Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 1972 and based in Menlo Park, California. It invests in seed, early, and growth-stage companies across technology, energy, financial services, healthcare, internet, mobile, outsourcing, manufacturing, media, and retail sectors. The firm seeks ambitious founders and aims to help them build long-lasting, scalable businesses, often taking the lead or significant co-investor roles and providing strategic guidance, networks, and resources. It maintains an international footprint, including investments in India and other regions, reflecting a global approach to partnering with fast-growing companies. Sequoia emphasizes strong teams, innovative products or services, and the potential for rapid growth, positioning itself as a long-term partner for companies that redefine their markets.

Michelle Bailhe

Partner

Sumaiya Balbale

COO and Operating Partner

Bogomil Balkansky

Partner

Julien Bek

Partner

Anas Biad

Partner

Isaiah Boone

Partner

Rosemarie Boyd

Partner

Romie Boyd

Partner

Konstantine Buhler

Partner

David Cahn

Partner

Luzhou Chen

Investor

Josephine Chen

Partner

W. M. Coughran

Founder's Coach and Partner

Charlie Curnin

Investor

Long Do

Analyst

Joe Dobrenski

Partner of Human Capital

Carl Eschenbach

Venture Partner

Helen Fan

Vice President

James Flynn

Partner

Caroline Fu

Vice President

Stacey Gerber

Partner, Operations and Experience

Jim Goetz

Partner

Patrick Grady

Partner

Christopher Graff

Partner, Global Equities

Trency Gu

Managing Director

Wayne Guo

Vice President

Ravi Gupta

Partner

Dannie Herzberg

Partner

Sonya Huang

Partner

Kais Khimji

Partner

Marie Klemchuk

CFO

Shailesh Lakhani

Managing Director - India

Jess Lee

Partner

Douglas Leone

Partner

Alfred Lin

Partner

Luciana Lixandru

Partner

Xiaobo Lu

Partner, China

Shaun Maguire

Partner

Cornelius Menke

Partner

Dean Meyer

Partner

Matthew Miller

Partner

Michael Moritz

Partner

Momo Ong

Scout

GV Ravishankar

Managing Director - India

Lauren Reeder

Partner

George Robson

Partner

Bryan Schreier

Partner

Harshjit Sethi

Managing Director

Thomas Stephenson

Special Limited Partner

Sam Sun

Partner

Glen Sun

Vice President, China

Teng Lei

Associate

Shraeyansh Thakur

Principal

Donald Valentine

Founder

Mike Vernal

Early-Stage Partner

Don Vieira

Global Chief Policy Officer and Partner

Fred Wang

Managing Director, China

Jeff Wang

Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital Global Equities

Cen Wang

Partner, China

Rock Wang

Managing Director

Lynn Yang

Managing Director, China

Skee Zhang

Managing Director

Jiajia Zou

Managing Director

Past deals in Web Design

DesignPro

Pre Seed Round in 2023
DesignPro is an AI-powered product optimization platform that assists creators in enhancing their products more efficiently. The company offers a tool that analyzes websites and applications in real-time, identifying usability issues and proposing targeted improvements to increase user adoption. In addition to product optimization, DesignPro provides business productivity software that facilitates feedback collection and alignment among stakeholders. Its platform allows users to gather requirements, share designs, and utilize intuitive workflows and annotation tools to obtain relevant feedback. By enabling effective collaboration among designers, DesignPro aims to improve overall productivity and the quality of product experiences.

Dedalo

Pre Seed Round in 2023
Dedalo is an innovative startup that employs artificial intelligence to assist corporations and banks in minimizing their digital carbon footprint and making more impact-focused decisions.

Deno

Series A in 2022
Deno Deploy offers a distributed system for running JavaScript, TypeScript, and WebAssembly at the edge globally. It integrates the V8 JavaScript runtime with a high-performance asynchronous web server to deliver optimal performance without unnecessary abstractions.

Mutiny

Series B in 2022
Mutiny empowers B2B companies and SaaS businesses to personalize website experiences for target accounts using AI-powered microsites and account intelligence, driving pipeline generation and revenue growth.

Arcade

Seed Round in 2022
Arcade allows its users to create interactive bits of their product that they can share on their website, blog, or social media. The company was founded in 2021 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

Mutiny

Series A in 2021
Mutiny empowers B2B companies and SaaS businesses to personalize website experiences for target accounts using AI-powered microsites and account intelligence, driving pipeline generation and revenue growth.

Site Biz Pros

Seed Round in 2021
Site Biz Pros provides a suite of software tools for small businesses to get online

CarDekho

Series D in 2019
CarDekho is a technology services company that delivers mobile application development, web design and development, offshore staffing, and testing and quality assurance solutions. It offers consulting and development for enterprise mobility, including iOS, Android, and cross‑platform applications, as well as web services such as responsive design, CMS, e‑commerce, and custom web applications. The firm provides offshore talent for designers, developers, and QA specialists, and offers comprehensive testing services covering automated, manual, functional, and integration testing. CarDekho builds applications across a wide range of sectors, including automotive, e‑learning, finance, social networking, travel, health, job placement, news, utilities, entertainment, lifestyle, e‑commerce, IT, communication, and publishing.

