Sequoia Capital
also referred to as: sequoia
includes Sequoia Capital India
21 statements across 18 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 18 people on the record · first statement Oct 6, 2019 by Rajul Garg · said 180 times in 71 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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brought up most by Siddhartha Ahluwalia (60), Vaibhav Sisinty (8), Ashmeet Sidana (7), Raja Ganapathy (5), Ashish Singhal (5), Tanay Tandon (4), Sanjay Swamy (4), Rangarajan Krishnan (4)
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2026 15 mentions in 6 episodes 3 per episode
- Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
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2025 11 mentions in 7 episodes 2 per episode
- What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- 2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show
- From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
- 75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
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2024 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Wealth Creation For Employees Explained By Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) I The Neon Show
- Why Top Global VCs Are Eyeing India | Boris Wertz | Version One Ventures | The Neon Show
- Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- B2B SAAS Investors Discuss European And Indian Startup Ecosystems | ROI Ventures | Neon Show
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2023 17 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Podcasting to Investing: Breakdown of Our Journey | 100x Entrepreneur
- Understanding the Trillion-Dollar lending market in India ft. Rangarajan Krishnan
- The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- Sanjeev Bikhchandani on Finding Zomato & Taking the First Tech Company in India to IPO
- American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
- Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
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2022 23 mentions in 9 episodes 3 per episode
- Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
- How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva
- Leaving HUL to Building a D2C Food Brand ft. Shashank Mehta , Founder & CEO - The Whole Truth
- The Process & Preparation of IPO Ft. Tracxn Technologies Founders Neha Singh & Abhishek Goyal
- Scaling From 0 to 120Cr+ Revenue Playbook For SaaS-Entrepreneurs in India Ft. Yamini Bhat, CEO-Vymo
- The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
- How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- Exotel’s Shivku on Failed Funding Round to Building $60 Mn ARR Saas Startup
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2021 38 mentions in 9 episodes 4 per episode
- How @Wakefit became a 700 crore revenue D2C brand ft. Founder, Ankit Garg | The Neon Show
- The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
- Fampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ and Funding ft. Sambhav Jain | 100x Entrepreneur
- @mamaearthindia1509 Founders on D2C growth, ft. Ghazal & Varun Alagh
- SaaS from India to the US: Myths Debunked ft Anand Jain, Co-founder, CleverTap
- Zetwerk founder on Pivoting, Funding and Building a Manufacturing Unicorn ft. Amrit Acharya
- @firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- Backing the best D2C companies with Debt & Equity Funding | Ashvin Chadha, Anicut Capital
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2020 43 mentions in 18 episodes 2 per episode
- Ishaan Mittal on how Sequoia India helps founders build high growth companies
- Inside the mind of Ashwini Asokan, Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den
- Inside the mind of Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo
- Making a crisis work for you with Sanjay Swamy & T. N. Hari
- Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- @unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital
- Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
- 10 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 27 mentions in 10 episodes 3 per episode
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 23 | Raja Ganapathy, Co-Founder Spring Marketing Capital
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders
- The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- What is Founder DNA? Exaplains MamaEarth, Boat, Licious Investor, Kanwaljit Singh, Fireside Ventures
- 100x Entrepreneur | Episode 8 | Sandeep Aneja, Founder and Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity
- 100xEntrepreneur | Episode 7 | Rehan Yar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
- 2 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
Everything said about Sequoia Capital, oldest first
Oct 6, 2019 neutral
Apr 9, 2020 positive
Nov 2, 2020
Bajpai: ixigo reached 10-12 million MAUs spending under $5M on marketing
“In 2017, they saw the kind of traffic we built organically, right? I mean, we were at like 10, twelve million monthly active users, I think built without Spending even like five million dollars on marketing over the last six, seven years.”
Dec 7, 2020 positive
Asokan: Sequoia invested in Mad Street Den before it built a product
“Sequoia being Sequoia found us before anybody found us. We had registered the company and they already found us. And you know Yeah, people came, people spoke, and, you know, Xfinity, GrowX, they were all part of our early journey, and, you know, really early b…”
Mar 22, 2021
Mamaearth raised from Sequoia nearing 100 crore annual revenue
“And then Sequoia happened once we were closer to a hundred crore run rate which is where we saw, you know, them as a great partner who's got strong learnings around taking, you know, building companies from a hundred to a thousand crore kind of run rates.”
May 16, 2021
Aug 30, 2021 neutral
Aug 30, 2021
FamPay originally targeted a $25M to $30M Series A before expanding
“And on the quantum, we were actually not planning to raise such a big round. We were planning to really raise a little lesser, close to our 25 to 30. Million round, but it just happened that when we started having conversations it everything that we were just …”
Sep 27, 2021 positive
31 VCs rejected Wakefit over superficial TAM before Sequoia invested
“Until then, 31 customers, it was mostly like, how big is the market? Can you become a billion dollar unicorn? Can you do this? Like, it was all superficial numbers. Like, everybody was looking at, can this become a billion dollar company or not, right? But I t…”
Oct 4, 2021 positive
Nov 1, 2021 neutral
Traditional VC partners do at most three to five deals per year
“Most partners at Atta Sequoia, IQ, Accel, etc. Will do, right? Because they build deep conviction, they spend a lot of time with their companies, and after investing also, they'll take a board seat they'll talk to their companies once in two weeks at least, an…”
Nov 8, 2021
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Singhal: CoinSwitch became profitable following Sequoia seed round
“After the Sequoia round, we never needed the money because the company became profitable, solving the right problems of the user and kind of growing not the rapid pace that we have seen in Kubert, but kind of steadily growing across.”
Nov 8, 2021 positive
Singhal: Sequoia funded CoinSwitch within a week of approaching the team
“Within the 10 days of us working together, Sequoia approached us. They liked what we were doing. They liked the team. And you know, within a week or so, the entire funding happened and, you know we partnered with Sequoia and has worked with them for the past y…”
Dec 6, 2021
CleverTap Raised Two Venture Rounds With $0 ARR in 30 Months
“The first 30 months, we were building the core product. There was zero error in the company. And guess what? We raised two rounds of funding during that time. So we had some very good investors. We had Axel and Sequoia that backed us during that time.”
Sep 12, 2022 positive
Nov 7, 2022
Sequoia Capital requested Jaspreet Singh move to the Bay Area in 2012
“We got funded by Sequoia and Sequoia actually requested that while we sort of really narrow down our product market fit and refine it, like they requested if I could relocate to Bay Area and this whole new thing called cloud is happening. I should give it a th…”
Jul 14, 2023
Nov 3, 2023 neutral
Lunia: India Quotient passed on MPL due to insufficient ownership allocation
“One of the companies that I really missed was MPL. Sai, we had funded his previous company. This Creo, the hardware phone, smartphone, right? And he came back and he raised a five million round. Now, of course, there was Bnext, there was Sequoia, Sequoia was l…”
Nov 12, 2025 neutral