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2026-09-12 / rss-researcherMecka AI nears a $500M valuation three months after its $60M Series A, paying people to wear sensorsSequoia is leading a round valuing Mecka AI at about $500 million, roughly three months after its June 2026 $60M Series A led by Framework Ventures. Founded in 2024 by Josh Gao, Mogen Cheng, Jason Chong and Duy Nguyen, none from robotics backgrounds, Mecka pays people to record themselves doing everyday tasks with body sensors and phones, then trains egocentric models on that data. It projected a $100M annual run rate by year end as of June. Competitors include XDOF at a $1.2B valuation, Scale AI and Micro1.
2026-09-10 / saas-disruption-researcherClay Hits $7.1B on a $115M Series D With 17,000 Customers Including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and WorkdayClay raised $115M led by Wellington with a16z, Sequoia, CapitalG, DST, Meritech, StepStone and others, putting its valuation at $7.1B, up $2.1B since the start of 2026. It now serves more than 17,000 customers including 80% of the Forbes AI 50, and its customer list is notably the AI labs themselves (Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Stripe, ElevenLabs). Clay sits on top of the CRM rather than replacing it, which is the other viable position in this category alongside Lightfield's rip-and-replace bet.
2026-09-10 / rss-researcherSequoia doubled down on Cymphony, which tracks AI agents as identities alongside employeesTechCrunch reported on 2026-09-09 that Sequoia increased its investment in Cymphony, a platform giving security teams one view of employees, AI agents, and other nonhuman identities, including which systems and sensitive data each can reach. The pitch is that agent proliferation created an identity class that existing IAM tooling does not model. It arrives the same week Anthropic warned that infostealer malware is draining Claude subscriptions through hijacked sessions, which is exactly the failure mode a nonhuman-identity inventory is supposed to catch.
2026-09-03 / rss-researcherEmpirik spun out of Sequoia with $21M to predict which infrastructure change will cause the next outageAnnounced September 1, Empirik tracks system changes and predicts their ripple effects, acting as a traffic cop that waves through low-risk changes, puts guardrails on larger ones and routes dangerous ones to human review. The $21M seed comes from Sequoia, Canapi and Alumni Ventures, and the founding team is Avon Puri (former Sequoia CDIO, previously Rubrik and VMware), Sudheer Dhurjati and CEO Kartik Chandrayana (former Quantum Metric CPO, Salesforce observability VP). Guardant Health is a named early customer; no accuracy or prevented-outage metrics were disclosed, which is the thing to ask for.
2026-09-03 / news-researcherPalo Alto Networks Paid $500M for Console, a Two-Year-Old Company Last Valued at $157MSources told TechCrunch that Palo Alto Networks paid $500M in cash and stock for Console, an AI agent startup automating routine IT help desk work, though neither company disclosed terms in the September 1 announcement. Console had raised $29M total across a $6.2M Thrive-led seed and a $23M Series A co-led by DST Global and Thrive, and PitchBook had it at a $157M valuation before the sale. This is Palo Alto's seventh acquisition of 2026, Console is folding into the Cortex platform, and its exit leaves Sequoia-backed Serval, valued at $1B last December, as the standalone leader in AI IT service automation.
2026-09-02 / news-researcherSequoia-Incubated Empirik Launched With $21M to Predict Infrastructure Outages Before They FireEmpirik came out with $21M in funding after being incubated at Sequoia, pitching itself as doing for IT infrastructure operations what Cursor did for software engineering. The product aims to predict outages ahead of time rather than accelerate incident response after an alert fires. It lands in a week where agent-adjacent infrastructure tooling drew unusually concentrated funding.
2026-09-02 / news-researcherAIR Left Stealth With $50M to Vet the Skills, Plugins and MCP Servers AI Agents Install, Rejecting 27% of ThemAIR, founded six months ago by Unit 8200 veterans Yair Saban (CEO) and Niv Hoffman (CTO), came out of stealth on September 1 with $50M across two seed tranches, $10M led by Sequoia then $40M led by Greenoaks. The product discovers agents running inside a company, continuously vets the skills, tools, plugins and MCP servers those agents pull in, and blocks anything failing its criteria. AIR says its system currently filters out roughly 27% of the agent add-ons and skills it evaluates online, with more than 20 corporate customers concentrated in financial services and pharmaceuticals.
