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Bill Coughran

Founder of Sequoia Capital

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

Bill Coughran is a Founder's Coach and Partner at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California. With a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a successful track record in investing, he has played a key role in guiding and supporting numerous startups, including Alkira and Cohesity, as a board member, contributing to their growth and success.

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

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