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Sequoia too will happily invest in Canadian corporations 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we’ve decided to add Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation.
Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations.
ycombinator.com/blog/adding-ca…
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HUGE quarter for @SierraPlatform
I like to think the candian tuxedo tradition is all a big ploy to land the big 🇨🇦 banks as customers and @UWaterloo grads as FDEs
I like to think the candian tuxedo tradition is all a big ploy to land the big 🇨🇦 banks as customers and @UWaterloo grads as FDEs
Every quarter at Sierra, we celebrate the end of the quarter with Double Denim Day (or, as some like to call it, Canadian Tuxedo Day) 👖. This Q3, we needed a lot of denim to celebrate the most remarkable quarter in Sierra's 2.5 year history.
We added over $150M ARR this otal ARR beyond $400M. Remarkably, we added more ARR in one quarter than we had all of last year.
The most exciting thing to me is that our pace is accelerating. It took us six months to double from $100M to $200M ARR, and only five months to double from $200M to $400M ARR.
@claybavor and I are grateful to our customers and proud of the entire Sierra team.
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sorry man we’re actually looking to fill out the round with non-strategic angels. your experience is a bit too relevant
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we are happy @getserval customers & investors here @sequoia!! the company is absolutely crushing it
they prob have the highest ARR / follower ratio of any AI company so go toss them a follow!
they prob have the highest ARR / follower ratio of any AI company so go toss them a follow!
We raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation, led by @sequoia. Our third round in 12 months, bringing our total funding to $277M.
Our team has grown 10x in the last 12 months. We now serve Fox Corporation, WPP, Live Nation, Lucid Motors, and Ramp, and many of them are fully rms with @getserval.
AI coding tools have transformed how engineers work. Serval brings that same power to every team, so anyone can build governed automations across the systems they already use.
We’re hiring 500+ people over the next year and expanding in San Francisco, NYC, London, Austin, and beyond.
If you’re down to take on legacy enterprise systems and transform how teams work, my cofounder @AlexAtServal and I would love to meet you.
It’s Serval now.
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🚨🇨🇦🇨🇦🚨: Students & new grads in Canada are now eligible for No Limit (our pokerbot tournament)
$100K grand prize!!
$100K grand prize!!
UPDATE: We are able to expand eligibility for No Limit to university students in the U.S. and Canada.
(Plus recent grads from ’25 or ’26.)
Apply to the closest regional event. Registration now open.
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very cool concept from @formationbio!
exciting for us as shareholders and more importantly those who will benefit from drugs getting to market faster (i.e. all of us!)
exciting for us as shareholders and more importantly those who will benefit from drugs getting to market faster (i.e. all of us!)
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launch video is 🔥🔥🔥
call to all college students - No Limit (@sequoia poker bot tournament) signups are live!
epic chance to win a legit cash prize and meet some absolute legends at the finals 👑
details below!
call to all college students - No Limit (@sequoia poker bot tournament) signups are live!
epic chance to win a legit cash prize and meet some absolute legends at the finals 👑
details below!
Announcing No Limit: a bot building tournament hosted by @sequoia, @citsecurities and @OpenAI.
Teams of 1 or 2 get 60 minutes to build a pokerbot from scratch.
Agents play thousands of games across six scored rounds.
Open to university students and recent grads (‘25 or ‘26).
ittsburgh and the Bay Area in early November. Top five teams from each fly to the Finals. $100K grand prize.
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be like Isaiah (@ilboone)
> lead investment in one of fastest growing AI infra companies
> come out of twitter stealth with second ever post
> lead investment in one of fastest growing AI infra companies
> come out of twitter stealth with second ever post
@useblacksmith is a breakout company. thrilled to lead their series C
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LFG!! We @sequoia are so pumped to be partnering with Steven (@cultured) and @whop by leading this round with 🐐 @dougleone joining the board.
Whop is the best place for the exploding community of internet entrepreneurs to build their businesses. Every day they work towards their mission of delivering everyone a sustainable income.
It is a truly unique company in their pace of execution, breadth of platform and diversity of customers. We are SO bullish 🚀🚀🚀
Whop is the best place for the exploding community of internet entrepreneurs to build their businesses. Every day they work towards their mission of delivering everyone a sustainable income.
It is a truly unique company in their pace of execution, breadth of platform and diversity of customers. We are SO bullish 🚀🚀🚀
Whop has raised $200M in Series D funding at a $5.1B valuation, backed by @sequoia and @Shopify.
It really feels like we are barely touching the tip of the iceberg in a market larger than anyone can imagine.
