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3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash Jan 7, 2025 · 2 mentions

How he hit $2m ARR in 24 months for Ecommerce Support SaaaS, Raised at $20m valuation Feb 15, 2023 · 12 mentions

  • ▶ 0:12 unnamed speaker He raised a two million pre-seed round back in 2020 at a twenty million post from Sequoia, now raising a five million seed.
  • ▶ 3:04 Amit RG I did raise, uh, two million dollars from Sequoia at a twenty million dollar valuation. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:36 Amit RG I just did a call with one of the partners, and I made my Sequoia partner write to him, saying that if you need reference on Amit, then, you know, he's a stand-up dude. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:02 unnamed speaker He raised a two million pre-seed round back in 2020 at a twenty million post from Sequoia, now raising a five million seed.

How Clickup Bootstrapped to $25m, Then Decided to Go All In and Raise $530m to Take on Giants Nov 4, 2022 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:42 unnamed speaker I was in a basketball league, and I remember we had a meeting with Sequoia, because the guy was on my basketball team. 2 times in the scene

How much revenue do Jason and SaaStr make? Aug 25, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 22:30 Jason Lemkin And that's why the Sequoias and others have insane returns because they're not even playing the same game and it is a game and you've got to lean into it.

How he acquired a SaaS startup for $1 (now $14m in revenue, not a typo) Aug 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 19:03 Matt Elson I'm, I'm following Sequoia Capital because I just think they provide some really great presentations, um, on, uh, particularly in the current environment.

Details of $20m Revenue Profitwell and $55m Revenue Paddle Deal and what led to the $200m Acquisition Jun 27, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 41:14 Christian Owens Like sort of like, so if you found that down the back of the sofa before you've like, like at kind of Sequoia's sort of office,

Latka IPO Watch: 24.7 About to File? A look back Mar 24, 2022 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:55 PV Kannan And then we did one round of funding with Sequoia in 2003. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 7:57 PV Kannan You know, the Sequoia portfolio is a very good portfolio, so we have events and other structured, you know, time, and I also spend time with other Sequoia partners, not just Mike Moritz, because they're all helping enterprise companies, so… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:49 Nathan Latka Would you ever kind of the same reason you bought in Mike and Sequoia, would you ever do a sec, you know, call it a billion dollar secondary just to get Vista a little piece of the thing, sweeten it up or no, you don't see them as…

Look Back: Is Gong looking to IPO? Mar 22, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:47 Amit Bendov Uh, the last round was led by Sequoia, uh, in December, uh, six to five, um, million dollars.

DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next? Mar 1, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:23 Brendan Falk If we go with a big VC, like a Sequoia, an Andreessen, I say goes, if we're fortunate enough to go with one of them, they, they're, they're always taking 20%.

Will Gong Break $10b Valuation by October? Jul 5, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:03 Amit Bendov Uh, the last round was led by Sequoia, uh, in December, uh, six to five, um, million dollars.

The Secret Dataset CPG Gods Use Apr 6, 2021 · 2 mentions

Worth $2.6b Today, What About 36 Months Ago? Mar 27, 2021 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 12:09 Alex Yampolskiy Uh, then we did the Series A by Sequoia Capital, Series B by Google Ventures, and then the Series C was led by Nokia Growth Partners, Intel, AXA, and Moody's, uh, participated.
  • ▶ 15:50 Alex Yampolskiy I met him a couple of years ago at a Sequoia Capital offsite, and I

SalesQualia SaaS Secret Weapon, Helping 35 Founders Scale Pipeline, $1m+ Run Rate Feb 24, 2021 · 1 mention

Gong.io Adds $1.5B To Valuation, 1500 Customers, $45m+ in Revenue for Revenue Intelligence Sales Tool Sep 1, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 3:47 Amit Bendov Uh, the last round was led by Sequoia, uh, in December, uh, six to five, um, million dollars.

