Sequoia Capital

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Activity in this selectionUnited States · Oct 23, 2026 · Oct 17, 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
1
All roles disclosed
New companies
2
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$266M
2 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Seed1
Series C+1

By primary sector

Defense tech1
Developer tools1

By country

United States2

Rounds

2 in this selection
Warhound

Warhound develops working dogs for military, law-enforcement and emergency-response teams.

$200MSeed
Participant
Blacksmith

Cloud infrastructure for building and testing software through continuous integration workflows.

$66MSeries C
Lead