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 Travel

TravelPerk

Series E in 2025
TravelPerk is a comprehensive platform that streamlines business travel management by integrating booking, reporting, and support into a single tool. It enables users to easily book flights, hotels, and car rentals while ensuring adherence to company policies. The platform offers a wide range of travel options and features, including automated policies, expense integrations, and customer service support. With its user-friendly interface and advanced technology, TravelPerk helps organizations manage their travel needs efficiently, control costs, and simplify the overall booking process for employees. By combining various travel services into one solution, it aims to enhance the travel experience for businesses and reduce the complexities associated with managing business trips.

Atlys

Venture Round in 2023
Atlys is a software solutions provider that specializes in developing a user-friendly visa application platform aimed at simplifying the visa process for travelers. The company offers tools that allow users to apply for visas with ease, featuring personalized guidance, document scanning and uploading capabilities, and real-time status updates. By focusing on innovation and efficiency, Atlys enhances the experience for customers, enabling them to save time and reduce stress while ensuring timely visa acquisition. In addition to its visa application services, Atlys also provides various software tools designed to streamline business operations, including project management, collaboration platforms, data analytics, and automation solutions, ultimately helping organizations improve productivity and make informed decisions.

Safara

Seed Round in 2022
Safara is a membership-based service designed to enhance the hotel booking experience for frequent travelers. The platform allows users to earn cashback on bookings, which can be applied to future trips without restrictions. This flexible cashback system enables travelers to either use their earnings instantly or accumulate them for larger expenses. Safara aims to make travel more affordable by providing refunding commissions in the form of points for every booking made. Supported by notable investors, Safara is committed to transforming how individuals plan and finance their travel experiences.

This One

Seed Round in 2022
This One is an online discovery engine designed to help individuals find movies tailored to their personal preferences. The platform employs responsible algorithms to match users with films that align with their tastes, ensuring that the recommendations are timely and relevant. In addition to movies, This One also assists users in discovering music and travel destinations that suit their interests, providing a comprehensive approach to entertainment and leisure. By focusing on individual preferences, the service aims to enhance the user experience and make it easier for people to access media that resonates with their moods and desires.

Pace

Series A in 2021
Pace operates a revenue management platform specifically designed for hotels and hostels, providing innovative solutions to address the challenges of fluctuating demand for accommodations. Founded in 2017 and based in London, the company utilizes machine learning and statistical methods to offer real-time forecasting, price sensitivity analysis, and automation. This allows hotel owners to optimize pricing strategies and sales channels, potentially increasing annual revenues by over 30%. Pace's proprietary algorithms are continuously refined by its dedicated science team, setting the company apart as a technology-driven entity within the hospitality sector. By focusing on real-time automation and responsive pricing, Pace ensures that hotel owners can effectively adapt to market changes and secure the right bookings at optimal prices.

Pace

Series A in 2021
Pace operates a revenue management platform specifically designed for hotels and hostels, providing innovative solutions to address the challenges of fluctuating demand for accommodations. Founded in 2017 and based in London, the company utilizes machine learning and statistical methods to offer real-time forecasting, price sensitivity analysis, and automation. This allows hotel owners to optimize pricing strategies and sales channels, potentially increasing annual revenues by over 30%. Pace's proprietary algorithms are continuously refined by its dedicated science team, setting the company apart as a technology-driven entity within the hospitality sector. By focusing on real-time automation and responsive pricing, Pace ensures that hotel owners can effectively adapt to market changes and secure the right bookings at optimal prices.

Tourlane

Series C in 2020
Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world. The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancy to a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.

Trell

Seed Round in 2019
Trell is a community-based platform for discovering lifestyles through videos in Indian Languages. It enables people to create visual collections of their lifestyle experiences. The community shares new ideas, experiences, and product recommendations with each other in multiple Indian languages and over 7 different lifestyle categories including Fashion, Beauty, Movies & TV Series, Recipes, Travel & Personal Care. 100M + users create around 5M+ visual & textual blogs that get over 10 Billion views on the app every month.

Flynote

Seed Round in 2019
Travel expert in your pocket. Get instantly connected to an expert. Plan & Book the best deals anywhere. They connect aspiring travelers with the best destination planners and experts over chat!

Tourlane

Series B in 2018
Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world. The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancy to a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.

DAILYHOTEL

Series C in 2018
DAILYHOTEL is a lifestyle technology enabler that provides affordable access to quality experiences in accommodation, dining and travel offerings through its mobile platform. They focus on transaction through mobile app only, selling more than 100,000 room every month on average in just South Korea alone. In 2017 March, they have reached over 7million downloads for their app.

