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Sequoia CapitalVC firm · US215cheques in 12 months2088all time88ledCompanies they are listed as backing
Portfolio
23andMeAMP Robotics
Alkira
All Raise
AndpadArmis Security
Attentive
Biofourmis
BitCloutCapitolis
CaptivateIQ
Census
Clari
CopyAI
Cresta
Cribl
Docket
Doppler
Eduvanz
Faire
Fetch
Found
Gather- Gong
Grafana Labs
Graphcore
Graphiant
Instacart
Ironclad- Joro
Kalshi
Kingdom Supercultures- Klarna
Kumo.AI
LandSpace- Linear
36 of 97 companies.
Where they are named on record
Filings
- SEC Form D · Company raisingRaintank Inc.Directoron 5 filings · since 2021
- SEC Form D · Company raisingSalt Security, Inc.Directoron 2 filings · since 2021
- SEC Form D · Company raisingAurora Innovation, Inc.Directorsince 2021
- SEC Form D · Company raisingGong i.o Ltd.Directorsince 2020
- SEC Form D · Company raisingSnowflake Inc.Directoron 4 filings · since 2020
- SEC Form D · Company raisingPivotal Software, Inc.Directorsince 2016
- SEC Form D · Company raisingGoPivotal, Inc.Directorsince 2013
Each row is a document a firm filed with a regulator: somebody signed it, and it carries a date.
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#149 Co-CEO Workday, Carl Eschenbach: A Life of Significance
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Guest: Carl Eschenbach, co-CEO of Workday When Carl Eschenbach decided to leave VMWare after more than 14 years as COO, no one believed it: Not chairman Joe Tucci, not CEO Pat Gelsinger, and maybe not Carl himself. But he needed a more predictable work-life balance to help raise his teenage… More on the show's page
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Carl Eschenbach is a Partner @ Sequoia Capital , one of the world's leading funds with investments in the likes of Google, Apple, Whatsapp, Paypal and Stripe just to name a few. As for Carl, prior to Sequoia, Carl was President and CEO @ VMWare where he grew the team from 200 to 20,000 people. If… More on the show's page
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ServiceNow ft. Frank Slootman and Fred Luddy - From Starting Over at 50 to Dodging a $150B Mistake
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