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Sequoia Capital

183 articles accelerating

A reported $7B fundraise in April 2026 preceded Sequoia-led bets on AI cybersecurity, nuclear power for data centers and Kalshi’s proposed $750M-plus round.

Who they are

Sequoia Capital appears in this coverage as a venture investor and fund manager, chiefly through financings, portfolio-company milestones and occasional internal leadership or organizational developments. Its stories link it to startups from Stripe, Instacart and ByteDance to newer companies in AI, cybersecurity and energy infrastructure.

The recent arc

The latest coverage peaks in 2026 Q3, when Sequoia returned to the center of several large or strategically pointed financings: it led Valar Atomics’ $1B Series B for small modular reactors intended to power data centers, led Corma’s $60M seed round for defensive-cybersecurity AI, and was reported to be co-leading Kalshi’s $750M-plus raise with Wellington Management. Empirik’s $21M seed and spinout from Sequoia extended that run into enterprise IT operations.

The phase shift began with Bloomberg’s April report that Sequoia had raised about $7B for a new fund, its first fundraising under new leadership. Recent stories therefore frame the firm less through mature portfolio exits and more through renewed fund capacity, direct early-stage backing and exposure to infrastructure demands tied to AI.

The tension

Coverage centers on whether Sequoia can turn a newly replenished capital base into ownership of the technologies and platforms benefiting from the AI buildout, while sharing or contesting rounds with other powerful investors. Wellington Management appears alongside Sequoia in the reported Kalshi financing, and Andreessen Horowitz appears with it in the reported Cathedral round, illustrating a market in which marquee firms both compete and co-invest for consequential companies.

Why it matters

If this trajectory continues, Sequoia’s influence will be measured not only by conventional software investing but by its ability to finance the stack around AI: secure enterprise systems, reliable IT operations and the power infrastructure needed for data centers. The reported fundraise gives that strategy potential scale, but the outcomes remain uncertain because several recent financings, including Kalshi and Cathedral, were reported rather than confirmed.

Sequoia Capital has appeared in 183 articles since 2006-02. Coverage peaked in 2026Q3 with 7 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Sequoia, TechCrunch, Google, China.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-09-02
TechCrunch 2 related

Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital

2026-09-01
TechCrunch 1 related

Empirik, which uses AI to predict and prevent IT outages by analyzing system changes and their effects, raised a $21M seed and spins out from Sequoia Capital

Before joining Sequoia Capital in 2020 as chief digital and information officer, Avon Puri spent over a decade running infrastructure at Rubrik and VMware.

2026-08-12
The Information 14 related

Sources: Kalshi is in advanced talks to raise $750M+ co-led by Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management at a $40B valuation; Kalshi was valued at $22B in May

Kalshi, the biggest prediction market, is in advanced talks to raise at least $750 million in a new financing round at a $40 billion valuation …

2026-08-11
Fortune 4 related

Tel Aviv- and San Francisco-based Corma, which develops AI models for defensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with a $60M seed led by Sequoia Capital

2026-08-10
Fortune 4 related

Tel Aviv- and San Francisco-based Corma, which develops AI models for defensive cybersecurity, emerges from stealth with a $60M seed led by Sequoia Capital

2026-08-03
Bloomberg 5 related

Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation

Sequoia Capital led a $1 billion funding round for Valar Atomics Inc. that the nuclear startup says will help it shift from demonstrating small reactors to producing them in volume.

2026-04-17
Bloomberg 7 related

Sources: Sequoia raised ~$7B for a new fund, the first fundraising round under its new leadership; the firm's last expansion fund was a $3.4B vehicle in 2022

Sequoia Capital, one of the largest and most prominent venture capital firms, has raised about $7 billion for a new fund according …

2026-02-18
Financial Times 12 related

Sources: Ineffable Intelligence, founded by former Google DeepMind Principal Scientist David Silver, is raising a $1B seed led by Sequoia at a ~$4B valuation

Sequoia Capital leading funding deal for David Silver's start-up Ineffable Intelligence at $4bn valuation

2025-09-29
Bloomberg 5 related

London-based Evantic Capital, founded by ex-Sequoia VC Matt Miller, raised a $400M fund, with ~12.5% coming from 135 “legends”, including CEOs, a novel strategy

Matt Miller left Sequoia Capital last December and, like many longtime venture capitalists, chose to start his own fund.

2025-09-08
Bloomberg 3 related

AI audio startup ElevenLabs launches a tender offer to let staff sell up to $100M in stock at a $6.6B valuation, up from a $3.3B valuation in January 2025

The tender offer for the voice-generating AI startup is being led by Sequoia Capital and Iconiq Growth.

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Sequoia Capital has appeared in 204 tech news articles since May 2007. The biggest stories include a16z captured 18%+ of all venture capital allocated in the US in 2025 and now manages... and Sequoia Capital profiled as a feisty, decisive, luxury-eschewing band of outsiders. Frequently covered alongside Sequoia Capital India, TechCrunch, Sequoia, Sequoia Capital China, and Manish Singh. Coverage has shifted toward funding themes and away from enterprise, safety.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -33pts; safety -33pts; research -33pts
2024Q3research +40pts; funding -60pts; regulation +20pts
2024Q4research -40pts; funding -40pts; regulation -20pts

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