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
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API Evangelist Portfolio Report
The Sequoia Capital API Portfolio

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.

Read the report $750.00 · every API-bearing company in the book, scored on the Kin Score
Portfolio Strength across 111 profiled portfolio companies on the network
35 top-rated API companies 16 exemplar · 19 strong
50 agent-ready companies 4 agent-native · 46 agent-ready
Average quality of the book:
Composite thin 41.7
Agent-Readiness agent-aware 28.5

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 111 (96%) publish APIs indexed here.

Its highest-rated API providers on the network are Stripe, Zapier, Notion, HubSpot, Figma.

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 19 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 25 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 23 Limited public surface area
Emerging 12 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 16 Almost no public developer surface

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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
accessModel:
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  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: >-
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created: '2026-05-02'
modified: '2026-07-17'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
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/