THE TRUTH ABOUT: Sequoia - Caught on Camera

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

How a Gen Zer built a $3.7 billion defense tech startup backed by Sequoia

Ethan Thornton launched Mach Industries at 19. Three years later, the startup is raising hundreds of millions and manufacturing autonomous defense systems.

Fortune · Sep 28

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

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.…

AAP · May 26