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How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 21:15 Tanay Tandon Um, and then we demoed the product to Alfred at Sequoia, uh, and, and the team there. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:06 Tanay Tandon And there are companies in the GC portfolio and, you know, Sequoia portfolio that are working on the insurance side of the problem.
We Turned Pre-Seed Into a $10 Billion Category | Gaurav Jain, Afore Capital
- ▶ 5:38 Gaurav Jain In fact, when Sequoia launched their most recent fund, they said, I guess we're now Presteed investors, too.
Why Coding is the Fastest Path to AGI | Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth
- ▶ 27:32 Jonathan Siddharth You might be curious, how is my portfolio at Neon different from Sequoia?
How Capillary Built a Culture That Created 50+ Founders | Aneesh Reddy
- ▶ 3:31 Aneesh Reddy So when we raised money, uh, from, uh, Sequoia Northwest, that was the time when we said, look, uh, let's, uh, let's set up a subsidiary in, in, in Singapore and raise it into, uh, into that.
- ▶ 1:01:36 Aneesh Reddy So, uh, the first time we raised, uh, big money from Sequoia Northwest, this is, I'm talking about, we went from a hundred to 400 people in about 18 months.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 10:15 Ashmeet Sidana Well, I think the most, uh, I wouldn't say 10 years, maybe a little bit more than 10 years, but the most obvious example is if you look at the evolution of a, of a firm like Sequoia Capital. 6 times in the scene
Is AI changing EVEN the Top Roles in startups?
- ▶ 37:03 Umesh Padval And at that time, one of the competitors I was competing with called C-cube Microsystem, a major investor in that was Don Valentine from Sequoia.
From -1 to 0: How Founders Navigate the Earliest Stage with Aditya Agarwal & Prateek Mehta | SPC
- ▶ 32:17 Aditya Agarwal Then Kleiner and then Sequoia did the most recent round, right?
What 20 Years of Investing taught Somesh Dash of IVP after backing Perplexity, Figma, Dropbox
- ▶ 49:56 Somesh Dash But if you hear what Mike Moritz at Sequoia or Bill Gurley at Benchmark said about it, they would do it again because they learned a lot about it.
- ▶ 1:07:10 Somesh Dash Blair runs it from Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 18:18 Sachin Aggarwal At that time, Sequoia Capital, you know, some of the big VC firms had
- ▶ 35:04 Sachin Aggarwal I know Sequoia was a big believer that container would become mainstream that quick, right?
What's Happening To VC In India w/ All In Capital, Peer Capital & Upekkha
- ▶ 33:48 Kushal Bhagia Like if a company is ready for Axel, Sequoia, Bloom today, then likely I'm already late.
How Accel Deploys $650M in India & Manages $5B in Growth + Late Stage | Prayank Swaroop
- ▶ 45:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think globally we have seen that happen in, in Sequoia US where, uh, Mike Moritz and, and, uh, the, the older guard were able to build the new, uh, partnership and nurture the new partnership.
2X SaaS Founder: How To Sell Global Tech Products From India | Sharath Narayana | Neon Show
- ▶ 20:39 Sharath Narayana Three weeks before demo day, we got an inbound from, um, Lightspeed and then Sequoia and then Nexus.
- ▶ 56:08 Sharath Narayana And even when we prepared our first deck, it was all the basics that what Sequoia talks about, right?
75 Minutes Of Pure Business Insights From The Man Behind BigBasket, BlueStone & HomeLane
Why Top Global VCs Are Eyeing India | Boris Wertz | Version One Ventures | The Neon Show
- ▶ 45:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Because it was a firm that everyone said could never become Sequoia or Axel.
Reverse Brain Drain, Reality Of Venture Capital And India’s Next 10 Year Explained By Top Indian VCs
- ▶ 1:07:24 Shripati Acharya And Sequoia, for instance, has been very good with that, right?
Wealth Creation For Employees Explained By Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor) I The Neon Show
- ▶ 2:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And previously you had briefed inside Bain Capital, Bridgewater, uh, in investing, and then a scout at Sequoia.
