David Cahn
Partner at Sequoia Capital
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Investor
2022
Hugging Face allows users to build, train, and deploy art models using the reference open source in machine learning.
Raised $395,200,000.00 from Bossa Invest, PremjiInvest, Firestreak Ventures, Google, AMD, Sound Ventures, NVIDIA, Intel, IBM and Salesforce Ventures.
Investor
2021
Notion is a workspace platform that offers note-taking, collaboration, task management, wikis, and databases.
Raised $343,199,697.00 from Coatue, Shine Capital and Sequoia Capital.
General Partner & COO of Venture
2018 - 2023
Investments: UiPath, Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent, Gitlab, Starburst, Snyk, Notion, Figma, Loom, Rippling, Weights & Biases, HuggingFace, Runway, Repl.it, Supabase, Scale, Stability, Marqeta, Rapyd, Chainalysis, Checkr, Hinge Health, Aurora Solar, Form Energy, Patch, Sweep, Clickhouse, Airbyte, Tackle, Infinitus, Abacus, Edge Impulse, Lightning, Bigeye, Gantry, Kubecost, Latch Bio, CommerceLayer, Pocus, Orbit Love, Coursedog, Kurtosis, Raycast, Causal, Httpie
Board Director
2021 - 2023
Board Director
2021 - 2023
Runway is an applied AI research company that builds the next generation of creativity tools.
Raised $236,500,000.00 from Rogue VC, Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA, Google, Amplify Partners, Lukas Biewald, Howie Liu, Lux Capital, Jay Simons and Compound.
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Aurora Solar is a SaaS company that uses aerial imagery to assess solar installation projects.
Raised $523,470,493.00 from Emerson Collective, Energize Capital, Coatue, ICONIQ Growth, Lux Capital and Fifth Wall.
Board Observer
2021 - 2023
Replit is a browser-based integrated development environment for cross-platform collaborative coding.
Raised $222,020,000.00 from Craft Ventures and AIspace Ventures.
Investor
2020 - 2023
Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Raised $455,900,000.00 from Axevil Capital, Employee Stock Option Fund and Junipero Capital.
Board Observer
2020 - 2023
Starburst Data is an analytics platform for data.
Raised $414,000,000.00 from B Capital, Alkeon Capital, Index Ventures, Ethos VC, Salesforce Ventures, Altimeter Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Coatue.