Sequoia Capital

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Activity in this selectionOct 24, 2026 · Defense tech · Jul 27, 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
3
Confirmed lead rounds
0
2 roles undisclosed
New companies
2
First participation on record · 1 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$1.1B
3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series C+2
Seed1

By primary sector

Defense tech3

By country

United States3

Rounds

3 in this selection
Warhound

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

$200MSeed
Participant
Mach Industries

Builds advanced unmanned aerial systems and vertically integrated manufacturing infrastructure for modern defense

$600MSeries C continuation
Role not disclosed
Neros Technologies

Designs and manufactures autonomous and interceptor drones for military applications

$250MSeries C
Role not disclosed