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  • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
    Due Diligence
    Can Sequoia get its spark back? Premium content

    Plus, CVC bets on infrastructure and Arm’s target IPO valuation faces sceptical investors

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  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    News in-depth
    Investors raise questions after Sequoia Capital’s turbulent year

    Silicon Valley’s premier venture firm undergoes ‘profound change’ after China splits and soured bets on FTX and Twitter

    Montage of Roelof Botha and various corporate logos
  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
    Brookfield Asset Management Inc
    Brookfield and Sequoia offshoot launch fund to target cut-priced start-ups

    Pinegrove Capital hopes to take advantage of plunging valuations of venture-backed groups

    Bruce Flatt
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Sequoia Capital cuts back fund for crypto investments

    Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm has been retrenching amid sharp reversal in private markets

  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    Due Diligence
    Microsoft takes merger arbs for a ride Premium content

    Plus, Michael Moritz moves on from Sequoia, and Blackstone’s trillion-dollar milestone

    The Due Diligence logo
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Michael Moritz
    Michael Moritz leaves Sequoia Capital after almost 40 years

    Departure from start-up dealmaking follows venture capital group announcing plan to split off its China and India units

    Michael Moritz
  • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
    Sequoia China’s push into Singapore sets up fight against Indian arm

    Plans to expand into south-east Asia dealmaking from city-state puts it in direct competition with India-based Peak XV

    Neil Shen
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    News in-depth
    How US-China tensions shattered Sequoia’s venture capital empire

    Silicon Valley VC group’s lucrative foray into rival nation ends as geopolitical tensions flare up

    Montage of US/Chinese bills
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    US venture capital giant Sequoia to split off China business

    Group plans to break up into three entities following Beijing’s campaign to rein in country’s largest tech companies

    Neil Shen, founding and managing partner of Sequoia Capital China
  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast8 min listen
    Sequoia Capital to spin off its China business

    Dam break gives Russia a new weapon in Ukraine war

  • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
    Sequoia walks away from crime app Citizen amid funding crunch

    Investor abandons start-up over fundraising that has massively diluted its shareholding, as Silicon Valley VCs re-evaluate deals

    coomposite image of Citizen app and Sequoia logo
  • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
    Sam Bankman-Fried
    FTX boss invested in Paradigm fund that backed his crypto exchange

    Court documents shed light on Sam Bankman-Fried’s circular transactions

    Sam Bankman-Fried
  • Friday, 11 November, 2022
    FTX Trading Ltd
    Sam Bankman-Fried is not very good at League of Legends

    Wasting your time and ours on video games for the sake of historical completeness

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    FTX Trading Ltd
    Bankman-Fried invested in venture capital backers of his FTX exchange

    Founder of struggling crypto businesses placed hundreds of millions with Sequoia and other firms

    Sam Bankman-Fried
  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    News in-depthNeil Shen
    Neil Shen’s Sequoia China seeks ‘politically correct’ investment strategy

    Billionaire founder of powerful VC firm raises $9bn tech fund with a plan aligned to Beijing’s policy goals

    Neil Shen
  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    Chinese business & finance
    Sequoia targets $9bn China fundraising despite tech crackdown

    Funding round comes as global investors retreat over country’s zero-Covid policy and regulatory onslaught

    Neil Shen, founder and managing partner of Sequoia Capital China
  • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
    FT Alphaville
    Further reading

    Bowie bonds; techpocalypse; Calderwood musings; etc

  • Monday, 30 May, 2022
    #techFT
    The wages of Masayoshi Son as tech falls Premium content

    Tether’s Bahamas bank, Top Gun’s top takings, Xiaomi’s new TVs

    Masayoshi Son and SoftBank logos
  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    X Corp
    Larry Ellison, Binance and Sequoia back Musk’s $44bn Twitter bid

    Tesla chief raises $7bn from investors to help fund takeover of social media platform

    Elon Musk at the Met Gala in New York on Monday
  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    News in-depth
    Roelof Botha: Sequoia’s choice of leader shows shift in balance of power

    South African is ‘senior steward’ rather than global managing partner; China boss Neil Shen is the only other ‘steward’

    Roelof Botha: Sequoia’s ‘senior steward’
  • Monday, 4 April, 2022
    Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital names new leader

    Roelof Botha takes reins at prominent venture capital firm as Doug Leone steps back

    Roelof Botha at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014
  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Sequoia earmarks $500mn for push into cryptocurrency markets

    Silicon Valley VC group to bet on digital assets as part of broader restructuring plan

    Doug Leone, global managing partner at Sequoia Capital, pictured in 2018
  • Tuesday, 8 February, 2022
    Cryptocurrencies
    Sequoia and Silver Lake fund crypto infrastructure start-ups

    World’s top technology investors jockey to back fledgling groups building software that powers cryptocurrencies

    Alchemy founders Nikil Viswanathan, left, and Joe Lau
  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    News in-depthTech start-ups
    Noom: how the Silver Lake-backed wellness app handles vulnerable users

    Former ‘health coaches’ tell the FT about concerns with weight-loss targets and staffing at $4.2bn start-up

    Noom logo and images from Noom app
  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    Hedge funds
    Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities sells $1.2bn stake to Sequoia and Paradigm

    Deal values trading firm at $22bn and paves way for initial public offering

    Ken Griffin
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