GirnarSoft

Series B in 2015
Founded in 2007, GirnarSoft is a leading mobile and web solutions development company based in India. With over 900 top engineers and management professionals, the company offers a wide range of services including product development, manual testing, automation, mobile application development, custom software development, and automotive portals.

Weebly

Series C in 2014
Weebly, Inc., established in 2006, is a San Francisco-based company that empowers small businesses and entrepreneurs to create professional websites and online stores. Its user-friendly platform offers customizable templates, essential features like forms and analytics, and seamless e-commerce functionality. Weebly also provides mobile applications, domain name services, and integrated marketing tools to help businesses grow. As of 2018, Weebly operates as a subsidiary of Square, Inc.

GirnarSoft

Series A in 2013
Founded in 2007, GirnarSoft is a leading mobile and web solutions development company based in India. With over 900 top engineers and management professionals, the company offers a wide range of services including product development, manual testing, automation, mobile application development, custom software development, and automotive portals.

Sencha

Series B in 2011
Sencha Inc., headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in enterprise Web application development. It offers a comprehensive Web application lifecycle management platform, enabling Fortune 100 companies worldwide to streamline their software development process. Sencha's product suite includes testing tools, JavaScript frameworks (Ext JS, GXT, Touch), productivity tools (Sencha IDE Plugins, Cmd, Inspector), and a visual application builder (Sencha Architect). Additionally, they provide professional services such as architecture review, application modernization, and custom development, along with training, maintenance, and support. Sencha's platform empowers enterprises to build, test, and deploy cross-platform Web applications, ensuring the right user experience across various devices.

Weebly

Series B in 2011
Weebly, Inc., established in 2006, is a San Francisco-based company that empowers small businesses and entrepreneurs to create professional websites and online stores. Its user-friendly platform offers customizable templates, essential features like forms and analytics, and seamless e-commerce functionality. Weebly also provides mobile applications, domain name services, and integrated marketing tools to help businesses grow. As of 2018, Weebly operates as a subsidiary of Square, Inc.

2345.com

Series B in 2010
Founded in September 2005, 2345.com is a Chinese software company that offers a web directory service. Its platform enables users to quickly access various online resources such as search engines, practical inquiries, weather forecasts, group buying navigation, films and TV shows, city navigation, email login, internet bookmarks, and more, without needing to remember complex web addresses.

Sencha

Series A in 2010
Sencha Inc., headquartered in Redwood City, California, specializes in enterprise Web application development. It offers a comprehensive Web application lifecycle management platform, enabling Fortune 100 companies worldwide to streamline their software development process. Sencha's product suite includes testing tools, JavaScript frameworks (Ext JS, GXT, Touch), productivity tools (Sencha IDE Plugins, Cmd, Inspector), and a visual application builder (Sencha Architect). Additionally, they provide professional services such as architecture review, application modernization, and custom development, along with training, maintenance, and support. Sencha's platform empowers enterprises to build, test, and deploy cross-platform Web applications, ensuring the right user experience across various devices.

Aobi Island

Angel Round in 2009
Aobi Island is an educational platform focused on providing secure, healthy, and interesting web services for children aged 6 to 14. It enables children to cultivate their imagination and creativity in a healthy virtual world and realize their dreams, so that they can develop a positive outlook on life and the world. Children can communicate with each other through the different activities and features offered through Aobi Island. Aobi Island was developed by Guangzhou Baitian Info.

MarketLive

Series E in 2008
MarketLive is a prominent provider of eCommerce technology and expert services, established in 1995. The company specializes in helping fast-growing businesses sell products and services across various channels. Its flagship offering, the MarketLive eCommerce Suite, is designed to cater to the specific needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. This platform, combined with MarketLive's Intelligent Selling methodology, enhances the online customer experience while significantly improving key performance metrics such as customer acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports numerous well-known eCommerce sites, enabling them to establish a robust online sales and marketing presence and effectively manage content, process orders, and track website activity.

Kangsheng Chuangxiang

Series B in 2008
Kangsheng Chuangxiang Technology is a community platform and service supplier in China. Located in the Shangdi High-Tech District, Zhongguancun, Beijing, the company is an internet enterprise with independent intellectual property rights, which has been titled the High-Tech Enterprise by Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. Discuz! , the core community product of the company, is a community forum with the largest number of users and the widest coverage worldwide.

Digital Chocolate

Series C in 2006
Digital Chocolate is a video game developer and publisher that focuses on creating casual and social games for various platforms, including the web, Facebook, and mobile phones. The company operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Finland, Spain, India, and Mexico. In addition to mobile games, Digital Chocolate has developed applications that cater to users interested in fashion and business simulation. The company also offers games specifically designed for the Microsoft gaming console, showcasing its diverse portfolio within the gaming industry.

Kangsheng Chuangxiang

Series A in 2006
Kangsheng Chuangxiang Technology is a community platform and service supplier in China. Located in the Shangdi High-Tech District, Zhongguancun, Beijing, the company is an internet enterprise with independent intellectual property rights, which has been titled the High-Tech Enterprise by Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission. Discuz! , the core community product of the company, is a community forum with the largest number of users and the widest coverage worldwide.

