Bill Coughran
Founder of Sequoia Capital
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder's Coach and Partner
2011 - Current
Business partner to growing companies. Coach to founders and teams.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Board Member
2018
Alkira is a network infrastructure as-a-service company that unifies multiple clouds, sites, and users via an enterprise network.
Raised $176,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Geodesic Capital, Koch Disruptive Technologies, Dallas Venture Capital, Kleiner Perkins, LIAN Group, Sequoia Capital and NextEquity Partners.
Board Member
2018
LILT is the complete enterprise AI platform for content translation and creation
Raised $92,500,000.00 from Intel Capital, Sequoia Capital, XSeed Capital, Sorenson Capital, Clear Ventures, Redpoint, Four Rivers Group and Wipro Ventures.
Board Member
2017
Board Member
2013
Board Member
2013
Helping guide and govern a non-profit opera company.
San Francisco Opera is an opera producer company.
Board Member
2020 - 2024
Robust Intelligence is a software firm that uses an automated approach to protect companies from AI security and safety vulnerabilities.
Raised $44,000,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Engineering Capital, Sequoia Capital and Harpoon.
Board Member
2019 - 2023
Neeva is an ad-free, private search engine that helps its users find exactly what matters to them.
Raised $77,500,000.00 from Inovia Capital, Sequoia Capital, Greylock and Neythri Futures Fund.
Board Member
2014 - 2023
Orbital Insight builds SaaS technology to understand what happens on and to the Earth with AI and machine learning
Raised $130,200,000.00 from Bossa Invest, Sand Hill Angels, Bossa Invest and BAM Elevate.
Board Member
2013 - 2022
Education
Ph.D.
1975 - 1980
M.S.
1975 - 1977
BS (with honors)
1971 - 1975
M.S.
1971 - 1975