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Sequoia announced in a memo posted to X that it is shutting down its scout program, which let selected founders and operators invest on the firm's behalf, and closing its London office. The firm described the changes as part of a push toward more focus rather than a critique of the scouts model itself.
Trajectory, an 18-person startup founded by three Stanford alumni, has raised $45 million in a Series A round at a $300 million valuation, led by Sequoia with participation from Nvidia, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bain Capital Ventures. The platform lets businesses connect open source AI models to their applications, collecting feedback that is used to retrain and improve those models for specialized tasks over time. Legal tech company Harvey and financial analysis firm Rogo are already using the platform to post-train open source models for their respective industries.
Bloomberg estimates the value of stakes held by several Anthropic investors based on the company's latest private valuation of $965 billion, ahead of a public listing expected this year that could value the AI firm at up to $2 trillion. Early investor Eric Schmidt's roughly 1% stake is estimated at nearly $10 billion, while Iconiq's $6 billion investment is now valued at $17 billion, Menlo Ventures' stake at $14 billion, and Spark Capital's $75 million Series C investment has grown to about $7 billion.
Blacksmith, which builds continuous integration tools for testing software including AI-generated code, raised a $66 million Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1 billion valuation, the company announced Wednesday. CEO Aditya Jayaprakash said annual recurring revenue has grown 17-fold and the platform has run over 90 million CI jobs, with customers including Mercury and Granola.
AI infrastructure startup TypeSafe announced an $870 million funding round valuing the company at $7.5 billion. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Sequoia Capital, existing backer DCVC, and several angel investors, and Martin Casado is joining the board. The company says a third of Fortune 500 firms already use its Jev platform and that it has saved customers millions in production costs.
Healthleap, a startup founded in South Africa in 2022, has raised $38 million across seed and Series A rounds to expand its AI platform that scans hospital patient records for signs of undiagnosed conditions. The funding includes an $8 million seed round co-led by Sequoia Capital and First Round Capital, plus a $30 million Series A led by Hummingbird Ventures. The company's system, now deployed in more than 50 hospitals, mines clinicians' written notes alongside structured data like labs and vitals to flag risks such as malnutrition and delirium.
German robotics startup RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through a secondary share sale that let long-tenured employees cash out part of their equity. Existing backers Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenfield, Kindred, Lingotto and Promus Ventures joined new investors Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective in the round, which follows a $100 million Series C announced in January 2026. The company plans a 2027 commercial launch of its autonomous robot Alfie, with a focus on expanding in the US manufacturing market.
Flow Engineering, a three-year-old San Francisco startup building AI agents for hardware design, announced a $50 million Series B round valuing the company at $750 million. The round was co-led by Antonio Gracias of Valar Equity Partners and Gavin Baker of Atreides Management, with participation from Sequoia Capital and individual investor Roelof Botha, who is joining Flow's board. The company's software automatically reconciles CAD drawings with product requirements and simulation data, and counts Anduril, Rivian, Joby Aviation and General Motors PPU among its customers.
Instinct, maker of a viral AI assistant that performs tasks like booking travel and making calls on users' behalf, has raised $1 billion in a Series C round led by investors including Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital and Coatue. The round values the company at $10 billion, just a month after a prior raise valued it at $2.5 billion, and comes roughly a year after its invite-only launch in August 2026.
Mecka AI, a startup that pays people to record themselves performing everyday tasks to generate motion data for training humanoid robots, is close to finalizing a new funding round led by Sequoia Capital valuing the company at roughly $500 million. The deal comes just three months after Mecka raised $60 million in a round led by Framework Ventures, though the exact size of the new round remains unknown and terms could still change.
Cymphony, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based startup, raised a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, pushing its valuation above $100 million after a previously undisclosed Sequoia seed round. The company builds a 'workforce graph' that gives security teams visibility into which employees, AI agents, and other non-human identities can access sensitive systems and data.
After Sequoia Capital chairman Doug Leone recounted undergoing a root canal without Novocaine to prove his toughness before a meeting, the American Association of Endodontists pushed back publicly. The group, representing over 8,000 specialists, stressed that patients should never endure severe pain during the procedure and should ask for more anesthetic if needed.