Peak XV Partners (formerly Sequoia Capital India & SEA)

Summary

Sequoia Capital India appeared to be the VC, which was created in 2000. The main department of described VC is located in the Bengaluru. The company was established in Asia in India.

The current fund was established by KP Balaraj, Raj Dugar, Sandeep Singhal, SK Jain, Sumir Chadha. Besides them, we counted 3 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 3-4 partakers. Despite the Sequoia Capital India, startups are often financed by BEENEXT, Wavemaker Partners, Omidyar Network. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Norwest Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Greenoaks Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Tiger Global Management, Maverick Ventures, SAIF Partners.

Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Go-Jek, Tokopedia, Oyo Rooms. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are SaaS, Internet. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - India.

The high activity for fund was in 2019. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 10 - 50 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in 13-24 investment rounds annually. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2018. The typical startup value when the investment from Sequoia Capital India is 500 millions - 1 billion dollars. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 43 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Comparing to the other companies, this Sequoia Capital India performs on 18 percentage points less the average number of lead investments.