The Latest Breaking News from Sequoia

Sequoia-backed Catalyst raises $30 million to build AI trading agents for everyday investors

A $30 million seed round will help the startup’s founders build out their army of investing agents.

Fortune · Oct 8

In 1999, Ron Conway backed Google before its IPO. 5 years later, the search giant went public at a $23 billion valuation

Ron Conway heard about Google when it was still a Stanford project. The idea interested him, but getting close to the founders took months. Larry Page and Sergey Brin then gave him another hurdle: bring Sequoia to the table. Conway did. His story also explains why he studies founders closely,…

The Economic Times · Sep 30

Tiger Global, Dragoneer in talks to invest in Kalshi's new $1 billion fundraise

The fresh capital raise is expected to be finalised in the coming weeks and will value Kalshi at about $40 billion, the sources said, requesting anonymity as the discussions are confidential. It comes on the heels of a $1 billion fundraise in May that valued the firm at $22 billion.

The Economic Times · Sep 29

Toyota's Biggest Off-Roader Gets Even More Capable With A New Trim

The Trailhunter upgrades are aimed at off-grid adventuring in a full-size SUV.

Motor1 · Jul 23

AI chip startup Etched raises $300 million at $10.3 billion valuation

Etched secured three hundred million dollars in a Series C funding round. This investment values the artificial intelligence chip company at ten point three billion dollars. Sequoia led the funding round with several other prominent investors participating. The company plans to use these funds to expand production and customer deployments.…

The Economic Times · Jul 23

Exclusive: Meet the AI employee that convinced Sequoia to invest $45 million in Sable

Startup Sable says its AI agent acts like a sales engineer and onboarding specialist, helping companies like Notion and Decagon automate customer conversations.

Fortune · Jul 16

Bunkerhill Health raises $55 million to put AI agents to work inside hospitals

Backed by Sequoia's Alfred Lin and Khosla Ventures, this startup is betting that healthcare's real AI opportunity isn't diagnosis—it's process.

Fortune · Jul 16

Exclusive: A former Apple engineer thinks AI infrastructure is built for the wrong future. Investors just gave him $80 million to fix it

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, Sail Research is betting the coming explosion of AI agents will force enterprises to rethink the economics of computing from the chip up.

Fortune · Jun 25

PayPal mafia member and ex–Sequoia steward Roelof Botha joins SpaceX board—reuniting with Elon Musk after decades

Roelof Botha, who spent more than two decades at VC firm Sequoia Capital, first worked with Elon Musk at PayPal.

Fortune · Jun 17

Anthropic eclipses OpenAI with valuation of $965 billion

Anthropic PBC has raised funding at a $965 billion valuation, overtaking rival OpenAI for the first time. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, with each investing over $2 billion. Google and Amazon also joined as part of previously announced multibillion-dollar commitments to Anthropic.

The Economic Times · May 29