https://www.sequoiacap.com Stories and perspectives from Sequoia Capital en-US Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-blacksmith Isaiah Boone and Carl Eschenbach News Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 zS4h0L9Mc JP, Aayush and Maru are building infrastructure for developers to validate and ship trustworthy code as fast as agents can write it. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-whop Doug Leone News Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 Px2DwRlbx https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/typesafe-the-jevolution Sonya Huang and Sonali Singh News Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 WTpOgCyNW What if machine intelligence were as dependable as a database query? https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-catalyst-turning-ideas-into-trades George Robson News Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 ioNoiQHqp Dylan and Justin’s AI agents are making sophisticated investments available to anyone. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-mecka Anas Biad and James Flynn News Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 B4zSYfudG Josh and Jason are building the data and deployment layer for physical AI. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/access-granted Harry Spitzer Spotlight Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 AVWg6OKQZ Jake Stauch spent years on a startup that couldn't find product-market fit. Now, his market is every company with an IT professional, and his platform aims to change the nature of that role for the AI age. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sail-agents-without-limits Lauren Reeder and Konstantine Buhler News Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000 CO3_jjKDX Sail is building the inference stack and runtime for agents that work for hours, days and weeks. This is the token factory of the future. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/listen-labs-and-salesforce-hear-your-customers Bryan Schreier and Konstantine Buhler News Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000 oYrWVDBBg Congratulations to Alfred, Florian and the entire Listen Labs team. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-cymphony-security-unlocks-adoption Bogomil Balkansky and Dean Meyer News Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000 OByUc51iD Controlling what AI agents can reach is one of the biggest constraints on enterprise AI adoption. Cymphony is building the governance and security layer that removes it. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/the-cognitive-revolution Konstantine Buhler Perspective Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000 bU0aZsbZ2 We externalized our muscles and built the modern world. Now we are externalizing our minds. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-air-securing-the-ai-supply-chain Bogomil Balkansky, Dean Meyer and David Cahn News Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000 mrxtN7S3f Every agent now imports plugins and skills from random places. Yair and Niv are building the software supply chain defenses for AI.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-empirik-building-the-autonomous-infrastructure-engineer Bogomil Balkansky News Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000 hgW6zZYGX Change has always been the fundamental operational signal in infrastructure. Empirik is turning that signal into the foundation for autonomous, agentic infrastructure engineering. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-form-energy David Cahn and Isaiah Boone News Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0000 YhITU4BHy Announcing Sequoia’s investment of $100M in Form Energy https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/own-your-intelligence-a-how-to-guide Sonya Huang Perspective Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0000 YB728mOdw The race for the AI application layer is not only about UI, workflows, or GTM... it is a fight for the intelligence layer itself. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-preview-lights-inference-action Sonya Huang and James Flynn News Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0000 eRA3SOCw_ Stefan and Veljko are building the AI-native workspace for quality video creation. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-corma-closing-the-defensive-cybersecurity-gap Shaun Maguire, Sonya Huang, James Flynn and Carl Eschenbach News Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0000 mgUne1q84 Alon and team are training a foundation model for defensive cybersecurity, for enterprises to defend themselves against AI’s scaling offensive capabilities.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/cyera-and-oasis-stronger-together Bogomil Balkansky and Doug Leone News Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0000 MotV8uQkd Danny, Amit, Yotam, Tamar, Yonatan and their teams are joining forces to build a complete security platform for the age of AI.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/americas-open-model-paradox Dean Meyer and Konstantine Buhler Perspective Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0000 JgtDrVxHB To Distill, or Not to Distill?

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-etched-building-the-inference-machine Sonya Huang and Abhishek Malani News Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0000 dVsmr93CV Gavin, Rob, Chris and the Etched team are building frontier clusters for inference, maximizing the intelligence that humanity can consume.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-bunkerhill-health-ai-agents-that-improve-patient-outcomes Alfred Lin News Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0000 jWj2ypV8B Nish Khandwala and David Eng are building the AI agent platform to serve every function across the health system: clinical, operational, and administrative.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sable-closing-the-diffusion-gap Shaun Maguire News Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0000 U9pk3MHEw Nim, Leon, Linda and Itamar are building an AI employee powered by real-time computer use and vision.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-probook-ai-for-the-trades Konstantine Buhler News Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0000 xVpGqKX0G George, Lewis, Ben and their team are powering home service businesses across the country, automating operations from office to doorstep.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/listen-to-the-market Alfred Lin and Abhishek Malani Perspective Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0000 YSp_BoaG0 Kalshi’s new American Power Index takes the question every cable segment fights over (who is really winning the contest for power in Washington) and answers it with a single number. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/all-systems-nominal-nominal-spotlight by Harry Spitzer Spotlight Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 -0000 PwPyen4BU How a former Navy officer’s will to serve is shaping the future of hardware development