MarketLive

Series D in 2006
MarketLive is a prominent provider of eCommerce technology and expert services, established in 1995. The company specializes in helping fast-growing businesses sell products and services across various channels. Its flagship offering, the MarketLive eCommerce Suite, is designed to cater to the specific needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. This platform, combined with MarketLive's Intelligent Selling methodology, enhances the online customer experience while significantly improving key performance metrics such as customer acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports numerous well-known eCommerce sites, enabling them to establish a robust online sales and marketing presence and effectively manage content, process orders, and track website activity.

Kavam.com

Series B in 2006
A web index, in construction, whose purpose is to provide a simple method for consumers to define their own search engines.

Digital Chocolate

Series B in 2004
Digital Chocolate is a video game developer and publisher that focuses on creating casual and social games for various platforms, including the web, Facebook, and mobile phones. The company operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Finland, Spain, India, and Mexico. In addition to mobile games, Digital Chocolate has developed applications that cater to users interested in fashion and business simulation. The company also offers games specifically designed for the Microsoft gaming console, showcasing its diverse portfolio within the gaming industry.

Digital Chocolate

Series A in 2004
Digital Chocolate is a video game developer and publisher that focuses on creating casual and social games for various platforms, including the web, Facebook, and mobile phones. The company operates in multiple countries, including the United States, Finland, Spain, India, and Mexico. In addition to mobile games, Digital Chocolate has developed applications that cater to users interested in fashion and business simulation. The company also offers games specifically designed for the Microsoft gaming console, showcasing its diverse portfolio within the gaming industry.

MarketLive

Venture Round in 2003
MarketLive is a prominent provider of eCommerce technology and expert services, established in 1995. The company specializes in helping fast-growing businesses sell products and services across various channels. Its flagship offering, the MarketLive eCommerce Suite, is designed to cater to the specific needs of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and manufacturers. This platform, combined with MarketLive's Intelligent Selling methodology, enhances the online customer experience while significantly improving key performance metrics such as customer acquisition, conversion, and retention rates. MarketLive supports numerous well-known eCommerce sites, enabling them to establish a robust online sales and marketing presence and effectively manage content, process orders, and track website activity.

Multimedia Live

Venture Round in 2003
A pioneer of Intelligent Selling(TM) online, is a nationally recognized Web technology and design company.

Plumtree Software

Venture Round in 2000
Plumtree Software specializes in the development and marketing of software solutions designed for deploying web applications. The company's flagship product, the Enterprise Web Suite, integrates various technologies, including portal, content management, collaboration, integration, and search functionalities. Central to its offerings is the Corporate Portal, which serves as a framework for applications, facilitating the creation of virtual community workspaces and ensuring a unified web environment. Additionally, Plumtree provides a Collaboration Server that allows users to work together online, managing tasks, projects, and document sharing. The Content Server handles the publication and administration of web content, while the Search Server enables comprehensive indexing and searching of all accessible materials. The Studio Server offers tools for portal managers to create application components without coding, and the Web Services Integration technologies connect the portal to enterprise systems. Plumtree Software also delivers deployment and support services, consulting, and training, distributing its products through a direct sales force and various partners globally. Founded in 1996, the company is based in San Francisco, California, and operates as a subsidiary of Oracle Corp.

Sales.com

Venture Round in 1999
Sales.com a Web destination for sales professionals by sales professionals.

Macromedia

Venture Round in 1999
Macromedia was a North American software company based in San Francisco, California, known for its graphics and web development tools, including the widely used Macromedia Flash. The company played a significant role in the evolution of web multimedia and interactive content. In December 2005, Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems, which took control of its product line, enhancing Adobe's offerings in the graphics and web development sectors.

eALITY

Venture Round in 1999
eALITY offers a range of web-based application services to small- and mid-size companies. eALITY Express is the company’s primary product and is a tool that enables clients to map the approval path of purchase orders, expense reports, and other critical business processes. eALITY is based in Foster City, California.

linkexchange

Venture Round in 1997
LinkExchange was the web's largest banner exchange network and expanded to become the web's first small-business portal before being acquired by Microsoft for US $265 million in 1998: http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft-acquires-LinkExchange/2100-1033_3-217516.html LinkExchange was founded in the spring of 1996 by 23-year-old Harvard grads [Tony Hsieh](/people/tony-hsieh) and [Sanjay Madan](/people/sanjay-madan). 24-year-old Harvard grad [Ali Partovi](/people/ali-partovi) joined them a few months later as a third partner. At its peak, the LinkExchange banner network reached over half of Internet-enabled households every month, according to Media Metrix. In June, 1998, LinkExchange acquired Submit It! Inc. (makers of Submit It!, ClickTrade, and ListBot), and MerchantPlanet (a turnkey e-commerce solution for merchants). In November, 1998, LinkExchange was acquired by Microsoft for US$265 million. Other notable LinkExchange people included CFO [Alfred Lin](/people/alfred-lin), and via acquisition of Submit-it, [Scott Banister](/people/scott-banister), and contractor [Max Levchin](/people/max-levchin).
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