Video Platform Animoto up 20% YoY with $30m in Revenue, Will Canva Acquire For $300m? Jun 30, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 5:42 Jason Hsiao Sequoia posted their rest in peace, you know, memo or whatever it was. 2 times in the scene

New podcast: Anthony Pompliano on Price of Bitcoin, Gold, Chinese Power, Corporate Bailouts and 3 Places He's Investing Apr 13, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:19 Anthony Pompliano So go give the Sequoia benchmark and entries and say, we want to invest dollar, uh, dollar to dollar with you in the next, you know, 50 deals you do over the next three years.

1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale Sep 3, 2019 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:01 PV Kannan And then we did one round of funding with Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 6:33 PV Kannan The Sequoia portfolio is a very good portfolio. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 13:24 Nathan Latka Would you ever, kind of the same reason you bought in Mike and Sequoia, would you ever do it, you know, call it a billion dollar secondary just to get Vista a little piece of the thing, sweeten it up, or no, you don't see them as strategic?

1466 Sales Demo Tool Passes $3m in ARR, Transitions To Enterprise Jul 30, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 13:01 Garen Hess What I think is interesting is I was sitting in, um, Sequoia, uh, capitals office with Matt Miller over there a couple of years ago, and I was telling him, we're trying to make the shift.

1396 Percolate Flirts with $40m in ARR, 600 Brands Using as Their Ultimate Content Machine May 21, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 7:14 Randy Wootton What I found is, in having done this at Rocket Fuel as well with debt financing, is there a bunch of banks that are just lined up with the VCs, the top VCs in the world, and they got these different deals that they do, and they invest in… 2 times in the scene

1395 Kahuna Helps Marketplaces Keep Buyers and Sellers Engaged, Way more than $3m in ARR May 20, 2019 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:51 Samir Patel Kavuna is backed by, uh, Softech, Sequoia Capital, and, and, uh, and, uh, Tanaya Capital, uh, and we've raised close to fifty million.

1384 CyberSecurity SaaS CarbonBlack Passes $200m ARR Charging $30/Device/per May 9, 2019 · 1 mention

1208 Will This $250m+ Valuation Company be DeFacto Security Rating Standard? Nov 14, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 13:46 Alex Yampolskiy Uh, then we did the Series A by Sequoia Capital, Series B by Google Ventures, and then the Series C was led by Nokia Growth Partners, Intel, AXA, and Moody's, uh, participated.
  • ▶ 17:27 Alex Yampolskiy I met him a couple of years ago at a Sequoia Capital offsite, and I

1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo Sep 18, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:54 David Rusenko Um, in, uh, 2014, we raised thirty five million from Sequoia, um, and Tencent
  • ▶ 10:52 David Rusenko Um, uh, then, then, then of course, uh, Sequoia, um, and then most recently also Tencent.

1056 DataStax CEO: "We're growing 40% yoy with 110% net revenue expansion" Jun 15, 2018 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 19:21 Nathan Latka So I guess they just raised the A round from, from Calciana, Sequoia and, and John. 2 times in the scene

1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR May 4, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:06 Eric Yuan And, uh, when I started, I, I, I did raise the three million seed funding from all the Silicon Valley, you know, angel investors or friends, and some, you know, ex-Cisco executives, some former WebEx executives as well, and then later on…

962 Why Hubspot Spent 1000's+ Hours On Pricing Mar 13, 2018 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 17:34 Brian Halligan Then we raised our round from Sequoia, and this guy named Pat Grady at Sequoia, Sequoia, who is an expert on pricing, and he was the one who schooled us on this kind of two-axis pricing. 4 times in the scene

923 He's Doing $10m-$30m in ARR Between Adtech and SaaS Feb 2, 2018 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 9:32 Amit Avner We raised capital, so when we, I, I was lucky enough to be an engineer, and I had a good idea, and Sequoia Capital came in and wrote a check, uh, before we started the company, and to get the employees going.

