Shaun Maguire
Partner at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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.