Sequoia Capital

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Activity in this selectionUndisclosed

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
8
Confirmed lead rounds
2
3 roles undisclosed
New companies
6
First participation on record · 2 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$18.3B
7 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Undisclosed8

By primary sector

AI2
Cybersecurity1
Defense tech1
Developer tools1
Healthtech1
2 more
Industrial tech1
Mobility1

By country

United States6
Germany2

Rounds

8 in this selection
RobCo

Develops AI-driven robotic systems for industrial automation and autonomy

UndisclosedPrimary investment and employee secondary transaction
Participant
Factory

Develops an autonomous software-development platform for enterprise engineering teams.

$200MFunding
Participant
Cymphony

An AI security platform maps workforce and agent access to company data so security teams can govern exposure.

$30MFunding
Lead
empirik.ai

empirik gives engineering teams an AI agent and live graph of their cloud, on-premises and SaaS estate to assess infrastructure changes before execution. It connects a proposed change to affected resources and services, calculates its blast radius, and routes a plan through approval, execution and verification workflows.

$21MFunding
Participant
Stark

Makes weaponised drones

€500MUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
Anterior

Anterior helps health insurers and delegated care organizations apply clinical AI to prior authorization, utilization management and other payer workflows.

$40MUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
Waymo

Waymo develops autonomous driving technology and operates a fully driverless ride-hailing service.

$16BInvestment round
Lead
Skild AI

Building a unified robotics foundation model for controlling robots

$1.4BUndisclosed
Role not disclosed