Airbnb

Series F in 2017
Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and unique experiences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company facilitates bookings for a diverse range of lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels. As one of the largest alternative accommodation travel agencies in the world, Airbnb's marketplace model allows over 5 million hosts to list their properties, resulting in more than 8 million active accommodation listings across nearly every country. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction fees on online bookings, with a significant portion of its earnings coming from the North American region.

Traveloka

Venture Round in 2017
Traveloka is an online travel aggregator based in Indonesia, primarily focused on helping customers search for and book various travel options. It operates a comprehensive platform that enables users to compare and book flights, hotels, villas, apartments, transportation, tours, holiday packages, and activities. By providing a user-friendly search engine, Traveloka aims to simplify the travel planning process, allowing individuals to find accommodations and tickets that meet their specific needs. The company has expanded its operations to six countries and continues to explore new initiatives to enhance its impact in the travel industry.

Airbnb

Series F in 2016
Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and unique experiences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company facilitates bookings for a diverse range of lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels. As one of the largest alternative accommodation travel agencies in the world, Airbnb's marketplace model allows over 5 million hosts to list their properties, resulting in more than 8 million active accommodation listings across nearly every country. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction fees on online bookings, with a significant portion of its earnings coming from the North American region.

DAILYHOTEL

Venture Round in 2015
DAILYHOTEL is a lifestyle technology enabler that provides affordable access to quality experiences in accommodation, dining and travel offerings through its mobile platform. They focus on transaction through mobile app only, selling more than 100,000 room every month on average in just South Korea alone. In 2017 March, they have reached over 7million downloads for their app.

Airbnb

Series E in 2015
Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and unique experiences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company facilitates bookings for a diverse range of lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels. As one of the largest alternative accommodation travel agencies in the world, Airbnb's marketplace model allows over 5 million hosts to list their properties, resulting in more than 8 million active accommodation listings across nearly every country. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction fees on online bookings, with a significant portion of its earnings coming from the North American region.

StayZilla

Series B in 2015
Stayzilla is an online marketplace in India specializing in short-term travel accommodations. The platform offers a diverse range of lodging options, including hotels, lodges, homestays, and guesthouses, aiming to cater to various customer preferences and budgets, from ultra-low-cost rooms to luxury stays. With a presence in over 1,100 cities and more than 17,000 listings, Stayzilla provides travelers with extensive choices across the country. Homeowners can list their properties on the platform, facilitating a seamless connection between property owners and travelers seeking unique stays in approximately 4,000 towns throughout India.

Trippy

Series A in 2014
Trippy is a community of travelers helping each other travel better through a question-and-answer based community. Along the way, Trippy aims to inspire and spread "helper joy" -- that happy kick you get when someone else has a great experience thanks to advice you shared. Trippy launched as a finalist in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 Startup Battlefield. The company was founded by J.R. Johnson and the team that launched and grew VirtualTourist.com and OneTime.com (both bootstrapped and grown to an annual revenue of $18MM and $8MM EBITDA) until the sites were acquired by Expedia in 2008.

Airbnb

Series C in 2013
Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and unique experiences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company facilitates bookings for a diverse range of lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels. As one of the largest alternative accommodation travel agencies in the world, Airbnb's marketplace model allows over 5 million hosts to list their properties, resulting in more than 8 million active accommodation listings across nearly every country. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction fees on online bookings, with a significant portion of its earnings coming from the North American region.

Skyscanner

Venture Round in 2013
Skyscanner Limited is a global travel search engine headquartered in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, founded in 2001. The company enables users to compare a wide range of travel options, including flights, hotels, and car rentals, by aggregating data from various travel providers. This allows travelers to easily find and book the best deals available from major airlines and online travel agents. Skyscanner operates additional offices in several countries, including Singapore, Spain, China, the United States, Hungary, and Bulgaria. By serving the travel, tourism, and hospitality industries, Skyscanner aims to simplify the travel planning process and offer users a comprehensive platform for their travel needs.

Decolar.com

Venture Round in 2012
Decolar.com is an online travel agency that offers complete travel services, including tickets, tour packages, accommodation, and car rental. Since 1999, more than 2,000,000 people have bought their air tickets through this platform. Decolar.com is present in 21 countries, including Argentina, the U.S., and Spain. It has a partnership of more than 500 airlines and 150,000 hotels worldwide. When purchasing an airline ticket or travel package, Decolar.com’s customers also receive discounts at restaurants and shops in the chosen destination, plus 10% discount on purchases in Duty Free. Decolar.com was launched in 1999 and is based in Guarulhos, Sao Paulo.

