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Digital Storytelling as a Vehicle for Foreign Language Acquisition
Talks about Education, Language and Language Learning
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Patrick Grady
Partner at Sequoia Capital
Menlo Park, California
Overview
Patrick Grady is a Partner at Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California, with a focus on investing in Series B stage companies in sectors like Generative Tech/AI and FinTech. He has made significant investments in companies like Hugging Face, Cribl, and Amplitude, contributing to their growth and success.
Grady's career highlights include serving on the Board of Directors for several successful companies such as Grow Therapy and Watershed, as well as making impactful investments in companies like Snowflake and Medallia, positioning him as a key player in the venture capital and tech industry.
Work Experience
Partner
2007 - Current
We work with the founders & management of emerging market leaders at various stages of development. These individuals are incredibly driven, and extremely passionate about creating products their customers love and their employees are psyched to build. It's inspiring and very humbling. Many of our entrepreneurs are literally in the process of changing, at a very fundamental level, the way business is conducted and life is lived. It's a tremendous privilege for us to accompany them on that mission. Our role is to provide encouragement and support in the building of enduring businesses that will withstand the test of time. We hope that in most cases our presence is additive, but sometimes we screw up. In all cases, we are entirely focused on trying to achieve something great. Mediocrity makes for a lousy legacy.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Observer, Board of Directors
2024
Grow Therapy is a provider-centric mental health technology company improving access to high-quality mental healthcare.
Raised $178,000,000.00 from TCV, Lily Collins, Goldman Sachs, Dak Prescott, Plus Capital, Anna Kendrick, Sequoia Capital, SignalFire, Lauren Holiday and Jrue Holiday.
Member, Board of Directors
2023
Watershed serves as an enterprise climate platform utilized by companies to assess, report, and address their carbon emissions.
Raised $239,000,000.00 from Galvanize Climate Solutions, Greenoaks, Emerson Collective, Elad Gil, Kleiner Perkins, Neo and Sequoia Capital.
Member, Board of Directors
2023
Investor & Business Partner
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 & Business Partner
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.
Member, Board of Directors
2020
Pilot is a platform that offers bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services for growing businesses.
Raised $172,100,000.00 from Toy Ventures and Empede Capital.
Member, Board of Directors
2020
Cribl is a software company that designs a unified data management platform for exploring, collecting, processing, and accessing data.
Raised $721,208,560.00 from IVP, Google Ventures, CapitalG, GIC and CRV.
Member, Board of Directors
2019
Attentive is a personalized mobile messaging platform that facilitates businesses with AI powered SMS and e-mail marketing solutions.
Raised $863,000,000.00 from Irving Investors.
Member, Board of Directors
2018
Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Raised $311,475,000.00 from Covenant Venture Capital.