Biggest launches
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | 204M | 2,087,211 | 1 May 2026 |
| OpenAI | 139M | 5,492,151 | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Grok Bot | 46M | 489,890 | 2 Sep 2026 |
| SpaceX | 44.8M | 41,942,134 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| TypeSafe AI | 40.1M | 1,500 | 15 Sep 2026 |
| Sierra | 26.2M | 13,316 | 4 May 2026 |
| Tavus | 21.2M | 11,500 | 1 Oct 2026 |
| ElevenLabs | 15.2M | 209,154 | 4 Feb 2026 |
| Etched | 7.8M | 61,140 | 18 Aug 2026 |
| OpenEvidence | 6.8M | 38,407 | 21 May 2026 |
| The Boring Company | 6.6M | 1,196,633 | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Linear | 6.3M | 115,357 | 25 Mar 2026 |
Breakouts from small accounts
Launches from accounts under 10,000 followers that passed 250K views, one per company.
| Company | Views | Followers when posted | Against following |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odessia | 5.1M | 6,833 | 752x |
| Rox | 1.7M | 1,482 | 1,153x |
| Firetiger | 1.6M | 1,266 | 1,251x |
| Cresta | 849K | 1,845 | 460x |
| Astrocade | 739K | 4,158 | 178x |
| Cisco AI | 529K | 3,088 | 171x |
| Serval | 358K | 2,083 | 172x |
Launch, then a raise
Launches followed by a funding round within 90 days.
| Company | Launch | Then |
|---|---|---|
| TypeSafe AI | 40.1M15 Sep 2026 | Funding announced on X24 days later |
| Odessia | 5.1M2 Jun 2026 | Funding announced on X8 days later |
| ElevenLabs | 558K9 Jan 2026 | Funding announced on X26 days later |
| Harvey | 249K18 Aug 2026 | Funding announced on X22 days later |
Who Sequoia invests alongside
The firms most often on the same cap tables, by number of shared portfolio companies in the directory.
| Firm | Shared companies |
|---|---|
| a16z | 24 of 56 |
| SV Angel | 22 of 56 |
| NVIDIA | 17 of 56 |
| Kleiner Perkins | 15 of 56 |
| Coatue | 10 of 56 |
| Lightspeed | 10 of 56 |
| Khosla Ventures | 9 of 56 |
| Salesforce Ventures | 9 of 56 |
| Tiger Global | 9 of 56 |
| Thrive Capital | 8 of 56 |
By category
| Category | Launches | Median views |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier labs | 81 | 3.4M |
| Developer tools | 56 | 1.4M |
| Consumer and creative AI | 24 | 1.1M |
| Creative AI | 14 | 2.7M |
| Fintech | 8 | 791K |
| Enterprise AI | 8 | 662K |
| Healthtech and regulated AI | 7 | 1M |
| Chips and AI infrastructure | 6 | 1.3M |
Sequoia portfolio companies on X
| Company | Launches | Total views | Biggest launch |
|---|---|---|---|
| xAI | 29 | 670.3M | 204M1 May 2026 |
| OpenAI | 68 | 437.1M | 139M3 Sep 2026 |
| Grok Bot | 10 | 194.2M | 46M2 Sep 2026 |
| SpaceX | 2 | 50.8M | 44.8M25 Aug 2026 |
| TypeSafe AI | 4 | 45.1M | 40.1M15 Sep 2026 |
| ElevenLabs | 13 | 40.6M | 15.2M4 Feb 2026 |
| Sierra | 3 | 28.7M | 26.2M4 May 2026 |
| Tavus | 5 | 24.8M | 21.2M1 Oct 2026 |
| Etched | 2 | 15.4M | 7.8M18 Aug 2026 |
| OpenEvidence | 3 | 9.5M | 6.8M21 May 2026 |