Despegar

Venture Round in 2012
Despegar is an online travel agency that specializes in the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking markets, providing services for both leisure and corporate travelers. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Miami, Florida, the company enables users to research travel options, check flight availability, and make reservations for flights, hotels, and car rentals through its platform. Despegar also offers various travel-related services, including vacation packages and access to airlines and accommodation options. The company operates in several countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, Venezuela, Spain, and the United States, aiming to facilitate unique travel experiences for its customers.

Trippy

Venture Round in 2011
Trippy is a community of travelers helping each other travel better through a question-and-answer based community. Along the way, Trippy aims to inspire and spread "helper joy" -- that happy kick you get when someone else has a great experience thanks to advice you shared. Trippy launched as a finalist in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 Startup Battlefield. The company was founded by J.R. Johnson and the team that launched and grew VirtualTourist.com and OneTime.com (both bootstrapped and grown to an annual revenue of $18MM and $8MM EBITDA) until the sites were acquired by Expedia in 2008.

Airbnb

Series B in 2011
Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and unique experiences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company facilitates bookings for a diverse range of lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels. As one of the largest alternative accommodation travel agencies in the world, Airbnb's marketplace model allows over 5 million hosts to list their properties, resulting in more than 8 million active accommodation listings across nearly every country. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction fees on online bookings, with a significant portion of its earnings coming from the North American region.

Flight Steward

Seed Round in 2011
Flight Steward (航班管家) is a Chinese mobile application that offers one-stop travel services that include flight delay fixes, flight tickets, hotel reservations, mobile check-in, and airport information navigation. The application also supports the real-time inquiry and purchase of domestic flight tickets and various online modes of payment like Unionpay and Alipay. Passengers can subscribe to dynamic flight information to timely learn real-time information like flight delay and cancellation, so as to arrange their itineraries accordingly. The product’s user base exceeded 1 million in early 2010. Flight Steward obtained $ 5 million from Sequoia Capital in a Series A financing in 2011, and nearly $15 million from Matrix Partners China and Greylock in the Series B financing. By 2013, Flight Steward has become the most comprehensive platform for premium class ticket bookings in China.

Airbnb

Series A in 2010
Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and unique experiences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company facilitates bookings for a diverse range of lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels. As one of the largest alternative accommodation travel agencies in the world, Airbnb's marketplace model allows over 5 million hosts to list their properties, resulting in more than 8 million active accommodation listings across nearly every country. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction fees on online bookings, with a significant portion of its earnings coming from the North American region.

Airbnb

Seed Round in 2009
Airbnb, Inc. operates a global online platform that connects hosts with guests seeking short-term accommodations and unique experiences. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company facilitates bookings for a diverse range of lodging options, including private rooms, luxury villas, and boutique hotels. As one of the largest alternative accommodation travel agencies in the world, Airbnb's marketplace model allows over 5 million hosts to list their properties, resulting in more than 8 million active accommodation listings across nearly every country. The company generates revenue primarily through transaction fees on online bookings, with a significant portion of its earnings coming from the North American region.

KAYAK

Series D in 2007
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.

Travelguru

Venture Round in 2006
Travelguru is an Indian travel website, offering search, booking, and deals on flights, hotels and holiday packages across India and the world. They offers hotel bookings, holiday packages, and airline travel reservations.

The Times Of India

Venture Round in 2006
The Times of India is an English language daily newspaper published in Mumbai, Ahmadabad, and Delhi. The newspaper circulates nationally and covers a broad range of subject matter, including business, technology, sports, cricket, entertainment, travel, real estate, sports, and more. Originally called The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce, the paper was founded in 1838 to serve the British residents of western India. At first published twice weekly, the paper became a daily in 1851 and changed its name to The Times of India in 1861.

KAYAK

Series B in 2004
KAYAK helps millions of travelers around the globe make confident travel decisions. As one of the world’s leading travel search engines, KAYAK searches other sites to show travelers the information they need to find the right flights, hotels, rental cars and vacation packages. KAYAK offers a variety of tools and features such as KAYAK trips, explore, and price forecast. In addition, KAYAK also manages a portfolio of metasearch brands including: SWOODOO, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined that together process 6 billion queries across our platforms each year. KAYAK is part of Booking Holdings Inc. and operates sites in more than 60 countries and territories. KAYAK was launched in the US in 2004 by a team of industry leaders including Steve Hafner (CEO) a co-founder of Orbitz, Paul English (CTO) a former VP of technology at Intuit, Terrell Jones (Chairman), founder of Travelocity, and Greg Slyngstad (Director), a co-founder of Expedia.
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