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David Cahn

Partner at Sequoia Capital

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

David Cahn is a Partner at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, with a strong track record of successful investments in companies like LatchBio and Abacus.AI. He has held key roles at Coatue Management and has served on the boards of companies like Runway and Aurora Solar. Cahn's career highlights include investing in a variety of successful startups at different stages, such as Series A and Series B, and focusing on sectors like Cloud Infrastructure and SaaS. He has also demonstrated strong leadership and strategic decision-making skills through his roles as a Partner at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Coatue Management.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2023 - Current

Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.

  • Board Director

    2024

  • Board Observer

    2024

  • Investor

    2022

Hugging Face allows users to build, train, and deploy art models using the reference open source in machine learning.

Raised $395,200,000.00 from Bossa Invest, PremjiInvest, Firestreak Ventures, Google, AMD, Sound Ventures, NVIDIA, Intel, IBM and Salesforce Ventures.

  • Investor

    2021

Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.

Raised $343,199,697.00 from Coatue, Shine Capital and Sequoia Capital.

  • General Partner & COO of Venture

    2018 - 2023

    Investments: UiPath, Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent, Gitlab, Starburst, Snyk, Notion, Figma, Loom, Rippling, Weights & Biases, HuggingFace, Runway, Replit, Clickhouse, Supabase, Scale, Stability, Marqeta, Rapyd, Chainalysis, Checkr, Hinge Health, Aurora Solar, Form Energy, Patch, Sweep, Airbyte, Tackle, Infinitus, Abacus, Edge Impulse, Lightning, Bigeye, Gantry, Kubecost, Latch Bio, CommerceLayer, Pocus, Orbit Love, Coursedog, Kurtosis, Raycast

  • Board Director

    2021 - 2023

Runway is an applied AI research company that builds the next generation of creativity tools.

Raised $236,500,000.00 from Rogue VC, Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Google, Amplify Partners, Lukas Biewald, Howie Liu, Lux Capital, Jay Simons and Compound.

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2023

Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment for cross-platform collaborative coding.

Raised $222,020,000.00 from Craft Ventures and AIspace Ventures.

  • Board Director

    2021 - 2023

  • Board Observer

    2021 - 2023

Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.

Raised $523,470,493.00 from Emerson Collective, Energize Capital, Coatue, ICONIQ Growth, Lux Capital and Fifth Wall.

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