LEVEL3 Founders’ Breakfast Club is an exclusive platform for our startup founders to connect with the many tech entrepreneurs and partners within our community. It is an open forum where founders can be inspired, share ideas and knowledge, learn about opportunities, and make vital connections within the startup ecosystem.
In the upcoming Founders’ Breakfast Club: VC Edition on Wednesday, 30 October 2019, we are honoured to have Abheek Anand, Managing Director at Sequoia Capital share his insights on the nature of the venture partner-founder relationships including the ups & downs and key pointers all founders should know. He will also speak about his own personal experience as a startup founder and his view on building a successful business!
Abheek, has expertise in the areas of technical and software development which helped him co-found Tagtile, a Bay Area startup that was acquired by Facebook in 2013. After graduating with Masters at Stanford University, he became part of the team at Facebook as a Product Manager to spearhead several of the company’s ads and business products. For six years, he has been the Managing Director at Sequoia Capital and works closely with founders of early stage technology companies across all sectors in Southeast Asia to help startups get funding and accelerate their impact as a business.
Sequoia is a venture capital focused on internet, mobile, energy, financial, enterprise and healthcare startups. The firm works with founders to introduce their inventive solutions to the market and expand their business globally.
Sequoia seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on sustainable growth, marketing & advertising technologies, logistics, e-commerce, Internet, mobile, and technology to help passionate founders upscale their company!
Key outcomes from the session
Understanding the key attributes that Sequoia considers when making an investment
How Sequoia makes an impact on the growth of startups and sharing of past success stories
Learn about new industry trends and emerging technologies that interest the team at Sequoia
Agenda
9.00am Welcome and introduction
9.05am Abheek shares Sequoia's focus areas, and what matters to them in startup investment
9.20am Q&A and open discussion
10.00am End
About Sequoia Capital:
Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies, from idea to IPO and beyond. Sequoia India operates in Southeast Asia and India where we actively partner with founders from a wide range of companies, across categories, including BYJUs, Carousell, Druva, GO-JEK, OYO Rooms, Tokopedia, Truecaller, Zilingo, Zomato and more. We spur founders to push the boundaries of what’s possible. In partnering with Sequoia, startups benefit from 47 years of tribal knowledge and lessons learned working with companies like Airbnb, Alibaba, Apple, Dropbox, Google, JD.com, LinkedIn, Meituan and Stripe early on.
From the beginning, non-profits have been the backbone of our LP base, which means founders’ accomplishments make a meaningful difference. The majority of our profits – over $16 billion since 2000 alone – are returned to great causes, like the Ford Foundation, Mayo Clinic and MIT. For more information on Sequoia's work in India and SE Asia, visit sequoiacap.com/india
This event is exclusive to LEVEL3 startup founders and CEOs. Due to limited availability, we are only able to accommodate one representative per startup.
