Sequoia Capital

Doug Leone joined Sequoia Capital in 1988 and ran the firm for more than two decades, first with Michael Moritz and later as sole global managing partner, expanding it into India, China, and Southeast Asia. His own investments included ServiceNow, Aruba Networks, and Nubank. He handed firm leadership to Roelof Botha in 2022 but continues to invest, ranking in the top ten of the Forbes Midas List in 2025 and 2026.

Jess Lee is a partner and chief product officer at Sequoia Capital, where she focuses on early-stage consumer companies and built the firm's product-minded approach to founder programs like Arc. Previously the CEO of fashion community Polyvore, acquired by Yahoo, she co-founded All Raise to expand the ranks of women in venture capital.

Jim Goetz is a partner at Sequoia Capital best known for leading the firm's investment in WhatsApp, where a roughly $60 million position returned $3.5 billion in Facebook's 2014 acquisition. He stepped back from Sequoia's leadership in 2017 but continues to invest and serve on boards, with a long enterprise track record spanning AdMob, GitHub and Palo Alto Networks.

Partner focused on seed and early-stage investments, particularly in AI-driven businesses with virtuous data cycles and intelligent algorithms. Driven by personal philosophy of being a committed partner to founders with integrity and determination.

Luciana Lixandru became Sequoia Capital's first Europe-based partner in 2020 and anchors the firm's London office, after making her name at Accel with early investments in UiPath, Miro and Deliveroo. The Romanian-born investor has appeared on the Forbes Midas List every year since 2021, reaching the top 20 in 2023 and 2024.

Pat Grady leads Sequoia Capital's growth investing practice and has backed a run of enterprise software standouts including Snowflake, ServiceNow, HubSpot, Zoom and OpenAI. A seven-year regular on the Forbes Midas List, he climbed to number 25 in 2026 as Sequoia's growth portfolio rode the AI wave.

Shaun Maguire is a partner at Sequoia Capital, where he has led or co-led the firm's investments in SpaceX, xAI, The Boring Company and stablecoin platform Bridge, acquired by Stripe in 2025. A Caltech physics PhD who previously worked at DARPA-backed ventures and GV, he jumped to number 22 on the 2026 Forbes Midas List and is one of the most outspoken investors on X.

A Sequoia partner focused on seed and early-stage investments in cloud infrastructure, developer tools, DevOps, and enterprise SaaS. Balkansky brings experience from VMware and Stanford GSB, and seeks entrepreneurs with iconoclastic thinking and charisma who challenge conventional wisdom.

Dean Meyer is an investor focused on seed and early-stage companies. After studying mathematics and computer science, he built a trading bot during college before joining a startup as a data scientist. He eventually transitioned into venture capital, opening the Tel Aviv office for a U.S. seed fund where he identified market opportunities in infrastructure, cloud, data, AI, and cybersecurity sectors.

George Robson is a Sequoia Capital partner focused on seed and early-stage investments. He studied economics at LSE and co-founded an accelerator while in school. After working at Morgan Stanley where he built a product line, he joined Sequoia during the COVID-19 pandemic. He seeks founders with grit and determination, with particular interest in climate and crypto sectors.

Josephine Chen is a partner at Sequoia Capital focusing on early-stage and seed investments. She brings background in immunology, translational oncology, and research at Genentech, combined with studies in protein targets and biomarkers. She is particularly drawn to founders pursuing product-market fit and immigrant entrepreneurs, and focuses on innovations at the intersection of biology, healthcare, and computer science.

An investor focused on early-stage and seed companies who identifies exceptional entrepreneurs with strong product instincts. Bek comes from an entrepreneurial background and previously spent time at a venture firm early in his career; he emphasizes sourcing founders who have demonstrated business building capability and seeks to be a transformative partner in their growth trajectories.

Lauren Reeder is a seed and early-stage investor at Sequoia Capital who comes from a background in product leadership at Segment and Twilio, and software engineering. She focuses on infrastructure evolution driven by LLMs and the changing landscape of AI-assisted work across industries.

Liam Corrigan is a Seed/Early stage investor who previously studied physics and research on the Cosmic Microwave Background. He was a competitive rower from age 14 to 26, culminating in an Olympic gold medal for the United States. He seeks to help founders pursuing greater purpose by being a consistent teammate through wins and losses.

Roelof Botha was PayPal's CFO before joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, where he backed YouTube, Square, MongoDB, and Unity and led the firm as steward from 2022. In November 2025 he passed the steward role to Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, staying on in an advisory capacity, and in June 2026 he joined the board of SpaceX shortly after its IPO. He appeared near the top of the Forbes Midas List throughout the 2020s.

A Stanford-educated computer scientist who grew up across Asia and was early to observe technology's transformative impact on developing economies. She was connected to OpenAI's founding in 2015 and is now a seed-stage investor at Sequoia Capital focused on ambitious founders building transformational companies, particularly in AI and infrastructure.