We first launched Whop as a better way for us to sell sneaker bots, ypes of desktop software out there.
Total TAM? Probably $20,000 per day.
Who cares, tiny market.
But, what people discounted is the idea that there were actually 70,000 other markets exactly like that one.
Beyond the investment itself, I am especially excited to welcome legendary silicon valley investor @dougleone to our board of directors. Doug and the sequoia team are nothing but a brilliant, resourceful, and principled group of people.
My co-founder Cameron and I started building on Shopify when we were 13 years old. Shopify is one of the most impactful all-in-one cloud ecosystems ever created; @tobi has pioneered modern entrepreneurship the way we know it and we are thrilled to have him in our corner.
We have a tenet at Whop to be the dumbest in the room and I am very grateful that this has recently become a lot easier.
We are focused on markets, scale economies, and progressive media. If that is up your alley, please message me directly.
The $200M raised will support our expansion as we build economic infrastructure for the next century, continuing on our mission of delivering everyone an income.
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the vc group chats have done a hard pivot from "hot round" gossip -> ai infra stock group therapy
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We @sequoia are so pumped to be partnering with @MeckaAI to bring AI to the physical world
@joshavata and @jasontheutopian are creating the data & deployment layer for physical AI that will drive us to the robotic future we've imagined a century
excited to play a part in the journey with @biad_anas
@joshavata and @jasontheutopian are creating the data & deployment layer for physical AI that will drive us to the robotic future we've imagined a century
excited to play a part in the journey with @biad_anas
Today @MeckaAI is announcing a $60M Series B from @sequoia to accelerate the advent of general purpose robotics
This brings our total funding to over $120M to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI
Read more below 🧵
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@sequoia @MeckaAI @joshavata @jasontheutopian More on our thesis here! sequoiacap.com/article/partne…
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there’s not some grand conspiracy.
a bunch of people believed in a slowdown but didn’t want to take unilateral action cuz it would hurt them and not solve the issue.
they decided that the vibes had shifted and others would now prob follow them so they took action and were vocal about it.
they were right. others did follow them. we should all celebrate their cooperation.
a bunch of people believed in a slowdown but didn’t want to take unilateral action cuz it would hurt them and not solve the issue.
they decided that the vibes had shifted and others would now prob follow them so they took action and were vocal about it.
they were right. others did follow them. we should all celebrate their cooperation.
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truly shocking how lazy / disingenuous some people are willing to be
“We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.”
Dario makes the case to stop open source and concentrate enormous technological and economic power with Anthropic.
darioamodei.com/post/we-must-p…
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so excited @dittycheria of @MongoDB fame is joining us at sequoia!
great day for @sequoia founders. we're so lucky to have such a weapon on our team!
great day for @sequoia founders. we're so lucky to have such a weapon on our team!
Being a founder is one of the loneliest roles there is. Everyone's livelihood rides on your decisions, but no one else carries the same weight of responsibility. The hardest calls are made in isolation, and you own the outcome either way. The job is only getting harder. AI is changing what companies build, what small teams can do, how they reach customers, and the capital required to scale. The rate of change is accelerating, so the advantage goes to whoever learns and adapts fastest.
Yet the decisions that determine whether a company lives or dies haven't changed. Nailing product-market fit. Constructing an effective go-to-market engine. Building a cohesive leadership team that can scale. Knowing when to raise, and how to allocate capital you may never get a second chance to deploy. Get these wrong, and no technology saves you.
Few firms have helped founders answer those questions longer, or better, than Sequoia. For over fifty years, it has backed founders early and stayed with them as they built enduring companies. What's struck me most, though, isn't the track record. It's the institution. Sequoia has treated the firm as something to be perpetuated, not a vehicle for individual partners. It approached succession with unusual care and reinvented itself as markets shifted. That mindset is why it endured while firms that once stood beside it disappeared.
I've seen how they operate up close. My relationship with Sequoia goes back 16 years. I met Doug Leone in 2010, and for over 11 years I worked closely with Roelof Botha at MongoDB, where Sequoia was our largest investor. I saw firsthand how they behaved when we were winning and when we faced our hardest calls. The advice was thoughtful, the feedback direct, the support consistent. They understood that being a good partner doesn't mean always agreeing with you. It means being honest, staying engaged, and prioritizing the company's long-term interests.
After nearly three decades of building, leading, and investing in technology companies, I'm joining Sequoia as a Senior Advisor. As both an operator and an investor, I've lived through the questions founders face. Helping the next generation answer them is exactly where I want to spend my next chapter.
sequoiacap.com/people/dev-itt…
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