Roelof Botha
Partner at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco, CA
Writes $1M – $200M checks · typically $10M
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About
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.
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At Lord's to watch the ODI between England and India. 🏏 https://t.co/Grz5OJkeOM
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Game on! https://t.co/v0HHUShwhm
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Science fiction -> science fact https://t.co/BczAUcf1ea
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Invests in
ConsumerDeep TechEnterprise SoftwareFintechHardwareSaaS
Deals · 7
Blues WirelessBoard seat
via Sequoia Capital · filed Jul 2025 · $8M raise
Ethos TechnologiesBoard seat
via Sequoia Capital · filed May 2021 · $202M raise
SquareBoard seat
via Sequoia Capital · filed May 2021 · $10.7M raise
23andMeBoard seat
via Sequoia Capital · filed Aug 2018 · $300M raise
WeeblyBoard seat
via Sequoia Capital · filed Aug 2016 · $4.2M raise
Plain VanillaBoard seat
via Sequoia Capital · filed Jun 2015 · $26.9M raise
MongoDBBoard seat
via Sequoia Capital · filed Jan 2015 · $100M raise
Attribution from SEC filings, press coverage, and firm rosters.
Podcasts & interviews
featuring Roelof BothaSequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha & Axios’ Dan Primack
Axios
Lessons from 20 Years of Venture Capital (Roelof Botha, Managing Partner at Sequoia Capital)
The Generalist
View From The Top with Roelof Botha, Managing Partner of Sequoia Capital
Stanford Graduate School of Business
How Sequoia Capital’s Roelof Botha is forging the future
Goldman Sachs
Colleagues at Sequoia Capital
Network7
Investors connected to Roelof in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.