Venture Capital

Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is one of the world's leading venture capital firms, founded by Don Valentine in 1972 and headquartered at 2800 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California. Sequoia partners with founders from idea to IPO and beyond, investing across seed, early, and growth stages, and has backed transformative companies including Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco, NVIDIA, PayPal, YouTube, Airbnb, Stripe, WhatsApp, Instagram, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Reddit. Its stated mission is to "help the daring build legendary companies," with a current focus on artificial intelligence and AI agents, autonomous systems, fintech, developer tools and infrastructure, healthcare, and consumer technology. Following its 2024 restructuring, Sequoia operates primarily across the US and Europe, while its former India/SEA and China arms became the independent firms Peak XV Partners and HongShan. This profile tracks Sequoia's identity and its portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.

116 portfolio companies 111 publish APIs here 13 properties
Venture CapitalSeedEarly StageGrowth EquityArtificial IntelligenceFintechDeveloper ToolsInfrastructureUnited StatesGlobal
Portfolio Strength across 93 profiled portfolio companies on the network
31 top-rated API companies 16 exemplar · 15 strong
44 agent-ready companies 5 agent-native · 39 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 44.9
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 27.8

Firms are ranked by cumulative portfolio strength — how many highly-rated API companies they've backed, weighted by tier across composite quality and agent-readiness. The averages below are a secondary read on the typical company in the book.

Sequoia Capital has 116 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 93 (80%) publish APIs indexed here. The remaining 18 are tracked as profiles without a published API on the network.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Airwallex, Stripe, HubSpot, OpenAI, Snowflake.

Portfolio on the Network

Portfolio companies that publish APIs indexed on APIs.io, grouped by their API Evangelist rating. Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 16 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 15 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 27 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 19 Limited public surface area
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 4 Almost no public developer surface

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Team

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Firm

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Other

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Cohort brief

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The 101 portfolio companies with APIs in the catalog, backed by Sequoia Capital, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
101
of 111 on the roster
Mean Kin Score
43.3
+18.9 vs catalog 24.4
Mean Agent Readiness
26.5
+13.8 vs catalog 12.7
Spread
1.5–91.4
median 43.1 · σ 21.3
How the 101 split by band
Exemplar 16Strong 15Developing 27Thin 19Emerging 17Minimal 7
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 45.8 20.4 +25.4 101
Operational Transparency 36.5 14.4 +22.1 101
Developer Ergonomics 43.3 23.8 +19.5 101
Access Clarity 46 27.2 +18.8 101
Contract Governance 14.8 6.6 +8.2 101
Discoverability 65.5 61.5 +4 101

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 29% 11% +18
MCP server (first-party) 31% 13% +18
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 33% 12% +21
Security 100% 96% +4
Arazzo workflows 20% 2% +18
Governance rules 49% 13% +36

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Airwallex 91.4
  2. 2 Stripe 87.9
  3. 3 HubSpot 87.5
  4. 4 OpenAI 82.9
  5. 5 Snowflake 80.5
  6. 6 Confluent 79.1
  7. 7 GitHub 77.2
  8. 8 Klarna 76.6
  9. 9 Attentive 75.8
  10. 10 Doordash 75.8
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Zapier 65.1
  2. 2 Canva 63.3
  3. 3 GitHub 62.6
  4. 4 Airwallex 61.6
  5. 5 MongoDB 59
  6. 6 Stripe 58.3
  7. 7 Clari 58
  8. 8 Figma 54.7
  9. 9 Zoom 54.6
  10. 10 Notion 52.3
This roster declares 111 members; 106 resolve to a provider in the catalog and 101 carry a score (95%). The figures above describe the scored members only.Generated from the catalog build of 22 September 2026, across 27674 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: sequoia-capital
name: Sequoia Capital
description: >-
  Sequoia Capital is one of the world's leading venture capital firms, founded
  by Don Valentine in 1972 and headquartered at 2800 Sand Hill Road in Menlo
  Park, California. Sequoia partners with founders from idea to IPO and beyond,
  investing across seed, early, and growth stages, and has backed transformative
  companies including Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco, NVIDIA, PayPal, YouTube,
  Airbnb, Stripe, WhatsApp, Instagram, DoorDash, Snowflake, and Reddit. Its stated
  mission is to "help the daring build legendary companies," with a current focus
  on artificial intelligence and AI agents, autonomous systems, fintech,
  developer tools and infrastructure, healthcare, and consumer technology.
  Following its 2024 restructuring, Sequoia operates primarily across the US and
  Europe, while its former India/SEA and China arms became the independent firms
  Peak XV Partners and HongShan. This profile tracks Sequoia's identity and its
  portfolio graph across the API Evangelist network.
x-type: venture-capital
x-category: Venture Capital
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/sequoia-capital.png
tags:
  - Venture Capital
  - Seed
  - Early Stage
  - Growth Equity
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Fintech
  - Developer Tools
  - Infrastructure
  - United States
  - Global
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sequoia-capital/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://www.sequoiacap.com/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-companies/
  - type: Portfolio
    url: portfolio/sequoia-capital-portfolio.yml
  - type: Team
    url: https://www.sequoiacap.com/our-team/
  - type: Team
    url: team/sequoia-capital-team.yml
  - type: Blog
    url: https://www.sequoiacap.com/stories/
  - type: Podcast
    url: https://www.sequoiacap.com/podcasts/
  - type: Jobs
    url: https://jobs.sequoiacap.com/jobs
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sequoia-capital/
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/sequoia
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/sequoia-capital
  - type: Crunchbase
    url: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/sequoia-capital
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/sequoia-capital-domain-security.yml
  - type: Features
    data:
      - "Stage: Seed, Early, Growth"
      - "Sectors: artificial intelligence, fintech, developer tools, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer, space"
      - "Geography: United States, Europe (global heritage)"
      - "Founded: 1972"
      - "Founder: Don Valentine"
      - "HQ: 2800 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA"
    sources:
      - https://www.sequoiacap.com/
      - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Capital
    updated: '2026-07-17'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
  - FN: APIs.json
    url: http://apisjson.org
  - FN: Sequoia Capital
    url: https://www.sequoiacap.com/

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