- ▶ 11:50 Sri Batchu And, uh, and so, you know, when I was, uh, leaving Opendoor Sequoia had introduced me to, to Instacart when I was leaving Instacart, um, you know, a lot of investors, but the connection was JD Ross, who's co-founder of Opendoor was an…
- ▶ 35:10 Sri Batchu Is Ravi Gupta, who, uh, is a partner at Sequoia on the growth side, and he was COO at Instacart, obviously was there during a tremendously important time to the company and, and had a lot of impact and was close to the board and Mike…
B2B SAAS Investors Discuss European And Indian Startup Ecosystems | ROI Ventures | Neon Show
- ▶ 45:44 Laura Raggl Yeah, I mean, but like, usually we see fans like Index, Acquire, and like the really big funds, they also back those companies, and I guess they will also just have some winners and some losers.
American Venture Capitalist Explains India’s BRIGHT FUTURE by 2030 | Bhaskar Ghosh | Neon Show
- ▶ 21:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I think, uh, people who reaped benefits, uh, were those that set up proper shops in India, like Sequoia earlier or Matrix or Axel.
UPI Struggle Story, India vs The World, BRAIN DRAIN Challenge I Sharad Sharma I iSPIRT I Neon Show
- ▶ 40:15 Sharad Sharma We get a message from Sequoia saying, John is coming to meet you on Thursday and Friday.
The India Opportunity, Youth’s BIGGEST Problem & Future of Startups | India Quotient VC on Neon Show
- ▶ 17:45 Anand Lunia And if you go to any big portfolio, so Sequoia, when they invested in WhatsApp, that vintage WhatsApp outcome will overpower every other winner.
- ▶ 1:04:47 Anand Lunia Now, of course, there was Bnext, there was Sequoia, Sequoia was leading the round, and we had very little,
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 1:59:16 Vijay Rayapati Yeah.
Wealth Creation, Life's Purpose, Brotherly Stories - Paras & Pallav on Building Global SaaS Products
- ▶ 22:21 Pallav Nadhani He was in, uh, India, Sequoia, uh, I think senior partner or one of the co-founders. 2 times in the scene
Sanjeev Bikhchandani on Finding Zomato & Taking the First Tech Company in India to IPO
- ▶ 15:29 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Back then, Westbridge Sequoia marriage was starting to happen in India.
- ▶ 42:11 Sanjeev Bikhchandani Uh, fifth round when Sequoia came in.
Podcasting to Investing: Breakdown of Our Journey | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 2:44 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And through one year of the podcast from 2018 to 2019, I got the theoretical side of it, where we recorded almost 50 plus venture capitalists on a podcast, including Sequoia,
- ▶ 15:59 Siddhartha Ahluwalia There was something that if a tier one VC is investing, then my opinion would get biased, like, if Sikowa is investing, can I be part of that company? 3 times in the scene
Understanding the Trillion-Dollar lending market in India ft. Rangarajan Krishnan
- ▶ 10:45 Rangarajan Krishnan And, uh, when they decided to exit, we had, um, Sequoia, which led the round. 4 times in the scene
How to Scale from $1M to $1B & Protecting Enterprises Cloud Data Ft. Jaspreet Singh, Founder: Druva
- ▶ 1:40 Jaspreet Singh What we built in the five years before that, even though we raised sort of series A seed money, like back in the one in 10, I keep a bunch of Indian investors first and then secure capital next to the 11. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:41 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Is it by, you know, interacting with people like, you know, Shelly and the same from Sequoia who are on your board?
The Process & Preparation of IPO Ft. Tracxn Technologies Founders Neha Singh & Abhishek Goyal
- ▶ 36:34 Abhishek Goyal You are also seeing in US that Sukhoi is now moving away from private only to also evergreen and sort of holding public liquidity.
Helping Startups Grow Through Engineered Organic Marketing Ft. Vaibhav Sisinty, Founder-GrowthSchool
- ▶ 29:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And how did the first round between Sequoia Owl and 80 Plus Angels happen?
- ▶ 31:30 Vaibhav Sisinty And then, uh, you know, I reached out to the third bucket and, uh, that's when Sequoia happened, right? 8 times in the scene
Scaling From 0 to 120Cr+ Revenue Playbook For SaaS-Entrepreneurs in India Ft. Yamini Bhat, CEO-Vymo
- ▶ 24:25 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And you never raised a round before your Sequoia five million round?
