Sequoia Capital

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Activity in this selectionOct 27, 2026 · 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
72
Confirmed lead rounds
13
39 roles undisclosed
New companies
66
First participation on record · 6 follow-on
Funding in participating rounds
$36.7B
70 disclosed · full round size, not this investor’s share

By stage

Series C+32
Series B13
Seed9
Undisclosed8
Series A7
2 more
Growth2
Pre-seed1

By primary sector

AI20
Fintech9
Cybersecurity7
Healthtech7
Defense tech6
10 more
Enterprise software6
Developer tools4
Mobility3
Climate tech2
Hardware2
Industrial tech2
Biotech1
Business services1
Media & gaming1
Robotics1

By country

United States56
4
Germany3
United Kingdom3
France2
3 more
Israel2
Brazil1
Ireland1

Rounds

72 in this selection
Temporal

Temporal provides an open-source durable execution platform for long-running applications and AI agents.

$300MSeries D
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
ElevenLabs

Develops voice AI models and audio synthesis tools for enterprise and consumer applications

$500MSeries D
Role not disclosed
Waymo

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

$16BInvestment round
Lead
MITO AI

Collaborative AI platform for video creation and editing

$4.5MPre-Seed
Role not disclosed
RobCo

Develops AI-driven robotic systems for industrial automation and autonomy

$100MSeries C
Role not disclosed
Flapping Airplanes

AI research company developing more efficient model training, GPU execution and inference.

$180MSeed
Lead
Ricursive Intelligence

Builds a next-generation platform that closes the recursive feedback loop between AI models and t...

$300MSeries A
Role not disclosed
OpenEvidence

Provides AI-powered medical search engine for clinicians

$250MSeries D
Role not disclosed
Pennylane

Provides financial management and accounting platform for startups, SMEs, and their accountants

$200MSeries E
Role not disclosed
Skild AI

Building a unified robotics foundation model for controlling robots

$1.4BUndisclosed
Role not disclosed
Cyera

Provides a data security and AI governance platform helping enterprises control what AI can see and do

$400MSeries F
Role not disclosed