Thank you Michal Lev-Ram for spending time getting to know Sequoia ... and for bringing rugby – and all the lessons it has to offer – to FORTUNE readers.

Applications for @Sequoia Arc Fall '24 are open for a few more weeks! Arc synthesizes @Sequoia’s 50+ years of experience partnering with legendary companies into workshops led by Alfred Lin, Bogomil Balkansky, Vickie Peng & more. You also get to hear lessons directly from top

Jess Lee Sequoia Capital Alfred Lin Bogomil Balkansky Vickie Peng Jess Lee: Simply amazing to see how well Sequoia Capital 's Arc program is doing. Thanks to you and the Arc team for everything you do for early stage founders. @ aspiring founders: Better take this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity seriously. Apply Now!

Sequoia is running an accelerator for exceptional founders Apply to be in the next batch of Arc at the link below! 🌲🌲🌲🌲🚀🚀🚀🚀

A few days left to apply to Sequoia Capital 's Arc program. It is here to support the creative spirits, underdogs, and independent thinkers. What exactly will you learn? Ali Khayam from Chkk says it best: linkedin.com/pulse/my-sequo…

Listen to an all new episode of Training Data feature Sierra co-founder Clay Bavor Available here or wherever you listen to podcasts: YouTube: seq.vc/0vw Spotify: seq.vc/794

In the Season 2 premiere of Crucible Moments from @Sequoia, we spoke to fred_luddy and Frank Slootman about ServiceNow’s hard-won path to becoming a category-defining company, and how they nearly made a $150B+ mistake by selling too early. Listen now: seq.vc/pj0

1/ Little did we know when we partnered with ServiceNow how important this small detail in our original investment memo would become. It led to one of the most unique stories of my career and an incredible journey for the ServiceNow team.

1/ my partners Sequoia Capital like to tell a story about how we had this brilliant SaaS thesis that led us to Fred Luddy, founder of ServiceNow... but the truth is that we pinged him because it was a company, and my job was to find companies. here is the actual CRM record, starting

ServiceNow is a $170B company that almost nobody has heard of This is the incredible backstory into how my partner Pat Grady used sheer hustle to invest in the company But of course none of this would matter if Fred Luddy and the ServiceNow team weren’t legendary builders

Most of my "obvious" investments haven't panned out. Teams with shiny backgrounds. Competitive round dynamics. Going after an apparent market opportunity. Alpha comes from the non-obvious tailwind, or a team that look atypical. And from taking risks other VCs aren't willing to.

When I worked at VMware almost two decades ago, we talked a lot about #backup. And when I met Ofir Ehrlich for the first time, my question was: "How is backup possibly not solved in 2024"? sequoiacap.com/article/partne…

I've been waiting for AI to disrupt the traditional BI market with a "talk to your data" product for a long time. sridhar told us about how SnowflakeDB is using system design and engineering to bring "talk-to-your-data" LLM accuracy from 45% (out of the box) to 90%.

So proud of my better half Amanda_robs — not only did she build this site, but she’s launched a fund backing early-stage technical founders with all the key features that matter. Community & GTM focused, founder-first, and beautifully done. Can’t wait to see you crush it!

In security, giants show up after tech shifts Cloud (2006)→Wiz (2020) SOC 2 (2010)→Drata (2021) DevOps (2008)→Snyk (2015) AI’s moving faster than any shift before—bigger attack surface & smarter attacks 4 areas I want to see startups: Full post - mtfrobby.substack.com/p/ai-vs-ai-the…

Heading to #RSA? Here’s where the puck is headed in cybersecurity with some of the most exciting areas where first mover founders are building incredible solutions, by Amanda_robs at Modern Technical Fund Modern Technical Fund #RSAC #RSA2025 RSAConference

My wife Robby didn’t just raise a $22M fund. She built MTF to back the ones who don’t fit the mold—because she never did either. Conviction over consensus. Raw edge over polish. Hustle over everything. This is what real venture looks like. 👉 upstartsmedia.com/p/amanda-robso…

Today, we're excited to announce our latest fundraise and launch of our new product, Dispatch. 217 days ago, we asked ourselves if load boards, our core business, would exist in 5 years with AI. The answer was no.

🤖🔒Amazing AI x Security panel at Connected Stack! ⚡Varun Endor Labs: AI will remediate sec issues 🔍Filip Verkada: AI search = superpowers 🙌Isaac Semgrep: bye-bye false positive fatigue 🕵️Rich Veza: what “identities” are in the agent era Huge 👏 to True Ventures

So excited to partner with @metalbearco on their $12.5M seed alongside TLV Partners and TQ Ventures🐻 @Aviramyh Eyal Bukchin & team are deeply technical and have built a DevOps platform that lets team ship code at the pace of AI🚀 More on why I invested👇 mtfrobby.substack.com/p/metalbear-ra…