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Sequoia Capital — 2016 Investments

15 investments dated 2016 · listed companies and verified rows first · show all

Snapsnapchat.cominNYSE: SNAPMay 2016

Snapchat is a mobile app for communicating with friends and family through photos and videos, featuring augmented-reality Lenses, creative sharing tools, and a personalized map for discovering places and content.

ConsumerCreator EconomyMedia & EntertainmentSocialSanta Monica, US

Evan Spiegel(Founder)inBobby Murphy(Founder)Reggie Brown(Founder)Tim Sehn(Executive Officer)Emily White(Executive Officer)inDerek Andersen(Chief Financial Officer)in

Co-investorsA-Rod CorpAccess Technology VenturesAlibaba GroupCapitalGCoatue ManagementEntrée Capital+40 more

Berkeley Lightsberkeleylights.comOct 2016 · $95M

Berkeley Lights (now Bruker Cellular Analysis) develops the Beacon optofluidic system for single-cell functional analysis, enabling researchers to profile live single cells to discover therapeutic antibodies, interrogate T cells, identify cell therapies, and accelerate cell line development.

BiotechDeep TechHardwareEmeryville, US

Ming Wu(Director)inIgor Khandros(Executive Officer, Director)

BoardMichael Marks(Director)inLip-Bu Tan Tan(Director)William Davidow(Director)

Board seatMichael Moritz· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsCelesta CapitalCota CapitalKhosla VenturesOpen Field CapitalShangBay Capital LLCWalden Catalyst+4 more

Wavefrontwavefrontllc.usOct 2016

Hosted platform for ingesting, storing, visualizing, and alerting on time series data.

Palo Alto, US

Dev Nag(Director)Pete Cittadini(Executive Officer)Robert Dunn(Executive Officer)

BoardBrian Melton(Director)Sam Pullara(Director)

Board seatBill Coughran· per SEC Form D

Co-investorsSpider CapitalTenaya CapitalSutter Hill Ventures

90 Seconds90seconds.comApr 2016

90 Seconds is a cloud-based video creation platform that connects brands with a global network of local videographers, directors, animators, and other creators to produce high-quality videos at scale.

AI & Machine LearningB2B MarketplacesCloud ComputingCreator EconomyEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSSingapore, SG

Mischa Malane(CEO and Co-founder)Tim Norton(Executive Director and Founder)Jake Davy(VP, Product and Co-founder)

Co-investorsAfterWork VenturesAirTree VenturesAlexander Geza Marcus PejacsevichBEENEXTLiquidity CapitalMars Growth Capital+5 more

Accendwithaccend.comin𝕏Seed · Mar 2016

Accend is an AI platform for financial institutions to automate business underwriting, onboarding, and risk assessment.

AI & Machine LearningFintechSaaSSilicon Valley, US

Pranjal Daga(Founder)inYutong Pei(Founder)inJoseph Zhou(Founder)inMario F. Spinella(Executive Officer)inJeffrey Scott Szorik(Executive Officer)

Co-investors645 VenturesAdverb VenturesY CombinatorAndreessen HorowitzFormulate VenturesGeneral Catalyst+2 more

Benchlingbenchling.comin𝕏Late Stage · Apr 2016

Benchling provides a cloud-based R&D platform for life sciences, combining a collaborative electronic lab notebook, structured scientific data modeling, automated workflows, and AI tools.

AI & Machine LearningBiotechEnterprise SoftwareSaaSSan Francisco, US

Sajith Wickramasekara(CEO)inAshutosh Singhal(Founder)Ashu Singhal(Founder)inCheng Kang(Founder)Cornelius Chen(Founder)Cory Liin

Co-investorsAlkeon InnovationAndreessen HorowitzArtisanal VenturesBalaji SrinivasanDraper AssociatesEnsemble Labs+31 more

CoreOScoreos.comin𝕏Apr 2016acquired by Red Hat · Jan 2018

CoreOS developed container-focused infrastructure software, including the lightweight Container Linux operating system, the etcd distributed key-value store, and the Tectonic Kubernetes platform.

Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SoftwareSan Francisco, US

Alex Polvi(CEO)inBrandon Philips(CTO)inGeoff Greer(Senior Software Engineer)inJoseph Schorr(Software Engineer)inMackenzie Burnett(Product Manager)inDerek Chiang(Independent Contractor)in

Co-investorsGV (Google Ventures)Intel CapitalKleiner PerkinsWork-BenchY CombinatorAccel+5 more

Dominodomino.com𝕏Nov 2016 · $10.5M

Domino is a home design and lifestyle media brand covering interior design, decorating, and stylish living through editorial content from design professionals and DIYers.

ConsumerE-commerceMedia & Entertainment

Co-investorsLaunchCapitalBloomberg BetaIn-Q-TelZetta Venture Partners

Good Eggsgoodeggs.cominJul 2016 · $8.5MAcquired

Good Eggs is an online grocery service that delivers fresh produce, groceries, and food products to consumers.

Direct to ConsumerE-commerceFoodTechMarketplacesOakland, US

Alon Salant(Founder)inRob Spiro(Founder)inGeorgina Bale(Co-founder)Bentley Hall(Former Chief Executive Officer)inKeith Brewer(Chief Executive Officer)Rodrigo Arevalo(Former Chief Executive Officer)in

Co-investorsBaseline VenturesCollaborative FundCorrelation VenturesDns CapitalDYDX CapitalFinistere Ventures+15 more

Mad Street Denmadstreetden.comSep 2016

Mad Street Den offers an enterprise AI platform aimed at improving business productivity and delivering measurable business outcomes.

AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSFremont, US

Anand Chandrasekaran(Founder)inAshwini Asokan(Founder)Marcus Colbert(Executive Officer)

Co-investorsAlpha Wave GlobalExfinity VenturesGlobal BrainKDDI Open Innovation FundRocketship.vcCrane Venture Partners+1 more

Nugitnugit.coOct 2016 · $6.8M

Nugit operates a Singapore-based analytics platform aimed at digital marketing teams.

Media & Entertainment

Dave Sanderson(Founder)inShasta Mangulabnan

Co-investors500 GlobalWavemaker Partners

Observableobservablehq.comin𝕏Pre-Seed · Dec 2016

Observable is a platform for creating interactive data visualizations, dashboards, and collaborative data analysis tools.

Data & InfrastructureDeveloper Tools

Mike Bostock(Founder)inMelody Meckfessel(Founder)

Co-investorsAcrew CapitalMenlo Ventures

Revolutrevolut.cominSeries A · Jul 2016 · $9M

London-based digital banking app offering multi-currency accounts, cards, trading and business accounts to 65m+ customers.

London, GB

Nikolay Storonsky(Founder)inVlad Yatsenko(Founder)inNik Storonsky(Founder)

Co-investorsAccess Ventures (New York)Aglae VenturesAlanda Capital Holding LimitedAlkeon InnovationAlpha Wave GlobalAMK Investment Office+59 more

Vixs Systemspixelworks.comOct 2016

Toronto

CHARLES FRANCIS GLAVIN(CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)ANDREW OLSON(Director)MICHAEL MICHALYSHYN(EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT & GENERAL COUNSEL)ARUN NETRAVALI(Director)MICHAEL JAMES ECONOMY(VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC ACCOUNTS)PHILIP CHARLES DECK(Director)

Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)Venture Ontario

Other

Tracked investments with no reachable website or further public details — typically companies that wound down, renamed, or were absorbed.

Pivotal Software

Rows marked “SEC filing” are inferred from directors named on the company's SEC Form D — public regulatory data, not a portfolio list published by the firm.