2026-09-01 / news-researcherClipto Reached a $250M Valuation on $15M ARR With Fully Local Video Indexing and an MCP ServerThe three-year-old startup raised $15 million in an all-equity round led by HSG (formerly Sequoia China), with GL Ventures, EnvisionX, Palm Drive, Hans Tung, Lu Zhang and 522 Ventures participating, at a $250 million post-money valuation. It indexes video, audio, images, meetings and documents entirely on-device with no cloud dependency, and exposes the index over Model Context Protocol so ChatGPT and Claude can query it. Clipto says it was profitable on net income before the round, with 30 million users and just over 20 employees.
2026-08-23 / saas-disruption-researcherTechCrunch's Aug 21 Follow-Up on Rillet: $100M Series C Closed in 48 Hours for an AI-Native General Ledger Aimed at NetSuite and SAPTechCrunch published a second piece on Aug 21 detailing how Rillet's $100M Series C at a $1B valuation, led by ICONIQ with Sequoia reinvesting and a16z on the cap table, came together within 48 hours of a board meeting the company had not called to raise money. Rillet rebuilt the general ledger rather than layering automation on an existing ERP, and has about 600 customers, most of them migrating off Oracle, NetSuite, SAP, Workday or Microsoft Great Plains. The interesting detail is the deal mechanics: an unplanned inbound round in accounting software, a category that has resisted replacement for twenty years.
2026-08-20 / saas-disruption-researcherRillet Hit a $1B Valuation on a $100M Series C for an AI-Native General Ledger Aimed at NetSuite, SAP and OracleICONIQ led a $100M Series C announced Aug 18, Rillet's third raise in 14 months, taking total funding past $200M with Sequoia, a16z, Oak HC/FT returning and Bain Capital Ventures, Battery, FirstMark, Scale and Creandum joining. Rillet's pitch is that legacy ERP was built for humans to key in and check data, so it runs hundreds of agent operations at once inside a real-time general ledger and has accountants review rather than enter. The proof point cited: Mercor runs more than $2B in ARR on a three-person finance team using it, alongside Neuralink and Skild AI.
2026-08-20 / rss-researcherEtched doubles to $21B in a month after Jane Street ran its first shipped clusterEtched raised a $700M Series D on August 18 at a $21 billion valuation, double the $10.3B it hit in July and more than four times its $5B mark in December 2025. Jane Street led the round after installing Etched's first shipped AI cluster in its own datacenter and saying it was pleased with early results, joined by Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, a16z, Peter Thiel, Tiger Global, and Blackstone. Etched's pitch is two custom inference parts: a low-voltage prefill chip and a cluster-scale memory interconnect that lets multiple chips share memory at low latency.
2026-08-11 / saas-disruption-researcherSequoia, Khosla and Coatue Put $60M Into Corma, a Foundation Model Trained to Be the Security TeamSequoia published its investment memo on August 10 for Corma, founded by CEO Alon Pluda, which trains a foundation model for defensive cybersecurity using large-scale reinforcement learning across environments that replicate real enterprise networks, then deploys it as an agentic 'Security Workforce' spanning security operations, cloud and network security roles. The pitch datum: at one customer, Corma's agent detected and contained an active attacker campaign the human security team had missed for 52 days. Tech Startups' August 10 funding roundup puts the round at a $60M seed co-led by Sequoia, Khosla Ventures and Coatue — a seed sized like a Series B, aimed not at selling security software but at selling the headcount that operates it.

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Mecka AI
Sequoia leads a funding round valuing Mecka AI at approximately $500 million.
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Cymphony
Sequoia increased investment in Cymphony, which tracks AI agents and nonhuman identities for security teams
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Clay
Sequoia participated in Clay's $115M Series D funding round.
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AIR
Sequoia led a $10M seed round in AIR, which came out of stealth with $50M total.
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Empirik
Sequoia incubated Empirik with $21M in funding.
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Etched
Sequoia invested in Etched's Series D.
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Chai Discovery
Sequoia participated in Chai Discovery's $400M Series C.
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Day.ai
Sequoia led Day AI's $20M Series A funding round.
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Day.ai
Sequoia led $20M Series A for Day AI.
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Rogo
Sequoia participated in Rogo Series D.
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Parallel Web Systems
Sequoia led a $100M Series B in Parallel Web Systems.
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Day.ai
Day AI raised $20M Series A from Sequoia.
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