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.
A curated winners' slice of Sequoia Capital's book, scored the way a machine reads it — the highest quality and exemplar rate in the series, and the one that trails it on frontier agent-readiness.
Sequoia Capital has 116 portfolio companies tracked on the APIs.io network, of which 111 (96%) publish APIs indexed here.
Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Airwallex, Stripe, HubSpot, OpenAI, LinkedIn.
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 8 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 21 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 27 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 23 Limited public surface area
Emerging 18 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 13 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored
Rest of Portfolio
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Cohort brief
Auto-generatedThe 110 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.
| Facet | This cohort | Catalog | Difference | Scored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Quality | 43.6 | 17.5 | +26.1 | 110 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 34.8 | 17.9 | +16.9 | 110 |
| Operational Transparency | 27.9 | 11.3 | +16.6 | 110 |
| Access Clarity | 36.1 | 22.3 | +13.8 | 110 |
| Contract Governance | 14 | 6.4 | +7.6 | 110 |
| Discoverability | 65.7 | 60.4 | +5.3 | 110 |
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.
| Artifact | This cohort | Catalog | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP server (any) | 31% | 16% | +15 |
| MCP server (first-party) | 13% | 7% | +6 |
| Agent Skills | 0% | 0% | 0 |
| OAuth scopes | 25% | 9% | +16 |
| Security | 95% | 88% | +7 |
| Arazzo workflows | 19% | 2% | +17 |
| Governance rules | 46% | 13% | +33 |
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.
- 1 Stripe 83.2
- 2 HubSpot 82.4
- 3 LinkedIn 75.1
- 4 Attentive 73.4
- 5 Canva 69
- 6 Notion 66.9
- 7 Gong 66.4
- 8 ServiceNow 64.8
- 9 Zapier 64.6
- 10 fireblocks 64.2
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