736: How Mobile Analytics Company Went $0 to $4 Million in 12 Months Jul 30, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 4:22 Sunil Thomas We are actually one of the few companies that are both Excel and Sequoia, uh, partners funded. 2 times in the scene

708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important Jul 2, 2017 · 13 mentions

  • ▶ 1:33 Nathan Latka Prior to founding the company, he was an investor with Sequoia Capital, where he focused on early stage companies across enterprise software, SaaS, and the internet sectors.
  • ▶ 1:46 Nathan Latka Sequoia sounds like a sweet gig. 8 times in the scene
  • ▶ 5:15 Nathan Latka We'll dive into it, but first, last question about Sequoia. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 16:07 Asaf Resnik Uh, you know, our partners today include, uh, Sequoia and Mayfield and, and, and battery.
  • ▶ 25:21 Asaf Resnik And only later into life as I joined Sequoia and started my own company did I really start thinking as an entrepreneur.

680: How to Start SaaS Company with Very little Savings, with Reply.io CEO Oleg Campbell Jun 4, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 9:50 Oleg Campbell I ended up having a meeting with Sequoia, with Andrew Horowitz, and with August Capital, many other, many other, like, firms, again, through just cold email. 2 times in the scene

674: Sumo Logic Passes 1300 Customers, $140M+ Raised, Flirting W/ $100M ARR with CEO Ramin Sayar May 29, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 8:37 Ramin Sayar Um, and it runs the gamut of Greylock, Sutter Hills, Sequoia, Excel, DFJ, and IDP, and a few others.

671: Predicting The Future of FInTech with Steve McLaughlin, CEO at FT Partners May 26, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:48 Steve McLaughlin Sequoia backed company, um, uh, you know, kind of startup and was going initially after the consumer side, pivoted a little bit to the, to be a B to B player and, uh, you know, can't say the size of the deal, but you can Google it and it's…

EP 529: $10m Raised, Pre-Revenue, Notion.ai Adds AI to Email Messaging with Co-Founder Guy Suter Jan 4, 2017 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 15:33 Guy Suter Uh, and then, uh, a guy named Mark Kwame on our board, uh, at Drive Capital, who was a ex Sequoia partner that just set up a new fund here in Columbus a few years ago. 2 times in the scene

EP 437: SaaS $10m Raised, $8m+ 2015 Revenue, The Algorithmic Mckinsey with CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal Oct 4, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:01 Nathan Latka His customers include Cisco, Sequoia Capital, Gartner, KPMG, Marketo, Red Hat, Castro, just to name

EP 417 SPECIAL: Warner Interviews Latka: Con Artist or Brilliant Genius? Sep 14, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:28 Andrew Warner And he was an early investor in Uber through a scout, a scout, uh, deal that he had with Sequoia.

Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 · 1 mention

Inventor of Hyper-Convergence Sitting On $150m+ Valuation and $77m Raised with Mohit Aron of Cohesity EP 199 Mar 9, 2016 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 4:32 Mohit Aran Well, I first had to learn the ropes of doing a startup, and so, and so the business was, uh, you know, Astrid Systems, and that was not my company, that was a company done by some Stanford grads, uh, well-funded, you know, Sequoia was… 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:02 Mohit Aran So, so very soon, within a couple of months, uh, I got funded by Sequoia and another venture firm, which was new, called Wing Ventures, and together they put in fifteen million dollars to put, uh, uh, money into my Series A. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 17:23 Nathan Latka So look, I mean, Mohit, what this really, what this really puts focus on is, again, if you're getting somewhere north of a hundred and fifty million dollar valuation on your Series B, it's because, you know, Bill at Sequoia is really…

He Sits on Spotify Board Feb 2, 2016 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 10:36 Frank Meehan Oh no, so when it comes to the Asian companies, so that's where it's more like SoftBank, um, and, you know, Sequoia is actually the big, you know, we're not, our companies in Asia are much earlier stage, um, but Sequoia is the biggest… 3 times in the scene
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