Investing Profile

Bill Coughran

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Founder's Coach and Partner at Sequoia Capital
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Networks Bill is a member of
Stanford University Network
507 CONNECTIONS
Stanford University Network
507 CONNECTIONS
Google Network
304 CONNECTIONS
Sequoia Capital Network
60 CONNECTIONS
California Institute of Technology Network
15 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position
Sequoia Capital Partner
Investment Range
$1M - $10.0M
Sweet Spot
$5.0M
Investments On Record
52
Current Fund Size
$195M

Bill Coughran is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Bill Coughran's Investments On Record (22)

CompanyStageDateRound SizeTotal Raised
Chkk
SeedOct 2023$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital)
Graphiant
Series BMar 2023$62M
Series ADec 2020$34M
$96M
Co-investors: Michael Goguen (Two Bear Capital), Brian Long (Atlantic Bridge), J Seth Strattan PhD (Two Bear Capital)
QueryPal
SeedDec 2022$5M
$5M
Co-investors: Ashmeet Sidana (Engineering Capital)
Stairwell
Series BOct 2022$45M
Series ASep 2021$20M
SeedOct 2020$5M
$70M
Co-investors: Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures), Steve Loughlin (Accel), Andy Harrison (Section 32), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors)
Lilt
Series CApr 2022$55M
Series BMay 2020$25M
Series AOct 2018$10M
$90M
Co-investors: Mark Rostick (Intel Capital), Farouk Ladha (Four Rivers Group)
Neeva
Series BMar 2021$40M
$78M
Co-investors: Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Asheem Chandna (Greylock), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Greylock)
Graphcore
Series EDec 2020$220M
Series DDec 2018$200M
Series CNov 2017$50M
$680M
Co-investors: Stephanie Zhan (Sequoia Capital), Matthew Miller (Sequoia Capital), Daniel Docter (Dell Technologies Capital), Pieter Abbeel (AIX Ventures), Hermann Hauser (Amadeus Capital Partners), Siraj Khaliq (Atomico), Neil Shen (Sequoia Capital China), Tobias Jahn (Hitachi Ventures), Paul Holland, Shane Neman, Greg Brockman
Alkira
Series BOct 2020$54M
Series AApr 2020$22M
$76M
Co-investors: Mamoon Hamid (Kleiner Perkins), chase koch

Bill Coughran's Experience

Trustee Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA2013 - Present
Trustee TheatreWorks2012 - Present
Founder's Coach and Partner Sequoia Capital2011 - Present
SVP, Engineering Google2003 - 2011
Senior Research Vice President, Bell Labs Research Silicon Valley Bell Laboratories1998 - 2000
Vice President, Computing Sciences Research Center Bell Laboratories1996 - 1999
Internet Software Vice President / Chief Technical Officer Lucent Technologies1997 - 1998
Head, Scientific Computing Research Department Bell Laboratories1993 - 1996
Member of Technical Staff, Scientific Computing Research Department Bell Laboratories1980 - 1993
Programmer/Analyst California State University, Los Angeles1973 - 1974
Student programmer California State University, Fresno1968 - 1970

Bill Coughran's Education

Stanford University Ph.D. Computer Science
Stanford University M.S. Computer Science
California Institute of Technology BS (with honors) Mathematics
California Institute of Technology M.S. Mathematics