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Orange badge, two capital letters, the name of the accelerator behind Airbnb and Dropbox
Y Combinator (YC)
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Dev Ittycheria
This non-public tech company valued above $1 billion derives its mythical name from a single-horned creature.
Unicorn
Sequoia was the sole VC backer of this messaging app when Facebook bought it for $19 billion in 2014
The value of a company before a new round of funding is added
pre-money valuation
Lowercase wordmark of a firm co-founded by the creator of the Netscape browser
a16z
systems capable of executing complex multi-step tasks autonomously have driven major capital flows
Agentic AI
Greylock-backed professional networking site that Microsoft bought for $26.2 billion in 2016
This convertible note alternative, popularized by Y Combinator, stands for Simple Agreement for Future Equity
SAFE
All-caps minimalist black-and-white wordmark for the firm founded in 1972 that backed Apple and Google
Sequoia Capital
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San Francisco-based software company for residential real estate data and workflows, raised $18M from Parker89, Stackpoint, Alpaca VC, FJ Labs
Mainstay
Accel-backed workplace messaging company that Salesforce acquired for roughly $27.7 billion in 2021
Slack
This right lets an investor keep their same ownership percentage by investing more in later rounds
pro-rata right
Two-letter monogram for the firm
Founders Fund
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GTM @ Parallel
Famous VC essay on software written by
Marc Andreessen
Sequoia-backed video conferencing company that IPO'd in 2019 and boomed during the pandemic
Zoom
This document, often a spreadsheet, lists who owns what percentage of a startup
cap table
Simple teal wordmark for a European-rooted firm behind Dropbox, Etsy, and Discord
Index Ventures
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VC isn't Shark Tank
famous vc that has invested most in software companies
Insight Partners
This cloud data company, backed by Sequoia among others, had the largest software IPO in history in 2020
Snowflake
This term describes the payout an investor gets before common shareholders when a company is sold
liquidation preference