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Sonya Huang

Partner at Sequoia Capital

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Sonya Huang is a Partner at Sequoia Capital in San Francisco, California, specializing in investing in Series B stages across various sectors like Generative Tech/AI, FinTech, AI, Consumer Internet, and Enterprise. She has made significant investments in companies such as Fireworks AI (Series B) and Glean (Series D) and holds board positions in several tech companies, showcasing her expertise and influence in the industry.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2018 - Current

    General Partner @ Sequoia. We help the daring build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond.

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

  • Board Member

    2024

Fireworks AI provides advanced tools for developing and deploying generative AI models.

Raised $77,000,000.00 from Alexandr Wang, Benchmark, MongoDB, Howie Liu, AMD, Sequoia Capital, NVIDIA, Databricks Ventures, Sheryl Sandberg and Frank Slootman.

  • Series A Lead Investor & Board

    2023

LangChain enables developers to accelerate their LLM application workflows by overseeing the entire project lifecycle.

Raised $35,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital.

  • Board Member

    2023

Gong is a technology company that offers a revenue intelligence platform using AI to analyze customer interactions.

Raised $583,000,000.00 from Coatue, Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital, Skip Capital, Tiger Global Management, Salesforce Ventures and Franklin Templeton.

  • Board Member

    2022

Glean develops an AI-based search engine software that connects enterprise data and generates answers through a tool in any company.

Raised $618,200,000.00 from Coatue, Kleiner Perkins, General Catalyst, ICONIQ Growth, Cacti, Latitude Capital, Craft Ventures, Altimeter, Lightspeed Venture Partners and SoftBank Vision Fund.

  • 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.

  • Board Member

    2022

Apollo.io is a market sales platform that helps accelerate the growth of an organization.

Raised $251,320,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Tribe Capital, Bain Capital Ventures and Nexus Venture Partners.

  • Board Member

    2021

  • Board Member

    2021

Streamlit is an open-source app framework for creating and deploying data science applications.

Raised $62,000,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, Gradient and Notable Capital.

  • Board Observer

    2021

Glossier is a direct-to-consumer beauty company that leverages content and community to power a superior shopping experience.

Raised $266,400,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, IVP, Index Ventures, Forerunner, Thrive Capital and Lone Pine Capital.

Education 

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