Neil Shen, founding managing partner of Sequoia Capital China, ranked No. 15 on the list.
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In 1972, Valentine launched Sequoia Capital and pioneered the Silicon Valley venture capital industry.
In February Sequoia Capital co-hosted a recruiting event for its portfolio companies, including Dropbox Inc.
Bain Capital Ventures will join existing investors Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and Bessemer Ventures, Nye wrote.
Investors Sequoia Capital, Comcast Ventures (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Palomar Ventures are betting that it will.
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Current Airbnb investors Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital are also expected to participate in the new round.
Don Valentine of Sequoia Capital had been a sales vice president at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s.
Investors in Cotendo include Sequoia Capital, Benchmark Capital, Tenaya Capital, Presidio Ventures, Citrix and Juniper.
That Friday morning in early February, she pitched a startup idea to the venture firm Sequoia Capital.
Other firms that have taken interest in Brazil include Silicon Valley firms Accel Partners and Sequoia Capital.
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TokBox got started in 2007 as a destination video chat site funded by Sequoia Capital and others.
Moritz, who is chairman of Sequoia Capital, studied history at Christ Church College, Oxford, and graduated in 1976.
Currently LinkedIn is funded by Sequoia Capital the same company that was originally behind Google, Yahoo and PayPal.
Venture capital firms, such as Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and the Mayfield Fund, began to sprout like poppies.
"He was smart, experienced and rebounding from a career defeat, " says Michael Moritz, a partner at Sequoia Capital.
Sequoia Capital, Felicis Ventures, SV Angel and Kapor Capital this past Spring made a seed investment in Piazza.
Also participating in the deal are existing investors Sequoia Capital, Flybridge Capital and Union Square Ventures.
Sequoia Capital has long been hinting at a Brazilian hub, which they should take the plunge on in 2013.
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Among the big winners: LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman, his venture firm Greylock Partners, Sequoia Capital and Bessemer Venture Partners.
While Sequoia Capital China scores one IPO after another on NASDAQ and the NYSE, Kleiner continues to struggle in China.
Don Valentine founded Sequoia Capital in 1972 and presided over early investments in Apple, Electronic Arts, Cisco, Yahoo and Google.
Venture firms which hold stakes, Sequoia Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Greylock Partners, are not selling shares in the IPO.
They say hundreds of companies are using the site, including Barclays, McKinsey, Google, Disney, Sequoia Capital, Levi Strauss and MTV.
Meanwhile, Michael Moritz, a partner at the well-established venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, is upbeat about the current investment climate.
Xoom is backed by venture-capital firms including Sequoia Capital LLC, which will retain a roughly 18% stake after the offering.
Sequoia Capital is one of the famed Silicon Valley venture capital firms, with past investments in Apple, Cisco, Google, and Oracle.
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As Google struggled to make its advertising formula work in 2001 and 2002, Michael Moritz of Sequoia Capital grew impatient.
That was back in 2006 when he merged his young firm Westbridge Capital Partners with the well-known tech investor Sequoia Capital.
In the end, Warby turned away interest from Silicon Valley firms such as New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital and Greylock Partners.
Instead, on November 24, 2003, eleven days after the November 13 closing, MidCoast sold its Tarcon stock to Sequoia Capital, L.L.C.
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