The BIGGEST Mistake Founders Make After Funding Ft. Rajiv Srivatsa & Nitin Sharma, Antler India
- ▶ 4:08 Siddhartha Ahluwalia He also built a team of thousand plus employees and raised hundred million from top global VCs, including Sequoia, Steadview, and Ratan Tata.
How A 23 year Old Created A $8M Yearly Revenue Content Marketplace Business ft. Anirudh Singla
- ▶ 28:51 Anirudh Singla That's what Doug Leonie from Sequoia actually says, right?
Leaving HUL to Building a D2C Food Brand ft. Shashank Mehta , Founder & CEO - The Whole Truth
- ▶ 1:41 Shashank Mehta He had just started up, and he raised his first Series A check from Sequoia, and he put out an email saying, uh, looking for entrepreneurs in residences, and that's the first time I had heard this word, and I was sold, that, bro, this is…
- ▶ 20:39 Shashank Mehta He had just started up, and he raised his first Series A check from Sequoia, and he put out an email saying, ah, looking for entrepreneurs in residence, and that's the first time I had heard this word, and I was sold, that, bro, this is…
- ▶ 53:32 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And your series A was with offer twelve million dollars led by Sikhoa last year. 2 times in the scene
Exotel’s Shivku on Failed Funding Round to Building $60 Mn ARR Saas Startup
- ▶ 44:03 Shivakumar Ganesan Uh, initially as a part of Sequoia as an investor in Nolarity.
Avlesh Singh on BUILDING WebEngage, 100 Cr Revenue Company & Being Resilient in the Last 10 Years!
- ▶ 5:04 Avlesh Singh He's now at Sequoia, right?
SaaS from India to the US: Myths Debunked ft Anand Jain, Co-founder, CleverTap
- ▶ 28:20 Anand Jain We had Axel and Sequoia that backed us during that time. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:59 Anand Jain I interact with a lot of early stage startup, uh, entrepreneurs, uh, sometimes, you know, it's through Sequoia or through Accel or generally people reach out to me on Twitter or on email.
The rise of crypto with 1.5 cr+ Indian investors ft. Ashish Singhal, Founder, Coinswitch
- ▶ 6:55 Ashish Singhal So all three of us have been friends for 14 years, me, Go and Wimel, uh, right from day one of college, uh, have been hackers, any hackathon in India that you can think of, we would have won it, uh, including Sequoia hack, Google code for… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:52 Ashish Singhal Uh, within the 10 days of us working together, Sequoia approached us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:39 Ashish Singhal Funded by the likes of Henderson, Horowitz, Coinbase, Tiger, Ribbit, Paradim, and Sequoia, like the, the best of the best fintech leaders in India and around the world.
- ▶ 11:54 Siddhartha Ahluwalia So you continued on that two million for three, four years, which you raised from Sequoia in 2017. 2 times in the scene
@firstcheque7252 CEO on Early Stage Investing and investments from founders ft. Kushal Bhagia
- ▶ 33:47 Kushal Bhagia So, um, see, honestly, my role is very different from a traditional VC role at a IQ or at a Matrix or Sequoia or any, you know, established fund. 2 times in the scene
Zetwerk founder on Pivoting, Funding and Building a Manufacturing Unicorn ft. Amrit Acharya
- ▶ 38:33 Amrit Acharya Over a three month kind of journey, we were able to speak to a lot of investors and we found great fits with Sasha who led our seed round at K and Sequoia joined our round. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:52 Amrit Acharya So we have, uh, Sequoia, we have Accel, we have Lightspeed, we have Green Oaks, uh, you know, the, um, uh, all, all of them, you know, supported the company when, when, when it was, uh, it was not the easiest decision for, for, I'm sure…
How @Wakefit became a 700 crore revenue D2C brand ft. Founder, Ankit Garg | The Neon Show
- ▶ 26:18 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, can you share till you, before you raised money from Sequoia in 2018, what were your yearly revenues from 2015 to 2018? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:49 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Sequoia was maybe the 32nd investor. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:59 Ankit Garg Uh, I think in 18, we started spending money in the late 18, and after raising money, I think one of the reasons that we, as I said, we raised on Sequoia was to actually experiment on the marketing money.
