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Michael Moritz

Chairman at Crankstart

Menlo Park, California

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $200,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Skills

E-commerce
Start-ups
Venture Capital
Marketing
Strategic Partnerships
Leadership
Management
Board Governance

Education

Investments

Sola Security

Seed

Total Funding: $28M

Formation Bio

Series C

Total Funding: $530M

Watershed

Series A

Total Funding: $110M

WireScreen

Seed

Total Funding: $14M

Klarna

Series B

Total Funding: $4B

Stripe

Seed

Total Funding: $8.7B

Instacart

Series A

Total Funding: $1.8B

Outside

Series B

Total Funding: $170M

Strava

Series D

Total Funding: $150M

Geneva

Seed

Total Funding: $10M

Getir

Series A

Total Funding: $1.4B

Coupang

Venture Round

Total Funding: $2.5B

Berkeley Lights

Series C

Total Funding: $250M

Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

Series Unknown

Total Funding:

Monzo

Series D

Total Funding: $1.7B

Skai

Series A

Total Funding: $49M

Skyscanner

Series Unknown

Total Funding:

WhatsApp

Series A

Total Funding: $60M

POPSUGAR

Series A

Total Funding: $46M

Green Dot

Series A

Total Funding: $33M

LinkedIn

Series A

Total Funding: $160M

HealthCentral

Post Ipo Equity

Total Funding: $50M

KAYAK

Series B

Total Funding: $220M

A123 Systems

Series B

Total Funding: $100M

GameFly

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Pure Digital Technologies

Series F

Total Funding: $40M

Eons

Series A

Total Funding: $32M

ITA Software

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $100M

Zappos

Series D

Total Funding: $34M

Earth Networks

Series B

Total Funding: $23M

Plaxo

Series A

Total Funding: $20M

WeatherBug

Series B

Total Funding: $23M

[24]7.ai

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $22M

CenterRun

Series A

Total Funding: $11M

Atom Entertainment

Series A

Total Funding: $23M

PayPal

Seed

Total Funding: $130M

Saba Software

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $30M

Macromedia

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $44M

Google

Series A

Total Funding: $26M

Quote.com

Series B

Total Funding:

Agile Software

Series Unknown

Total Funding:

Yahoo

Series A

Total Funding: $7M

Work Experience

  • Senior Advisor, Sequoia Heritage

    2023

  • Partner

    1986

  • Partner

    1986 - 2023

    With offices in the U.S., China, India, and Israel, Sequoia Capital provides seed, early, and growth stage venture financings and provided the original major financings for Google, YouTube, PayPal, Yahoo!, WhatsApp, Zoom, Apple, Cisco, nVidia, Stripe, Instacart and Klarna among others.

Crankstart

2005

  • Chairman

    2005

    Crankstart - supporting vulnerable individuals and organisations