Sequoia Capital

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Activity in this selectionFrance · Oct 12, 2026 · Jan 1, 2026

Sequoia Capital backs founders from the earliest stages of company formation through growth. Arc is its entry point for pre-seed and seed teams.

Arc is Sequoia’s twice-yearly open call for pre-seed and seed founders. The programme includes a four-day intensive focused on customer understanding, product-market fit, team building and growth strategy.

Sequoia can invest before a business has revenue or even a settled product idea. Its Arc materials describe backing NVIDIA as a founding team and Wiz before its initial idea was fixed, illustrating the company-formation stage at which a founder can engage.

Sources
Rounds participated in
2
Confirmed lead rounds
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2 roles undisclosed
New companies
2
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$240M
2 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series B1
Series C+1

By primary sector

AI1
Enterprise software1

By country

France2

Rounds

2 in this selection
Dust

Platform for deploying and orchestrating fleets of AI agents across enterprise teams and workflows

$40MSeries B
Role not disclosed
Pennylane

Provides financial management and accounting platform for startups, SMEs, and their accountants

$200MSeries E
Role not disclosed