JC

Josephine Chen

Partner at Sequoia Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

    Sequoia helps daring founders build legendary companies from idea to IPO and beyond. We spur founders to push the boundaries of what’s possible. In partnering with Sequoia, companies benefit from 50+ years of tribal knowledge from working with founders like Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Jan Koum, Brian Chesky, Drew Houston, Adi Tatarko, Julia Hartz and Jack Dorsey. In aggregate, Sequoia-backed companies account for more than 20% of NASDAQ's total value.

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    Led Seed. Crosby is building an agentic law firm.

2024

  • Board Director

    2024

    Led Series A. Freed is building an AI assistant for physicians, starting with documentation.

2024

  • Investor

    2024

    Led Seed. Rox helps businesses secure and grow revenue.

2023

  • Board Observer

    2023

    Led Series A. Bridge is an entirely new payments platform, built with stablecoins, to simplify global money movement. Acquired by Stripe.

2021

  • Board Director

    2021

    Led Seed. Abby Care helps family caregivers get paid.

2021

  • Investor

    2021

    Led Seed. Wallet and onboarding infrastructure. Acquired by Stripe.

2021

  • Investor

    2021

    Benchling makes biotech research and development faster and more collaborative. Biotechnology has the potential to solve humanity’s most pressing challenges, such as disease, renewable energy, clean water, and hunger. The brightest minds are working on these problems but they are equipped with archaic tools. We aspire to fix this and increase the rate of scientific output with a web-based platform that allows researchers to design and run experiments, analyze data, and share results.

2020

  • Board Observer

    2020

    Led Series A. Found is building business banking and tax tools for the quickly growing independent workforce.

  • Board Observer

    2019

    Led Series A. Applying AI and robotics to modernize recycling, enabling a world without waste.