| Odessia | 3 | 8.3M | 5.1M2 Jun 2026 |
| Linear | 4 | 6.9M | 6.3M25 Mar 2026 |
| The Boring Company | 1 | 6.6M | 6.6M10 Sep 2026 |
| Whop | 5 | 5.6M | 1.5M21 Oct 2026 |
| Skild AI | 2 | 5.2M | 3.6M25 Aug 2026 |
| Decart | 2 | 4.9M | 4.8M16 Jul 2026 |
| Valar Atomics | 1 | 3.2M | 3.2M3 Aug 2026 |
| Reflection | 1 | 2.5M | 2.5M5 Oct 2026 |
| fal | 5 | 2.3M | 2M27 Aug 2026 |
| Sesame | 1 | 2.2M | 2.2M6 Oct 2026 |
| Mirage | 1 | 1.9M | 1.9M22 Sep 2026 |
| Rox | 2 | 1.7M | 1.7M18 Aug 2026 |
| Cresta | 2 | 1.6M | 849K23 Sep 2026 |
| Firetiger | 1 | 1.6M | 1.6M8 Jun 2026 |
| Cerebras | 1 | 1.6M | 1.6M19 Aug 2026 |
| Stripe | 1 | 1.5M | 1.5M29 Apr 2026 |
| With Coverage | 1 | 1.4M | 1.4M12 Aug 2026 |
| Inworld AI | 1 | 1.2M | 1.2M2 Sep 2026 |
| CopyRebeldia | 1 | 1M | 1M15 May 2026 |
| OpenRouter | 4 | 984K | 701K19 Aug 2026 |
| Flapping Airplanes | 1 | 865K | 865K21 Oct 2026 |
| Mercury | 1 | 856K | 856K16 Sep 2026 |
| Astrocade | 1 | 739K | 739K5 May 2026 |
| Block | 1 | 625K | 625K23 Oct 2026 |
| Unity | 1 | 621K | 621K21 Jul 2026 |
| Catalyst | 1 | 599K | 599K8 Oct 2026 |
| ElevenCreative | 2 | 581K | 465K1 Oct 2026 |
| Glean | 1 | 536K | 536K26 Aug 2026 |
| Cisco AI | 1 | 529K | 529K21 Jul 2026 |
| Starcloud | 1 | 489K | 489K21 Aug 2026 |
| Harvey | 3 | 460K | 249K18 Aug 2026 |
| Physical Intelligence | 1 | 417K | 417K13 Oct 2026 |
| Applied Compute | 3 | 406K | 209K25 Aug 2026 |
| Parallel | 1 | 403K | 403K13 Jul 2026 |
| Serval | 2 | 377K | 358K29 Oct 2026 |
| Flow Engineering | 1 | 249K | 249K30 Sep 2026 |
| Formation Bio | 1 | 237K | 237K28 Oct 2026 |
| Pace | 1 | 236K | 236K27 May 2026 |
| Profound | 2 | 225K | 223K15 Sep 2026 |
| Temporal | 1 | 214K | 214K14 Sep 2026 |
| Rippling AI | 1 | 119K | 119K22 Sep 2026 |
| Waymo | 1 | 95K | 95K22 Sep 2026 |
| Bunkerhill Health | 1 | 87K | 87K16 Jul 2026 |
| Amplitude | 2 | 67K | 56K1 Sep 2026 |
| ElevenLabs Developers | 1 | 9K | 9K14 Sep 2026 |
Questions
Which Sequoia portfolio companies launch on X?
55 Sequoia-backed companies have 212 launches in the Doomers launch directory. The biggest by total views are xAI, OpenAI, Grok Bot.
What was the biggest launch from a Sequoia-backed company?
xAI, with 204M views on 1 May 2026.
How do Sequoia-backed launches compare with other launches on X?
The median Sequoia-backed launch did 1.6M views, against 602K across every launch we track. 61% passed a million views. By median views the portfolio ranks 5 of the 20 firms we report on.
Where does this data come from?
Views, followers and dates are read from X. A company counts as backed when the firm invested in any round on record, matched to investment records by the company's website, plus companies whose own posts name the firm.
A known gap: about four in ten companies have no investment record yet, mostly the newest, so very young portfolio companies are under-counted.