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Signal profile Bill Coughran VCInvestorFounder Founder's Coach and Partner at Sequoia Capital sequoiacap.com/people/bill-co...Menlo Park, California
- Current affiliation
- Sequoia · Partner
- Investment range
- $1M – $10M
- Sweet spot
- $5M
- Investments on record
- 67
Investments
| $10M2025-10 | Bill Coughran, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, Dell, Dell Technologies Capital, OSS Capital | |
| $16M2025-09 | Prelude | Bill Coughran |
| $19M2025-05 | Graphiant | Bill Coughran |
| $100M2024-05 | Alkira | Bill Coughran |
| $60M2024-05 | Quantum Circuits | Corey Ritter, Eugene Chiu, Bill Coughran |
| $5M2023-10 | Chkk | Bogomil Balkansky, Bill Coughran |
| $62M2023-03 | Graphiant | Bill Coughran |
| $5M2022-12 | QueryPal | Bill Coughran |
| $40M2022-10 | Nxyz | Bill Coughran |
| $45M2022-10 | Stairwell | Eric Schmidt, Bill Coughran |
| $55M2022-04 | LILT | Bill Coughran |
| $24M2022-04 | Prelude | Bill Coughran |
| $20M2021-09 | Stairwell | Bill Coughran |
| $53M2021-07 | Iambic | R. Jacob Vogelstein, Bill Coughran |
| $40M2021-03 | Neeva | Reid Hoffman, Bill Coughran |
| $220M2020-12 | Graphcore | Bill Coughran |
| $34M2020-12 | Graphiant | Bill Coughran |
| $5M2020-10 | Stairwell | Bill Coughran |
| $54M2020-10 | Alkira | Bill Coughran |
| $—2020-06 | QueryPal | Bill Coughran |
| $38M2020-06 | Neeva | Reid Hoffman, Bill Coughran |
| $25M2020-05 | LILT | Bill Coughran |
| $22M2020-04 | Alkira | Bill Coughran |
| $250M2020-04 | Cohesity | Randy Glein, Deep Nishar, Bill Coughran |
| $11M2020-02 | Robust Intelligence | Alex Balkanski, Bill Coughran |
| $50M2019-11 | Orbital Insight | Bill Coughran |
| $3M2019-04 | Oso | Bill Coughran |
| $3M2019-03 | Robust Intelligence | Bill Coughran |
| $—2019-01 | JITX | Bill Coughran |
| $5M2018-12 | Tecton | Bill Coughran, Martin Casado |
| $200M2018-12 | Graphcore | Bill Coughran |
| $70M2018-10 | Vector Launch | Bill Coughran |
| $10M2018-10 | LILT | Bill Coughran |
| $—2018-07 | Alkira | Bill Coughran |
| $250M2018-06 | Cohesity | Deep Nishar, Bill Coughran |
| $50M2017-11 | Graphcore | Bill Coughran |
| $18M2017-11 | Quantum Circuits | Bill Coughran |
| $21M2017-06 | Vector Launch | Bill Coughran |
| $15M2017-05 | Ascend.io | Bill Coughran |
| $50M2017-05 | Orbital Insight | Bill Coughran |
| $90M2017-04 | Cohesity | Bill Coughran |
| $50M2017-03 | Orbital Insight | Bill Coughran |
| $52M2016-10 | Wavefront | Bill Coughran |
| $57M2016-06 | Barefoot Networks | Bill Coughran, Martin Casado, Ben Horowitz |
| $20M2016-06 | Orbital Insight | Bill Coughran |
| $75M2016-05 | Viptela | Bill Coughran |
| $12M2016-02 | Wavefront | Bill Coughran |
| $16M2015-12 | Blue Danube Systems | Bill Coughran |
| $4M2015-12 | Ascend.io | Bill Coughran |
| $18M2015-11 | Docker | Bill Coughran |
| $50M2015-06 | Barefoot Networks | Bill Coughran, Ben Horowitz |
| $55M2015-06 | Cohesity | Bill Coughran |
| $95M2015-04 | Docker | Peter Fenton, Bill Coughran |
| $9M2015-03 | Orbital Insight | Bill Coughran |
| $30M2014-11 | Altiscale | Lawrence Bohn, Bill Coughran |
| $40M2014-09 | Docker | Bill Coughran |
| $7M2014-08 | Metanautix | Bill Coughran |
| $24M2014-05 | Barefoot Networks | Bill Coughran, Ben Horowitz |
| $2M2014-02 | Orbital Insight | Bill Coughran |
| $15M2013-11 | Cohesity | Bill Coughran |
| $—2013-08 | Viptela | Bill Coughran |
| $8M2013-07 | Blue Danube Systems | Bill Coughran |
| $12M2013-06 | Altiscale | Lawrence Bohn, Bill Coughran |
| $—2012-08 | Viptela | Bill Coughran |
| $—2012-01 | Metanautix | Bill Coughran |
| $2M2011-03 | Stripe | Bill Coughran |
| $6M2005-01 | FireEye | Bill Coughran |
Roles
Sequoia
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