Aakash Kapoor
Investor
Sequoia Capital
Peak XV investor focused on fintech, payments and consumer internet across SEA and ANZ.
Bio
Professional summary
David Cahn is a partner on Sequoia's growth team. Before joining Sequoia, he worked at Coatue, where he helped build the private software portfolio and worked on investments including Snowflake, Databricks, Confluent, UiPath, GitLab and Marqeta. At Sequoia, his listed companies include Hugging Face, Notion, Clay, Kela, Sesame AI and Astrocade, and he publishes on AI infrastructure and capex.
Notable companies
Selected portfolio companies the partner has backed
Hugging FaceNotionClayKelaSesame AI
Background
Career, education, and skills
Career history
- Sequoia CapitalPartner2023 – Present
- CoatueGeneral Partner and COO of Venture2018 – 2023
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