Sequoia Capital

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Sequoia Capital

Type	Private
Founded	1972
Founder	Don Valentine
Headquarters	Menlo Park, California, United States
No. of locations	6
Industry	Venture capital
Employees	~ 130 worldwide
Website	www.sequoiacap.com

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Randy L. Ditzler, Greg McAdoo, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Gaurav Garg, Michael Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme.

The firm has offices in the US, China, India and Israel. Sequoia has funded companies including Cisco Systems, Oracle and Apple.

[edit] Portfolio

Sequoia Capital provided venture capital for the following companies:

Name	First Invested	Description	Status
AdBrite	02004-07-26 26 July 2004	Sell advertising on their websites and blogs	Private
AdMob	02006-05-19 19 May 2006	AdMob is the world's largest mobile advertising marketplace.	Private
AMCC	01987-09-15 15 September 1987	Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, provides storage, embedded hardware and software solutions.
Amobee Media Systems	02005-01-07 07 January 2005	Leaders in Mobile Advertising Systems for Mobile Operators.	Private
Applabs Pvt Ltd	01999-01-01 1 January 1999	World's Leading Software Testing Company.	Private
Apple Inc.	01978-01-01 1 January 1978	Designs and manufactures consumer electronics.	IPO
Aricent	02006-09-01 1 September 2006	Independent communications software company.
Aruba Networks	02002-04-19 19 April 2002	Delivers enterprise network to users	IPO
Asia Media	02005-09-21 21 September 2005
Atom Entertainment	02000-01-14 14 January 2000	Distributes casual games, short films, and animations on the web.	Acquired by Viacom/MTV
Documentum	01993-10-18 18 October 1993	Enterprise content management.	IPO and later acquired by EMC
Electronic Arts	01982-12-06 6 December 1982	Distributor of computer and video games.	IPO
Eloan	01998-09-02 2 September 1998	Financial services company that offering home mortgage, home equity, and auto loans.	IPO
FirstSource	02001-06-13 13 June 2001	Provider of business process management services.	IPO
Flextronics	01993-06-29 29 June 1993	Worldwide electronics design, fabrication, assembly, and test company.	IPO
Google	01999-05-26 26 May 1999	Search Engine.	IPO
Idea Cellular	02006-11-27 27 November 2006	Offers cellular services, SMS services and mobile communication devices.	IPO
Isilon	02002-07-03 3 July 2002	Offers modular network storage solutions designed for large digital files.	IPO
LinkedIn	02003-11-07 7 November 2003	Online network that helps you find and be found by former colleagues.	Private
LSI Logic	01981-01-20 20 January 1981	Provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies.	IPO
Meebo	02005-12-15 15 December 2005	The web messenger that allows access to IM from anywhere.	Private
Mellanox Technologies	01999-06-01 1 June 1999	Provider of InfiniBand technology.	IPO
Meraki	02006-03-02 2 March 2006	Mesh wireless networking.	Private
Microchip Technology	01989-04-06 6 April 1989	Manufacturer of microcontroller, memory and analog semiconductors.	IPO
Netezza	02003-07-10 10 July 2003	Provider of enterprise data warehouse appliances.	IPO
Netscreen	01998-05-21 21 May 1998	Networking and security solutions.	IPO and later acquired by Juniper Networks, Inc.
NetApp	01994-09-23 23 September 1994	Provides an integrated solution that enables storage, delivery, and management of network data.	IPO
nVidia	01993-07-02 2 July 1993	Technologies for video cards, graphics cards, notebooks, workstations, and desktop PCs.	IPO
Paypal	01999-08-02 2 August 1999	PayPal lets you send money to anyone with email.	IPO and later acquired by Ebay
PixelWorks	01998-04-29 29 April 1998	Designs, develops and markets highly integrated system-on-a-chip solutions for broadband communications.	IPO
PMC-Sierra	01984-01-11 11 January 1984	Broadband communications and storage chips.	IPO
Pure Digital Technologies	02005-03-03 3 March 2005	Provider of digital imaging solutions for the mass market, including the Flip Video family of digital camcorders.	Private
Royal Orchid Hotels	02007-10-06 6 October 2007	Hotel chain catering to business travelers.	IPO
Silent Communication	02007-11 November 2007	Call completion services for mobile operators.	Private
Sourcefire	02004-01-16 16 January 2004	Network security.
Yahoo!	01995-04-05 5 April 1995	Web Portal.	IPO
YouTube	02005-10-21 21 October 2005	Hosts user-generated videos.	Acquired by Google
Yodlee	01999-10 October 1999	Online data aggregation and online Bill Pay service provider.	Private
Zappos.com	N/A	Online Retailer	Private

Sequoia profited well when Google agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65B. It is believed that Sequoia's $11M investment translated to 30% of the ownership.^{[citation needed]}