Shaun Maguire

Partner at Sequoia Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Experience

  • Partner at Sequoia Capital
    Jul 2019 - Present · 7 yrs

    I'm lucky to be a Partner at Sequoia Capital, where I've led a variety of investments: Hardware: - SpaceX - The Boring Company - Lightmatter - Neros - AMP Sortation - Reflect - Senra - Flux Photonics - Mach (Co-led with Stephanie Zhan) AI: - xAI - Decart - Factory - Foundry - Irregular Enterprise: - Eon - Glow - Knowde - Skyramp - Watershed (Co-Led with Mike Moritz and Pat Grady) - Monad - Phsyna Fintech - Vise Consumer - Twitter (co-led with a few of my partners) - Gather Crypto: - Bridge.xyz - LayerZero - Blockaid - Privy - Caldera - Tiplink - Zellic - And liquid purchases of BTC, ETH, SOL and TON

  • Co-Founder and Chairman at Expanse (formerly Qadium)
    May 2012 - Dec 2020 · 8 yrs 8 mos

    Acquired by Palo Alto Networks ($PANW) for $1.25B in December 2020. Expanse was originally called Qadium. It spun out of work my co-founders and I did at DARPA.

  • Partner at GV
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Led or co-led the A in: Dandelion Energy, IonQ ($IONQ), Lambda School, Spinlaunch, Lightmatter (with Tyson Clark and Erik Nordlander) Investor in: Opendoor, Stripe; and sourced Segment