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ai-ascent-2026 Team Sequoia Perspective Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 -0000 lofCEeGBO AI Ascent IV was our biggest and best year yet. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/standard-intelligence-training-general-intelligence-in-pixel-space Sonya Huang News Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0000 E2cubE1AT The future of useful agents may begin not with text, but with pixels. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-ineffable-intelligence-a-superlearner-for-the-era-of-experience Sonya Huang and Alfred Lin News Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0000 HprvGfgGf David Silver is racing to build AI’s next chapter with an RL ‘superlearner.’ https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-auctor Julien Bek News Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 -0000 rpYLkc_sa

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence Roelof Botha and Jack Dorsey Perspective Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0000 PvSUE5yoC https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-edra-context-for-agents-at-scale Luciana Lixandru News Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0000 gj7UVjpK_ Eugen, Yannis and their team are turning enterprise knowledge into dynamic context that makes AI agents dramatically more effective.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-scanner-every-log-tells-a-story-if-you-can-find-it-fast-enough Bogomil Balkansky News Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0000 LfBv638jM Cliff and Steven are making petabytes of security data searchable in seconds, and opening the door to a new era of AI-driven security operations.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/services-the-new-software Julien Bek Perspective Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0000 y7mODCvi7

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-firetiger-validation-at-the-speed-of-ai Lauren Reeder News Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0000 zkjo8546X With code shipping at a breakneck pace, how does observability keep up? Rustam and Achille built agents to watch the agents.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/the-opening-midgame-and-endgame-in-startups David Cahn Perspective Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0000 s8J3Rqw_4 Why the best founders are “time travelers” who play all three phases simultaneously https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-waymo Konstantine Buhler and Abhishek Malani News Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:00 -0000 SB6jUMkS4

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-flapping-airplanes David Cahn News Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000 MEqPOladw Building the “young person’s AGI lab” to unlock data efficient models, which we believe is the bottleneck to laddering up the next rung of AI intelligence

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-pace-making-work-weightless Bryan Schreier and Lauren Reeder News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000 ToI4DKzEH

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/the-most-precious-resource Pat Grady News Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000 iQuft33Pc Kais, Blockit, and Optimizing Time

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/blues-makes-every-thing-smarter Roelof Botha News Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000 x7ze77Qrz Ray Ozzie and his team built a low-cost, easy-to-use solution to connect any device to the cloud.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/2026-this-is-agi Pat Grady and Sonya Huang Perspective Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000 tY1nECCKK Saddle up: Your dreams for 2030 just became possible for 2026. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-withcoverage-insurance-as-it-should-be Roelof Botha and George Robson News Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000 a2nTBi010 JD, Max, and their team are breaking the scaling laws of risk management. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sandstone-an-ai-native-platform-for-in-house-legal-teams Bogomil Balkansky News Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0000 KSD4VbPHB Nick and Jarryd are empowering in-house legal teams to streamline and scale their operations.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-serval-empowering-it-for-ai-enterprise-automation Anas Biad, Pat Grady and Brian Halligan News Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000 LlBR2aJZW Jake, Alex and their team are giving IT teams the power to bring AI automation from their own department to every part of the organization.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-fal-the-generative-media-company Sonya Huang and James Flynn News Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000 bdHIVlAQk We are excited to announce that Sequoia is leading the Series D in fal.

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/the-abundance-paradox-why-netflix-paid-82b-for-scarcity Konstantine Buhler Perspective Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000 S7wqEmci_ Why Netflix’s $82B Acquisition Makes Sense in the Era of AI

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/ai-in-2026-the-tale-of-two-ais David Cahn Perspective Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000 doLS_7zeR 2026 will be the “Year of Delays” for data centers and AGI; it will also see accelerating AI adoption by end-users. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/nevis-bringing-ai-to-wealth-management by Anne Marie Boidock Spotlight Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000 rJKS9pKy0 Nevis puts trust at the core of its AI “system of action” for financial advisors. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-ricursive-intelligence-a-premier-frontier-lab-pioneering-ai-for-chip-design Stephanie Zhan News Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0000 Jj0BmBk4N

]]> https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-sunflower-labs-your-autonomous-eye-in-the-sky Roelof Botha News Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0000 Soy7RMf3F With the “Beehive,” Alex, Chris, and Nick are shaping the future of real-world security. https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/seed-venture-funds-2025 Team Sequoia News Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0000 TGyMqQqbq Launching our latest seed and venture funds for the next generation of legendary companies.

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