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Sequoia Capital (Scout Program)

VC
Menlo Park, CAWebsite
Stage

Pre-Seed

Check Size

$50K – $500K

AUM

$56.0B

Portfolio

11+ companies

Team

27 partners

Investor activity
Last known investment: 2025Investments in last 12 months: 1

Investment Thesis

Sequoia Scouts write small pre-seed checks via operator/investor scouts; can be a path to later Sequoia attention.

Meet the Team

RB

Roelof Botha

Seed/Early + Growth

CC

Charlie Curnin

Seed/Early

GR

George Robson

Seed/Early

JG

Jim Goetz

Seed/Early + Growth

JC

Josephine Chen

Seed/Early

SZ

Stephanie Zhan

Seed/Early

BS

Bryan Schreier

Seed/Early

CS

Chandan Sharma

Director of Information Security

JB

Julien Bek

Seed/Early

LL

Laura Lin

Senior Investment Manager

PG

Pat Grady

Partner

KL

Kelly Liu

Director of Talent

JW

Jane Wei

Director of Operations

TX

Tony Xiang

Managing Director

CH

Craig Hernandez

Partner

VC

Vipin Chamakkala

Senior Director, Partnerships

KS

Kimberly Summe

Chief Operating Officer

DM

Dean Meyer

Seed/Early

SM

Shaun Maguire

Seed/Early

KB

Konstantine Buhler

Seed/Early

BC

Bill Coughran

Seed/Early

DL

Doug Leone

Seed/Early + Growth

LL

Luciana Lixandru

Seed/Early + Growth

LR

Lauren Reeder

Seed/Early

BB

Bogomil Balkansky

Seed/Early

JL

Jess Lee

Seed/Early

AL

Alfred Lin

Seed/Early

Industry Focus

Invests In

Other
Fintech
AI / ML
Security
Developer Tools

Portfolio Companies (11)

2025

AV

Avelios

Hospital information system·Early

2024

AG

Agency

Pre-Seed/Seed
AS

Aspora

Financial services for immigrant diasporas·Early

2023

AP

Apex

Security Platform for generative AI and LLMs·Pre-Seed/Seed
AN

Anterior

Pre-Seed/Seed

2022

AR

Arcwise

Low-code platform for data apps·Pre-Seed/Seed

2021

AB

Abby Care

Pre-Seed/Seed

2020

AI

Airtop

Pre-Seed/Seed
AI

Airtime

Pre-Seed/Seed

Other

ST

Stripe

Fintech

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