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Shaun Maguire

Partner at Sequoia Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Shaun Maguire is a Partner at Sequoia Capital in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in Hadoop, Python, and Big Data. He has invested in various successful companies across different sectors, including Space, Consumer Internet, and AI, and has held key roles at Luminar Technologies and Expanse (formerly Qadium). Maguire's career highlights include co-founding Expanse, serving as a Board Member at Luminar Technologies, and investing in notable companies like Factory, Polycam, and Magic Eden while at Sequoia Capital.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2019 - Current

    I'm lucky to be a Partner at Sequoia Capital, where I've led a variety of investments: Hardware: - SpaceX - The Boring Company - Lightmatter - Neros - AMP Sortation - Reflect - Senra - Flux Photonics - Mach (Co-led with Stephanie Zhan) AI: - xAI - Decart - Factory - Foundry Enterprise: - Eon - Knowde - Skyramp - Watershed (Co-Led with Mike Moritz and Pat Grady) - Monad - Phsyna Fintech - Vise Consumer - Twitter (co-led with a few of my partners) - Gather Crypto: - Bridge.xyz - LayerZero - Blockaid - Privy - Caldera - Tiplink - Zellic - And liquid purchases of BTC, ETH, SOL and TON

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

  • Co-Founder and Chairman

    2012 - 2020

    Acquired by Palo Alto Networks ($PANW) for $1B in December 2020. Expanse was originally called Qadium. It spun out of work my co-founders and I did at DARPA.

Expanse is an enterprise software company that provides an updated view of all internet-connected assets that belong to an organization.

Raised $135,970,000.00 from New Enterprise Associates, TPG Growth, Employee Stock Option Fund, Peter Thiel, Taylor Glover, IVP, Founders Fund and Arianna Huffington.

  • Partner

    2016 - 2019

    Led or co-led the A in: Dandelion Energy, IonQ ($IONQ), Lambda School, Spinlaunch, Lightmatter (with Tyson Clark and Erik Nordlander) Investor in: Opendoor, Stripe; and sourced Segment

Google Ventures is an investment arm of Alphabet that provides seed, venture, and growth-stage funding to technology companies.

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