features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, and IPO access. Robinhood generates revenue primarily by routing user orders to market makers, facilitating transactions across various asset classes.

Robinhood

Venture Round in 2021
Robinhood Financial LLC is an online brokerage firm that provides commission-free trading services to self-directed investors through its mobile application and website. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company, previously known as Chronos Financial, LLC, rebranded in 2013. As a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood offers a comprehensive platform for trading stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies. The firm aims to democratize access to financial markets, allowing users to trade and manage their investments easily. Its innovative platform includes features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, and IPO access. Robinhood generates revenue primarily by routing user orders to market makers, facilitating transactions across various asset classes.

Robinhood

Series G in 2020
Robinhood Financial LLC is an online brokerage firm that provides commission-free trading services to self-directed investors through its mobile application and website. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company, previously known as Chronos Financial, LLC, rebranded in 2013. As a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood offers a comprehensive platform for trading stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies. The firm aims to democratize access to financial markets, allowing users to trade and manage their investments easily. Its innovative platform includes features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, and IPO access. Robinhood generates revenue primarily by routing user orders to market makers, facilitating transactions across various asset classes.

Animall

Series B in 2020
Animall is an online platform focused on facilitating the buying and selling of dairy and cattle in India. Established in 2019 and headquartered in Bangalore, the company aims to transform the dairy ecosystem by leveraging technology, data science, and design. The platform provides a peer-to-peer marketplace that empowers dairy farmers to trade livestock conveniently, allowing them to save time, money, and effort. Through these efficiencies, Animall seeks to support millions of dairy farmers and contribute to the modernization of the dairy industry in India.

Robinhood

Series F in 2020
Robinhood Financial LLC is an online brokerage firm that provides commission-free trading services to self-directed investors through its mobile application and website. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company, previously known as Chronos Financial, LLC, rebranded in 2013. As a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood offers a comprehensive platform for trading stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies. The firm aims to democratize access to financial markets, allowing users to trade and manage their investments easily. Its innovative platform includes features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, and IPO access. Robinhood generates revenue primarily by routing user orders to market makers, facilitating transactions across various asset classes.

Robinhood

Series E in 2019
Robinhood Financial LLC is an online brokerage firm that provides commission-free trading services to self-directed investors through its mobile application and website. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company, previously known as Chronos Financial, LLC, rebranded in 2013. As a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood offers a comprehensive platform for trading stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies. The firm aims to democratize access to financial markets, allowing users to trade and manage their investments easily. Its innovative platform includes features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, and IPO access. Robinhood generates revenue primarily by routing user orders to market makers, facilitating transactions across various asset classes.

Veil

Seed Round in 2019
Veil, Inc. is a peer-to-peer trading platform that focuses on prediction markets and derivatives, leveraging the Augur and 0x protocols. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, the company allows users to engage in betting on various prediction markets while also facilitating the trading of a diverse array of crypto assets. Veil's innovative platform aims to enhance user participation in decentralized markets by providing a seamless and accessible trading experience.

Robinhood

Series D in 2018
Robinhood Financial LLC is an online brokerage firm that provides commission-free trading services to self-directed investors through its mobile application and website. Established in 2012 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, the company, previously known as Chronos Financial, LLC, rebranded in 2013. As a subsidiary of Robinhood Markets, Inc., Robinhood offers a comprehensive platform for trading stocks, options, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and cryptocurrencies. The firm aims to democratize access to financial markets, allowing users to trade and manage their investments easily. Its innovative platform includes features such as fractional shares, recurring investments, and IPO access. Robinhood generates revenue primarily by routing user orders to market makers, facilitating transactions across various asset classes.

Quidd

Series A in 2017
Quidd, Inc., a subsidiary of Animoca Brands Limited, operates as an NFT marketplace focused on the buying and selling of digital collectibles. The platform enables users to purchase various digital items, including stickers, GIFs, cards, and 3D toys, either through packs in the primary market or directly from other collectors. Quidd aims to transform over 2.1 billion virtual items into investment-grade assets, providing real-world liquidity to a community of over 7 million digital collectors. By facilitating the digitization of collecting, Quidd enhances the way individuals express their fandoms and construct their identities through affordable digital goods.

Chehaoduo

Series B in 2017
Chehaoduo designs an online car trading platform that sells used cars. Its online car trading platform directly links individual car sellers and buyers, which help buyers remove the middlemen as well as purchase used cars easily. Haoyong Yang founded Chehaoduo in 2014, with its headquarters in Beijing in China, with branches in Chinese cities such as Hangzhou and Chongqing.

Jinfuzi

Series B in 2015
Jinfuzi is an online investment platform that provides users with access to a diverse range of financial products, including private equity, venture capital, trusts, and foreign funds. The platform is designed to assist investors in selecting investment portfolios that align with their individual return-risk preferences. Jinfuzi offers two main mobile applications: Finance Port and Snowball, which facilitate the investment process and enhance user engagement. By focusing on wealth management services, Jinfuzi aims to simplify the investment experience for its users and enable them to make informed financial decisions.

