Kais Khimji
Partner at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
We help the daring build legendary companies.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Board Observer
2021
Composable observability stack.
Grafana Accelerator Program offer grants, equity financing, and developer access for early-stage companies.
Board Observer
2022
On-demand nursing marketplace.
Clipboard Health is a marketplace where nurses and CNAs can search for jobs, and where healthcare facilities can fill open shifts.
Raised $94,120,000.00 from Y Combinator, Initialized Capital, SciFi VC, Caffeinated Capital and Sequoia Capital.
Board Observer
2021
AI coaching for contact center agents.
Cresta uses artificial intelligence to assist sales and service agents in the quality of customer service.
Raised $276,000,000.00 from Greylock, Workday Ventures, EnvisionX Capital, Sequoia Capital, Qualcomm Ventures, WiL (World Innovation Lab), Andreessen Horowitz, LG Technology Ventures, Tiger Global Management and Accenture.
Board Observer
2020
API security platform.
Salt Security provides an API protection platform designed to prevent attacks by leveraging machine learning and AI.
Raised $271,000,000.00 from CrowdStrike Falcon Fund.
Investor
2021
Cloud tools for biologics R&D.
Benchling is an IT company that provides a cloud-based software platform for biology researchers and research and development organizations.
Raised $411,900,000.00 from Lone Pine Capital, Franklin Templeton and Altimeter Capital.
Board Observer
2021
Retail investing tools for LatAm.
Investor
2019
IoT security platform.
Armis is a developer of an asset intelligence platform to analyze endpoint behavior to identify risks and attacks.
Raised $737,000,000.00 from General Catalyst, Georgian, Alkeon Capital and Brookfield Asset Management.
Investor
2018
API-first supply chain tracking.
As the supply chain connective tissue, project44 operates the world’s most trusted end-to-end visibility platform Movement
Raised $942,900,000.00 from Chicago Ventures, 8VC, Generation Investment Management, TPG, A.P. Moller Holding, Sapphire Ventures, Sozo Ventures, CMA CGM, Omidyar Technology Ventures and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
Associate
2017 - 2019
Company cracker.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.