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AI chip startup Etched doubles valuation to $21 billion in under a month

The San Jose, California-based company raised $700 million, with trading firm Jane Street continuing its backing ‌by leading ⁠the round, ⁠joined by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global, among others.

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Forget the gala, these Silicon Valley schools run their own venture capital funds

A handful of elite Bay Area schools have enlisted parent-donors from Sequoia, Lightspeed, and Battery to steer small pools of donated capital into early-stage startups. With massive IPOs back en vogue, schools are lining up for what could come next.

Fortune

Exclusive: Corma raises $60M from Sequoia, Khosla Ventures for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks

The startup is exiting stealth mode after deploying its first model six weeks ago.

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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.

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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.…

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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

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.

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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.

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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

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

Floatboat Launches: The Proactive Agent OS That Runs Work From Your Calendar

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Floatboat today announced the global launch of its proactive agent OS for calendar-driven work. Unlike traditional AI tools that wait for instructions, Floatboat automatically prepares meeting briefs, drafts follow-up emails, tracks deadlines, gathers relevant documents, and triggers recurring workflows based on calendar context.…

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Meet Mark Stevens: The billionaire VC, Nvidia board member, and Giving Pledge signer who just donated $200 million to USC to help with the AI race

Billionaire venture capitalist Mark Stevens, an early Nvidia backer at Sequoia Capital, just made one of the largest gifts in USC history to fuel the university's AI ambitions.

Fortune

Sequoia-backed Astrocade raises $56 million to let everyone build games

Astrocade, launched publicly less than a year ago, already has about five million monthly active users.

Fortune

Are services the new software? This Sequoia partner thinks so

Sequoia partner Julien Bek penned a viral essay arguing there's a gold mine in AI-native service firms

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Sequoia Capital shares founder’s 1977 memo for investing in Apple — initial $600,000 investment is worth $26.4 billion today, firm said it was ‘tough to do this deal’

The VC firm shared its founder's notes on Apple recognizing the company's potential while also doubting its management team.

Fortune

Jack Dorsey and Roelof Botha think AI can make middle management obsolete

The Silicon Valley execs want companies to function as a “mini artificial general intelligence,” and leave traditional corporate hierarchy behind.

Fortune

Why Sequoia’s Alfred Lin isn’t worried about the SaaS-pocalypse

Despite fear-mongering about an AI-spurred economic crisis, Lin said that software remains a verdant area to invest.

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Exclusive: Pace raises $10 million from Sequoia as enterprise AI collides with insurance

Pace is betting insurance is ripe for AI disruption.

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How the Stock Market Performed in the First Year of Trump's Second Term

Six months after President Donald Trump's inauguration, take a look at how the stock market has performed.

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Insider Buying: Smart Money Just Spent +$100M on These 3 Stocks

Institutional insiders are placing big bets on DASH, KVUE, and KYMR. See how much is being spent on these three stocks and which investors are buying.

Axios

Exclusive: SpaceX could be more valuable than OpenAI, Sequoia's Roelof Botha says

He said SpaceX's industry dominance sets it apart from competitors.

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Mamdani’s mayoral race was marred by unhinged Islamophobia. It’s not going away soon

The racist abuse that Zohran Mamdani is still facing proves how normalized bigotry is. We need to keep calling it out

Fortune

Meet Sequoia Capital’s new stewards

Yesterday, Sequoia announced that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady would become co-stewards of the firm, as Roelof Botha steps down.

Fortune

Roelof Botha steps aside as Sequoia’s steward, passing the role to Alfred Lin and Pat Grady

After nearly a decade at the helm of Sequoia Capital, Roelof Botha will step aside as steward of the legendary Silicon Valley VC firm.

Benzinga

$950M Sequoia Capital Fund Aims To Back Next Amazon Of AI Era With Early-Stage Startup Investments Across Globe

Sequoia Capital announced on Monday two new early-stage funds worth a combined $950 million, aimed at backing young startups worldwide building technologies that could evolve into the next Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) of the AI era.

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