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Companies funded by Sequoia Capital

Storied venture firm backing seed through pre-IPO across software and infrastructure.

Ranked by current headcount across companies in Sequoia Capital's disclosed portfolio. Refreshed daily.

  1. 1
    Google· Mountain View, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 338.2k employees
  2. 2
    Oracle· Austin, Texas, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 200.3k employees
    • Founded 1977
  3. 3
    Cisco· San Jose, California, United States
    • Seed
    • 95.6k employees
    • Founded 1984
  4. 4
    Airbnb· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 69.2k employees
    • Founded 2007
  5. 5
    Flex· Austin, Texas, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 55.7k employees
    • Founded 1969
  6. 6
    ByteDance· China
    • Secondary
    • 47k employees
    • Founded 2012
  7. 7
    NVIDIA· Santa Clara, California, United States
    • Grant
    • 45.9k employees
    • Founded 1993
  8. 8
    PayPal· San Jose, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 36.6k employees
    • Founded 1998
  9. 9
    ServiceNow· Santa Clara, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 32.8k employees
    • Founded 2004
  10. 10
    Instacart· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 24.3k employees
    • Founded 2012
  11. 11
    University of California, Berkeley· Berkeley, California, United States
    • Pre-seed
    • 24.1k employees
    • Founded 2012
  12. 12
    LinkedIn· Sunnyvale, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 23.8k employees
    • Founded 2003
  13. 13
    Electronic Arts (EA)· Redwood City, California, United States
    • Private equity
    • 22.9k employees
    • Founded 1982
  14. 14
    Palo Alto Networks· Santa Clara, California, United States
    • Series C
    • 21.4k employees
    • Founded 2005
  15. 15
    Microchip Technology Inc.· Chandler, Arizona, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 17.4k employees
    • Founded 1989
  16. 16
    Ujjivan Small Finance Bank· Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 16.4k employees
    • Founded 2005
  17. 17
    Bolt· Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
    • Debt
    • 15k employees
    • Founded 2013
  18. 18
    Stripe· South San Francisco, California, United States
    • Secondary
    • 14.7k employees
    • Founded 2010
  19. 19
    Rappi
    • Debt
    • 14.6k employees
    • Founded 2015
  20. 20
    Remote· San Francisco, California, United States
    • Series C
    • 14.2k employees
    • Founded 2019
  21. 21
    Zoom· San Jose, California, United States
    • Post-IPO equity
    • 12.9k employees
    • Founded 2013
  22. 22
    Block· Oakland, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 12.9k employees
    • Founded 2009
  23. 23
    NetApp· San Jose, California, United States
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 12.7k employees
    • Founded 1992
  24. 24
    Nubank· São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
    • Post-IPO debt
    • 11.8k employees
    • Founded 2013
  25. 25
    [24]7.ai· Campbell, California, United States
    • Series unknown
    • 11.3k employees
    • Founded 2000

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Sequoia Capital’s portfolio is a curated bet on the next wave of category-defining companies. The list above ranks Sequoia Capital-backed companies by current headcount, drawn from public LinkedIn and Crunchbase records. With 957 matching companies in our index, the depth of senior engineers, founders, and operators is significant.

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