Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We aim to be the first true believers in tomorrow’s most valuable and enduring businesses. We partner with a few outliers each year and go all-in, providing them with the hands-on help required at every stage of the company building journey. Our expertise comes from 50 years of working with legendary founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Adi Tatarko, Brian Chesky, Jensen Huang, Anne Wojcicki, Eric Yuan, Patrick Collison, Julia Hartz, and Sebastian Siemiatkowski. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 25% of NASDAQ's total value. Since our inception, the vast majority of the money we invest has been on behalf of nonprofits and schools like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT, which means most of the returns we generate benefit these great causes.
Agents now Run Revenue, End-to-End. Launching Rox Autopilot to all 🚀
We’ve unlocked a series of agentic breakthroughs to enable the world’s largest enterprises to run their critical revenue systems on Autopilot.
Coding and support agents had their moment. Now it’s time for Revenue Agents:
- Autonomously generate pipeline
- Autonomously manage and forecast deals
- Autonomously run renewals and expansion deal desks
No SaaS. No enrichment. No CRM. Just an Agent.
This breakthrough wouldn’t be possible without:
- Customers like Deepa (MongoDB), Andy, namrata, Austin and Joey
- Strategic partners like R.V. Guha (Microsoft) and Databricks
- Product partners like Jason (Orum 🥇), Mei (LeadIQ), and others
- Team Persana AI (Sriya, Rush) joining forces 🚀
We’re offering 2× free agent actions for the next 30 days. Start Autopilot at rox.com
I’m thrilled to be joining Sequoia Capital as a Partner on the Early team.
Getting to know Konstantine Buhler, Alfred Lin, Pat Grady, and the entire Sequoia team, I have been humbled by their exceptional quality of character and caliber of thought – it's always a joy to learn from those who operate at the highest level of their craft.
It's an honor to be a part of this team and to support those daring to make a dent in the universe.
🚨 NEW EPISODE DROP: Tom Hale of ŌURA Ring
Oura is the most interesting hardware company in consumer health right now. A Finnish startup that quietly built a defensible moat while Apple and Google were looking the other way. This company has a big year ahead of them, and it's hard not to root for them as they near a milestone that every company dreams of.
Tom became the CEO of Oura because of a personal health crisis. After suffering from sudden insomnia following the sale of SurveyMonkey, he used an Oura ring to "fix" his life. He was the Oura super-fan who jumped into the CEO role when he found a mission he couldn't ignore.
Some of my favorite lessons from this episode
1. The CEO's real job is to be the counterweight
When the team is celebrating, the CEO asks "what are we missing?" When things feel awful, the CEO finds the horizon. Andy Grove captured this idea in a more brutal framing in Only the Paranoid Survive: what separates companies that adapt from ones that collapse is whether the leadership maintains strategic discomfort even during periods of apparent strength.
2. Customer stories outperform dashboards
Phrases like Oura "saved my life" or "helped me pregnant" do something metrics can't. They make people wake up feeling like their work matters. Tom believes this adds an extra 10-30% to team performance and has measured it internally. The best leaders build storytelling infrastructure, not just reporting infrastructure.
3. Before you step into the CEO role, deliberately operate across every major function
Tom spent time inside call centers, sales, product, M&A, and internal startups. It's not just empathy-building, it's how you develop an eye for talent (assesing the leaders that you choose for those functions later on) and understand where the handoffs between functions actually break.
4. Don't force one culture across different geographies.
Finnish work culture, built on trust, equality, and low hierarchy, and American capitalist energy, built on urgency, competition, and individual performance, aren't opposites to be resolved. They're complements to be respected. It's the friction between them that can actually be a source of strength.
5. The Messy Middle (200 - 2,000 employees) is the time frame to be most paranoid about who you hire and promote
Steve Jobs had the "no bozos" rule for a reason. Professional managers who know how to manage, without knowing how to "do," quietly lower the bar. Protect the spirit that got you here, and be ruthlessly disciplined about who you trust to carry it forward.
6. In hardware, resist the manufacturing shortcut
Oura avoided the easy Chinese manufacturing route for years to build proprietary ring production capabilities, and it created a defensible lead. They're now opening a U.S. factory for security-sensitive customers. Short-term cost savings can silently cost you long-term advantage.
We are excited to triple down on our partnership with Harvey.
At Sequoia Capital, our mission is to help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.
Winston, Gabe, and the Harvey team truly embody that - a world-class team with world-class execution, transforming one of the most important industries with AI.
Their excellent performance on this ambitious mission has led us to lead three funding rounds, with many more to come.
cc: Pat Grady
Today we announced Harvey’s latest funding round at an $11B valuation.
AI agents are fundamentally changing how legal work gets done. They take on high-volume, complex tasks and run workflows end to end. More than 25,000 custom agents are already running on Harvey across leading law firms and legal departments, helping teams move faster and operate in entirely new ways.
This round, co-led by GIC and Sequoia Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Conviction, Elad Gil, Evantic Capital, and Kleiner Perkins, allows us to expand these agents and scale the embedded legal engineering teams that build and optimize them alongside our customers.
Today, over 100,000 lawyers at 1,300 organizations rely on Harvey for critical work. What started as a tool is becoming core infrastructure, speeding up execution, improving coordination, and shifting focus toward higher-value outcomes. This funding allows us to continue leading the industry and defining the future of legal and professional services.
I am grateful to our customers, team, and investors for their partnership and shared belief in what we’re building.
Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eu-CgK_E
Today we announced Harvey’s latest funding round at an $11B valuation.
AI agents are fundamentally changing how legal work gets done. They take on high-volume, complex tasks and run workflows end to end. More than 25,000 custom agents are already running on Harvey across leading law firms and legal departments, helping teams move faster and operate in entirely new ways.
This round, co-led by GIC and Sequoia Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, Conviction, Elad Gil, Evantic Capital, and Kleiner Perkins, allows us to expand these agents and scale the embedded legal engineering teams that build and optimize them alongside our customers.
Today, over 100,000 lawyers at 1,300 organizations rely on Harvey for critical work. What started as a tool is becoming core infrastructure, speeding up execution, improving coordination, and shifting focus toward higher-value outcomes. This funding allows us to continue leading the industry and defining the future of legal and professional services.
I am grateful to our customers, team, and investors for their partnership and shared belief in what we’re building.
Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eu-CgK_E
America's next-generation unmanned systems are being built in Huntington Beach. Mach Industries is building them fast.
Mach designs and produces unmanned systems — Viper, Glide, Stratos — for the US Army, United States Air Force, and USSOCOM. As their program portfolio expanded and flight test tempo increased, their engineers needed a way to ingest, compare, and act on test data across distributed teams without losing the traceability that active DoW programs demand.
Mach selected Nominal to run that infrastructure across their entire development arc: from early flight test through high-rate production at Forge, their manufacturing facility in Huntington Beach. Engineers now ingest flight and ground run data in seconds, compare across runs from a single platform, and catch anomalies before they compound across a growing fleet.
"National security depends on America's ability to field asymmetric capability faster than adversaries can respond. Nominal helps us compress the loop between test and production so we can do exactly that." — ethan thornton, CEO, Mach Industries
The teams moving fastest are the most disciplined about data.
🔗 Full press release in the comments.
