Sequoia Capital's investment portfolio includes 127 unicorn startups. These companies span various industries, from artificial intelligence to financial technology.
Among them is OpenAI, which has reached a $500 billion valuation. Another notable company is SpaceX, with its valuation of $400 billion.
Below is the full list of 127 unicorn startups at this time funded by Sequoia Capital.
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Get the Sheet for $50OpenAI develops advanced AI models through its work as a research and deployment company. They are best known for creating powerful language models, including the widely used conversational AI, ChatGPT.
| Valuation | $500B (Joined July 2019) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2015 |
| Founders | Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, Sam Altman, Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Wojciech Zaremba |
| Funding Amount | $78B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | TPG, NVIDIA, Andreessen Horowitz, Citi, Sequoia Capital |
SpaceX designs, manufactures, and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, including the world's first reusable orbital-class rockets. Their work has dramatically reduced the cost of access to space, with a long-term mission to enable human life on Mars.
| Valuation | $400B (Joined December 2012) |
| Headquarters | Hawthorne, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Founders | Elon Musk |
| Funding Amount | $11.8B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Craft Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz |
ByteDance develops content platforms that enable people to create, connect, and be entertained. They are best known as the parent company of TikTok, the globally popular short-form video application.
| Valuation | $300B (Joined April 2017) |
| Headquarters | Beijing, Beijing, China |
| Year Founded | 2012 |
| Founders | Rubo Liang, Yiming Zhang |
| Funding Amount | $9.5B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Private Equity |
| Top Investors | HSG, New Enterprise Associates, General Atlantic, Sequoia Capital, Morgan Stanley |
Ant Group created Alipay, one of the world's largest digital payment and lifestyle platforms. They develop a broad range of financial technologies to give consumers and small businesses more inclusive access to banking, credit, and investment services.
| Valuation | $150B |
| Headquarters | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Founders | Jack Ma |
| Funding Amount | $28.5B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Series C |
| Top Investors | Sequoia Capital, Temasek Holdings, BNP Paribas, General Atlantic, Warburg Pincus |
Stripe builds financial infrastructure for the internet, primarily through a suite of payment processing APIs. Their developer-first platform allows businesses of all sizes to easily accept payments, manage revenue, and launch new business models online.
| Valuation | $92B (Joined January 2014) |
| Headquarters | South San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2010 |
| Founders | John Collison |
| Funding Amount | $9.4B |
| Company Size | Enterprise Organization (5,001+) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst |
xAI develops artificial intelligence models with the ambitious goal of understanding the true nature of the universe. Their first major product, Grok, is an AI assistant known for its real-time knowledge and conversational style.
| Valuation | $50B (Joined May 2024) |
| Headquarters | Burlingame, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2023 |
| Founders | Christian Szegedy, Elon Musk, Greg Yang, Igor Babuschkin, Kyle Kosic, Manuel Kroiss, Toby Pohlen, Yuhuai Wu |
| Funding Amount | $22.7B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | Tribe Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA |
Safe Superintelligence is developing artificial intelligence with safety as its foundational and only goal. Their entire product and research effort is aimed at creating a superintelligence that is provably safe for humanity.
| Valuation | $32B (Joined September 2024) |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2024 |
| Founders | Daniel Gross, Daniel Levy, Ilya Sutskever |
| Funding Amount | $3B |
| Company Size | Lean Team (11-50) |
| Last Funding Status | Venture Round |
| Top Investors | SV Angel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital |
Ramp has built a finance automation platform that unifies corporate cards, expense management, and bill payments into a single system. Their software is designed to help businesses streamline financial operations and reduce overall spending.
| Valuation | $32B (Joined March 2021) |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, United States |
| Year Founded | 2019 |
| Founders | Eric Glyman, Gene Lee, Karim Atiyeh |
| Funding Amount | $3B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series E |
| Top Investors | Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Citi, General Catalyst |
Rippling builds a workforce platform that unifies HR, IT, and finance into a single system of record. Companies use their software to manage the entire employee lifecycle, from onboarding and payroll to app provisioning and device management.
| Valuation | $17B (Joined August 2020) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Founders | Parker Conrad, Prasanna Sankar |
| Funding Amount | $2.4B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Series G |
| Top Investors | Y Combinator, Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Abstract |
Faire runs a wholesale marketplace designed to help independent retailers discover and buy goods from artisans and brands around the world. The platform gives small business owners the tools to easily stock their shops with unique merchandise.
| Valuation | $13B (Joined October 2019) |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Year Founded | 2017 |
| Founders | Daniele Perito, Jeffrey Kolovson, Marcelo Cortes, Max Rhodes |
| Funding Amount | $1.7B |
| Company Size | Major Organization (1,001-5,000) |
| Last Funding Status | Corporate Round |
| Top Investors | Norwest, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Wellington Management |
The Remaining 117 Unicorns Backed by Sequoia Capital
The ten most valuable companies get much of the spotlight, but they are only part of the story. Dozens of other startups are building essential products and growing at their own pace.
Many of these businesses are focused on AI, with others spread across fields like fintech and healthcare. Here’s a look at the rest of the companies that round out the list.