Correlix

Venture Round in 2012
Correlix, Inc. is a technology company specializing in latency management solutions designed for buy-side, sell-side, and exchange/trading firms. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Israel, Correlix offers its RaceTeam solution, which monitors, measures, and minimizes latency in trade execution and market data flow in real-time. This solution also allows users to conduct quantitative analysis on historical latency data, aiding in the optimization of trading strategies. In addition to RaceTeam, the company provides a Latency Intelligence suite that enhances trading operations by offering real-time visibility into process flows, order flow analysis, and system processing times. The firm operates as a subsidiary of TS-Associates plc as of 2012.

Correlix

Series C in 2011
Correlix, Inc. is a technology company specializing in latency management solutions designed for buy-side, sell-side, and exchange/trading firms. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Israel, Correlix offers its RaceTeam solution, which monitors, measures, and minimizes latency in trade execution and market data flow in real-time. This solution also allows users to conduct quantitative analysis on historical latency data, aiding in the optimization of trading strategies. In addition to RaceTeam, the company provides a Latency Intelligence suite that enhances trading operations by offering real-time visibility into process flows, order flow analysis, and system processing times. The firm operates as a subsidiary of TS-Associates plc as of 2012.

Correlix

Series B in 2008
Correlix, Inc. is a technology company specializing in latency management solutions designed for buy-side, sell-side, and exchange/trading firms. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in New York, with additional offices in London and Israel, Correlix offers its RaceTeam solution, which monitors, measures, and minimizes latency in trade execution and market data flow in real-time. This solution also allows users to conduct quantitative analysis on historical latency data, aiding in the optimization of trading strategies. In addition to RaceTeam, the company provides a Latency Intelligence suite that enhances trading operations by offering real-time visibility into process flows, order flow analysis, and system processing times. The firm operates as a subsidiary of TS-Associates plc as of 2012.

Merlin Securities

Venture Round in 2008
Merlin Securities was founded by Aaron Vermut and Stephan Vermut and was based in San Francisco, California and New York City.

MEMX

Series B in 2003
MEMX LLC is a member-owned equities trading platform catering to both retail and institutional investors. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, the company focuses on enhancing the trading experience through its innovative platform. By prioritizing transparency and efficiency, MEMX aims to improve market access and execution for its members.

buyproduce.com

Venture Round in 2000
buyproduce.com is a secure digital marketplace that integrates buyers and sellers in the produce industry-24 hours a day, seven days a week. As a neutral third-party, buyproduce.com is interested in bringing a new level of efficiency to the process of buying and selling fresh produce.

Suppliermarket.com

Series B in 1999
SupplierMarket.com is an online marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of manufactured direct materials, such as nuts, bolts, rubber, glass, and corrugated packaging products. The platform connects buyers with pre-qualified suppliers, allowing them to source authentic products at competitive prices. By leveraging advanced technology, SupplierMarket.com addresses issues such as market fragmentation and inefficient information flow, creating a more balanced supply and demand environment. Buyers can easily find new suppliers, while suppliers gain access to potential customers. The process culminates in a live online bidding event where suppliers compete for the buyer's business, streamlining procurement and fostering efficiency in the materials supply chain.

Suppliermarket.com

Series A in 1999
SupplierMarket.com is an online marketplace that facilitates the buying and selling of manufactured direct materials, such as nuts, bolts, rubber, glass, and corrugated packaging products. The platform connects buyers with pre-qualified suppliers, allowing them to source authentic products at competitive prices. By leveraging advanced technology, SupplierMarket.com addresses issues such as market fragmentation and inefficient information flow, creating a more balanced supply and demand environment. Buyers can easily find new suppliers, while suppliers gain access to potential customers. The process culminates in a live online bidding event where suppliers compete for the buyer's business, streamlining procurement and fostering efficiency in the materials supply chain.

Quote.com

Series B in 1997
Quote.com, founded in 1993, was one of the pioneering financial portals, providing comprehensive stock quotes and market data on options, commodity futures, mutual funds, and bonds. The platform offered real-time business news, market analysis, balance-sheet data, and company profiles, establishing itself as a key resource for investors. In 1997, Quote.com entered a partnership with ClariNet Communications to enhance its financial market data offerings, including research and analysis. By 1999, it was integrated into the Lycos Network and became known as the Lycos Finance division, where it marketed financial content and trading tools to active traders and individual investors. Quote.com provided subscription-based services like QCharts and LiveCharts, which offered real-time streaming data. In 2006, the assets of Quote.com were acquired by Interactive Data Corporation, which specializes in global financial market data and analytic tools for various types of investors.
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