Sequoia Capital

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Activity in this selectionOct 24, 2026 · Oct 18, 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
2
All roles disclosed
New companies
3
First participation on record · 0 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$466M
3 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series C+2
Seed1

By primary sector

Defense tech1
Developer tools1
Fintech1

By country

United States3

Rounds

3 in this selection
Warhound

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

$200MSeed
Participant
Whop

Provides a platform for creators to accept payments, launch ventures, and engage with others

$200MSeries D
Lead
Blacksmith

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

$66MSeries C
Lead