Fampay Founder on Fintech for GenZ and Funding ft. Sambhav Jain | 100x Entrepreneur
- ▶ 14:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And when did Sequoia round happened after YC? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:12 Sambhav Jain Um, million round, but it just happened that, uh, when we started having conversations, um, it, uh, everything that we were, we were just chatting about the different numbers and how, uh, even Sequoia is existing investors, uh, were keen…
Backing the best D2C companies with Debt & Equity Funding | Ashvin Chadha, Anicut Capital
- ▶ 34:09 Ashvin Chadha Um, we've then, we've got funding from Wind Green, uh, from Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
Founder and CEO of @WhitehatJr Karan Bajaj on his journey | 100x Entrepreneur Podcast
- ▶ 34:50 Karan Bajaj Sequoia, Nexus, Matrix, Lightspeed maybe, maybe the top five VCs, right? 2 times in the scene
@mamaearthindia1509 Founders on D2C growth, ft. Ghazal & Varun Alagh
- ▶ 17:00 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And at what milestone did you raise from Sequoia? 4 times in the scene
Making a crisis work for you with Sanjay Swamy & T. N. Hari
- ▶ 20:59 Sanjay Swamy Sequoia put out a thing, and most entrepreneurs from that generation will remember the story around those times, right?
- ▶ 26:08 Sanjay Swamy And, uh, Sequoia put out a, uh, thing saying, you know, end of the good times, right. 2 times in the scene
Inside the mind of Ashwini Asokan, Founder & CEO, Mad Street Den
- ▶ 14:38 Ashwini Asokan And so we ended up spending some time and this is where your Sequoia, infinity, your board, right?
- ▶ 25:31 Ashwini Asokan Um, but you know, Sequoia being Sequoia found us before anybody found us. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:11 Ashwini Asokan And, uh, and today, I mean, and Roy from Sequoia has been like this, this kind of, I don't know, I don't know what I would have done if I didn't have him.
Priya Mohan, Venture Highway on breaking the glass ceiling- being a woman leader in Venture Capital
- ▶ 43:11 Priya Mohan And I, I bet, uh, you know, uh, when Sequoia perhaps invested in by Jew, and then I've met by Jews, obviously multiple times, even before he invested in us, he's a special founder, right?
Inside the mind of Aloke Bajpai, Co-Founder & CEO, ixigo
- ▶ 43:47 Siddhartha Ahluwalia How has the, the post that the fundraising journey been with, you know, make my trip coming on board and then, uh, safe and, you know, secure. 4 times in the scene
Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures on taking SaaS companies from Zero to $10 Million ARR
- ▶ 25:03 Shruti Gandhi So our success is once they get a good round from the Excel or the Sequoia or other funds out there.
Naren Gupta on the journey of Nexus Venture Partners
- ▶ 15:28 unnamed speaker I think Excel and Sequoia have advantages to do enterprise technology in India.
Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital on Technical insights and building a fund for Engineers
- ▶ 10:28 Ashmeet Sidana Sequoia Capital recently led their Series A.
Ishpreet Gandhi, Stride Ventures on the emerging role of Venture Debt in the startup Ecosystem
- ▶ 4:02 Ishpreet Gandhi And, uh, 2015 was the time when actually, uh, while, uh, Sequoia was just entering Beera, that point of time, that was a series A transaction.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 35:00 unnamed speaker And so, um, they just continued to execute and, uh, hats off to Sequoia Capital and a number of other growth firms that got in there.
Inside the mind of Anand Chandrasekaran, on building 5 products with 10m+ users and angel investing
- ▶ 18:56 Anand Chandrasekaran Uh, and in the past they've raised money from Sequoia and Excel and others in India.
Pankaj Makkar, Bertelsmann India Investments, on Investing in Growth Stage Startups
- ▶ 4:42 Pankaj Makkar Uh, very strong partners for us like Accel, Sequoia, uh, Lightspeed, uh, Mayfield, and so on.
