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Kais Khimji

Partner at Sequoia Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Kais Khimji is a Partner at Sequoia Capital, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. With a background in investing and serving as a board observer for various companies, Kais has made significant contributions to the growth and success of startups in sectors such as Digital Health, SaaS, and Consumer Internet. Kais's career highlights include his role as a Partner at Sequoia Capital, where he actively invests in Series B stage companies and has served as a board observer for notable companies like Grafana Labs and Clipboard Health.

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.

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