Sequoia Capital
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Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sequoia Capital canonical | 11 |
| Sequoia Capital India (as investor in OYO) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4254277 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sequoia Capital Context triple: [Don Valentine, founded, Sequoia Capital]
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A.
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
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B.
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
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C.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
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D.
Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
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E.
Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sequoia Capital Target entity description: Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
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A.
Andreessen Horowitz
Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
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B.
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
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C.
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
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D.
Thiel Capital
Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
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E.
Kapor Capital
Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
investment firm
ⓘ
venture capital firm ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| focusesOnSector |
consumer internet
ⓘ
enterprise software ⓘ financial technology ⓘ technology ⓘ |
| founded | 1972 ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Don Valentine ⓘ |
| foundingYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| hasAUM | tens of billions of US dollars ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
China
ⓘ
India ⓘ Southeast Asia ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| hasPartner |
Doug Leone
ⓘ
Michael Moritz ⓘ Roelof Botha ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm
ⓘ
top-tier VC firm globally ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Menlo Park, California ⓘ |
| industry |
private equity
ⓘ
venture capital ⓘ |
| investedIn |
Airbnb, Inc.
ⓘ
linked to:
Airbnb
Alphabet Inc. ⓘ Apple Inc. ⓘ DoorDash ⓘ Dropbox ⓘ Google LLC ⓘ
linked to:
Google
Instagram ⓘ LinkedIn ⓘ Nvidia ⓘ
linked to:
NVIDIA Corporation
Oracle Corporation ⓘ PayPal ⓘ Snowflake Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
Snowflake Data Cloud
Stripe ⓘ WhatsApp Inc. ⓘ
linked to:
WhatsApp
YouTube ⓘ |
| knownAs | Sequoia ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Silicon Valley ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early-stage technology investments
ⓘ
growth-stage investments ⓘ |
| portfolioIncludes |
multiple Fortune 500 companies
ⓘ
multiple NASDAQ-listed companies ⓘ |
| stageFocus |
early stage
ⓘ
growth stage ⓘ seed ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sequoia Capital Description of subject: Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist
subject linked to:
Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist
linked to: Sequoia Capital