Investing Profile

Carl Eschenbach

VCInvestor

Partner at Sequoia Capital

sequoiacap.com/people/carl-es...San Francisco Bay Area

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Networks Carl is a member of

Sequoia Capital Network

204 CONNECTIONS

Sequoia Capital Network

204 CONNECTIONS

Dell Technologies Network

90 CONNECTIONS

VMware Network

62 CONNECTIONS

Dell Network

31 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Sequoia Capital Partner

Investment Range

$10.0M - $200.0M

Sweet Spot

$25.0M

Investments On Record

Current Fund Size

$195M

Carl Eschenbach is on these Sector & Stage Rankings

Cloud Infrastructure (Series B)Consumer Internet (Series B)San Francisco Bay Area Enterprise Infrastructure (Series B)

Carl Eschenbach's Investments On Record (16)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Cresta	Series DNov 2024$130M Series BMar 2021$50M	$280M
Co-investors: Ben Horowitz (Andreessen Horowitz), Douglas Leone (Sequoia Capital), Saam Motamedi (Greylock), Josephine Chen (Sequoia Capital), Jake Seid (Ballistic Ventures), Rob Theis (World Innovation Lab (WiL)), Andy Bechtolsheim
Kumo.AI	Series BSep 2022$18M Series AApr 2022$19M	$37M
Co-investors: Kevin Hartz (Founders Fund), Ron Conway (SV Angel), Ronald Conway Sr. (NewCo), Rob Eldridge (Alliance of Angels), Sridhar Ramaswamy (Greylock Partners), Michael Stoppelman (Self-employed)
Grafana Labs	Series DApr 2022$240M Series CAug 2021$220M	$800M
Co-investors: Gaurav Gupta (Lightspeed Venture Partners), James Ephrati (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), David Schneider (Coatue Management)
Salt Security	Series DFeb 2022$140M Series CMay 2021$70M Series BDec 2020$30M	$270M
Co-investors: Bogomil Balkansky (Sequoia Capital), Ayala (Aya) Peterburg (Sinensis Seed Capital SCR), René Bonvanie (Fireblocks), Marius Nacht (Cyberstarts VC), Haim Sadger (S Capital VC), Tom Banahan (Tenaya Capital), Sam Fort (DFJ Growth), James Luo (CapitalG), Kevin Mahaffey (Lookout), Ali Rowghani (Y Combinator)
Retool	Series CDec 2021$20M Series BOct 2020$50M Series AApr 2019$25M	$140M
Co-investors: Bryan Schreier (Sequoia Capital), Caryn Marooney (Coatue), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Nat Friedman (Self-employed), Andrew Miklas (Y Combinator), Daniel Gross (Various), Patrick Collison (Archipelagos, Institute of Marine Conservation), Derrick Li (Moving Capital), Pedro Franceschi (Coupang), Jay Simons (Bond), John Collison, Joshua Reeves, Paul Graham, Peter Reinhardt
Gong	Series EJun 2021$250M Series DAug 2020$200M Series CDec 2019$65M	$580M
Co-investors: Dharmesh Thakker (Battery Ventures), Peter Wagner (Wing Venture Capital), Nina Achadjian (Index Ventures), Sonya Huang (Sequoia Capital), Shlomo Kramer (Skinos Family Office), Dror Nahumi (Norwest Venture Partners), Ben Fu (NewView Capital), Sunil Chhaya (Kearny Jackson), Rob Biederman (Asymmetric Capital Partners), Alex Kayyal (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Ryan Biggs (Franklin Templeton Investments), Giora Kaplan, Abrahami Avishai
CaptivateIQ	Series AMay 2020$13M	$170M
Co-investors: Cathy Gao (Sapphire Ventures), Brian Feinstein (Bessemer Venture Partners), Joanne Chen (Foundation Capital), Tod Sacerdoti (Flex Capital, LLC // Turbo Ventures, LLC), Elad Gil (Gil Capital / Gil & Co), Gokul Rajaram (gokulrajaram.com), Patrick Yang (Amity Ventures), Ben Fletcher (Accel-KKR), Doug Pepper (ICONIQ Capital), Somrat Niyogi (Recall Capital), Frederic Kerrest
Aurora	Series BJun 2019$600M	$690M
Co-investors: Raviraj Jain (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Reid Hoffman (Greylock), Warrick Shanly (Rockpool Investments), Alvaro Alvarez del Rio (Boost Capital Partners), Jussi Salovaara (Antler), Nicholas Shekerdemian (The Venture Collective (TVC)), Alex Macdonald (sequel), Pippa Lamb (Sweet Capital), Errol Damelin (White Lion Ventures), Mike Volpi (Hanabi Capital), Bennett Cohen (Piva Capital), Ravi Mhatre (Kamanu Ventures & Lightspeed Venture Partners Scout), Chris Park (UL Ventures)

Carl Eschenbach's Experience

VP, North America Sales Inktomi CorporationPresent

Global Accounts Executive DellPresent

Global Accounts Executive Dell TechnologiesPresent

President and Chief Operating Officer VMwarePresent

Board Member Palo Alto NetworksPresent

Board Member Zoom Video CommunicationsPresent

Board Member CohesityPresent

Board Member ThousandEyes (part of Cisco)Present

Board Member WorkdayPresent

Board Member UiPathPresent

Board Member Snowflake ComputingPresent

Board Member AuroraPresent

Board Member Armis SecurityPresent

Board Member Gong.ioPresent

Board Observer RetoolPresent

Board Member Salt SecurityPresent

Board Member CrestaPresent

Advisor Board McLaren RacingPresent

Board Grafana LabsPresent

Board Observer Kumo.AIPresent

Partner Sequoia CapitalPresent

Venture Partner Sequoia CapitalPresent

Co-CEO WorkdayPresent

Chief Executive Officer WorkdayPresent

Strategic Advisor to the CEO WorkdayPresent

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