Instinct
Develops a personal AI assistant that carries out everyday tasks through text and phone calls.
$1BSeries C
ParticipantSC
Sequoia Capital
sequoiacap.com ↗Activity from announced rounds
Activity in this selectionOct 24, 2026 · Consumer · 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
- 0 1 roles undisclosed
- New companies
- 2 First participation on record · 0 follow-on
- Funding in participating rounds
- $2B 2 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share