Blume Ventures: Sanjay Nath on Post Covid-19 Scenario for Startups & Building Future of Work
- ▶ 11:12 Sanjay Nath Sequoia sent out a framework, uh, you know, with those three cost scenarios, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:53 Sanjay Nath That we've seen shared by Sequoia and the others, which is a good one, which is, uh, you know, three scenarios across, and we are also developing our own, we're just coming up with the own framework and a matrix also that we'll roll out to…
Omnivore Ventures: Understanding Agritech From Mark Kahn’s Lens
Ishaan Mittal on how Sequoia India helps founders build high growth companies
- ▶ 0:41 Ishaan Mittal So I used to work at BCG, uh, right out of college, and, uh, having completed around two years at BCG, I got to know about this, uh, amazing analyst program that Sequoia runs through one of my seniors, and I decided to apply for it. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Nine years is a long time at Sekova. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia What made you come back to Sikora? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:33 unnamed speaker Well, uh, first of all, payments has been a extremely positive theme for us as Sequoia Capital globally.
Episode 55 | Inside the mind of Vidit Aatrey, Founder & CEO, Meesho
- ▶ 15:31 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And then Sikowa came in with a ten million round.
@unacademy founder on Building a 3 Billion Edtech Giant ft. Gaurav Munjal
- ▶ 20:57 Gaurav Munjal Then, then the next, next is, I think, uh, uh, of, of all, we, we, we have been lucky to get some of the best investors on board, whether that's Bloom, whether that's a SAFE, Nexus, or Sequoia, and, uh, and, uh, in the last round,… 2 times in the scene
Episode 52 | Anand Lunia, General Partner, IndiaQuotient
- ▶ 1:45 Anand Lunia That company raised again another round of VC money from Sequoia.
Episode 49 | Sanjay Swamy, Managing Partner, Prime Ventures
- ▶ 46:24 Sanjay Swamy And a tremendous respect for, uh, the scale at which a Sequoia, or an Accel, or a Lightspeed, you know, work with, or a Matrix, you know, people like that, Nexus, all these larger funds.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 13 | Rajul Garg, Founder and Managing Partner of Leo Capital
- ▶ 6:37 Rajul Garg I, I hired Lokvir, who was the CEO who sort of built the company over the 15 years between 2003 and 18, but I exited as a shareholder in eight, nine when Sequoia came in. 2 times in the scene
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 19 | Kunal Khattar, Founder and Managing Partner of AdvantEdge Founders
- ▶ 8:01 Kunal Khattar We were fortunate enough to build an, uh, an investment thesis and a proposition, uh, which resonated with the likes of Sequoia, and then with, uh, with Lightspeed and Times Internet.
- ▶ 27:19 Kunal Khattar Um, so we worked with Rajul, uh, on shuttle and, and we were able to raise subsequent rounds of capital from Sequoia and Lightspeed.
What is Founder DNA? Exaplains MamaEarth, Boat, Licious Investor, Kanwaljit Singh, Fireside Ventures
- ▶ 23:48 Kanwaljit Singh Recently, one of our companies got picked up by Surge, which is Sequoia's new platform.
The most common mistakes founders make ? w/ Sarbvir Singh, Waterbridge Ventures
- ▶ 5:44 Sarbvir Singh And the third thing that I'd say is that as we looked around, and this was actually more a later stage issue, which we later learned, is that even if you look at countries like US and China, where there were large funds, so the US already…
- ▶ 11:32 Sarbvir Singh And we are glad that Sequoia also saw the value in that and they've joined Umidyar and us along with AET from Japan.
100x Entrepreneur | Episode 8 | Sandeep Aneja, Founder and Managing Partner, Kaizen Private Equity
- ▶ 26:19 Sandeep Aneja We don't have the legacy of Kleiner Perkins or Sequoia, 30 years of investment history with Yahoo and Google and all these other companies in our portfolios.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 7 | Rehan Yar Khan, Managing Partner, Orios Venture Partners
- ▶ 2:32 Rehan Yar Khan Many funds, uh, Sequoia, Nexus, Tenaya, all kinds of funds have invested in that company after me.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 57:33 Karthik Reddy Nobody other than Sequoia and us believed that, so we ended up selling the business.
- ▶ 1:14:36 Karthik Reddy They'll have like Axel, Sequoia, Nexus, and multiple cool names to hang, uh, to deal with them.
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