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Encyclopedia > Sequoia Capital

Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. Venture capital is a general term to describe financing for startup and early stage businesses as well as businesses in turn around situations. ... Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1972 and was one of the original investors in Apple Computer (AAPL), Atari, LSI Logic (LSI), Oracle (ORCL) and Electronic Arts (ERTS). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1972 and was one of the original investors in Apple Computer (AAPL), Atari, LSI Logic (LSI), Oracle (ORCL) and Electronic Arts (ERTS). ... Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, in the Silicon Valley. ... Roelof Botha is an actuary. ...


Sequoia provided venture capital for Google, Aricent, Yahoo!, Paypal, Electronic Arts, YouTube, Ometric, Insider Pages and was one of the first investors in Cisco Systems, Oracle and Apple. Around 10% of the value of NASDAQ is made up of firms funded by Sequoia.[1] Google, Inc. ... Aricent, is a communications software company, offering a portfolio of software services and products for the communications industry (wireline, wireless, cable and satellite). ... Yahoo! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the internet. ... EA redirects here. ... YouTube is a popular free video sharing web site which lets users upload, view, and share video clips. ... Insider Pages [1]is a service that provides customer reviews of restaurants, beauty salons, spas, dentists, doctors, auto repair, real estate agents, attorneys, contractors and other service providers in your town or city. ... A Cisco ASM/2-32EM router deployed at CERN in 1987. ... Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is one of the major companies developing database management systems, tools for database development, middle-tier software (Fusion Middleware), enterprise resource planning software (ERP), customer relationship management software (CRM) and supply chain planning (SCM) software. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ...


Sequoia had made a good amount of money when Google agreed to buy YouTube for $1.65B. It is believed that Sequoia's $11M investment translated to 30% of the ownership.


External links

  • Sequoia Capital Homepage
  • New York Times article discussing YouTube's VC funding

  Results from FactBites:
 
SiliconBeat: Sequoia to invest in China? (1064 words)
Sequoia Capital, the well-known Silicon Valley venture capital that backed Cisco, Yahoo, Google and others, has reportedly raised a $200 million China fund -- a significant development for the firm that has long focused mainly on the U.S. and whose former leader has publicly dismissed China as being in the midst of a huge bubble.
Sequoia is famous for not responding to press inquiries, so we're unlikely to get any confirmation from them.
But Sequoia's leader Mike Moritz was in Israel on Thursday, and an interview was published today in TheMarker.com, in which we're told he said Sequoia will soon announce the fund.
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