2 years ago
Storied task superior steadfast Sequoia Capital is looking to rise $500 cardinal to $600 cardinal for its archetypal sector-specific crypto fund. The money is 1 of the archetypal sub-funds launched aft the firm’s large restructuring, announced successful October.
Sequoia’s restructuring shifts the steadfast distant from a accepted task superior operation and timeline of returning the investments of constricted partners (LP) wrong 10 years. Sequoia present funnels each investments done the Sequoia Fund, an open-ended liquid portfolio of nationalist positions successful a prime radical of companies. The money past allocates superior to a bid of closed-end sub funds.
Sequoia Crypto Fund is 1 of the archetypal sub-funds. In an interrogation with CoinDesk, a institution authoritative besides confirmed a $900 cardinal to $950 cardinal Ecosystem sub-fund that lets prime founders of portfolio firms put successful different related companies, and a $3.2 cardinal to $3.5 cardinal Expansion sub-fund focused connected growth-stage companies.
Investing successful the ‘full stack’
The Sequoia Crypto Fund volition chiefly absorption connected investing successful liquid tokens and integer assets.
“While we’ve invested successful some equity and tokens implicit the past 5 years, galore person asked that we instrumentality a much progressive relation successful managing our tokens, including staking them, providing liquidity, participating successful governance and trading done their platforms,” said Sequoia partners Michelle Bailhe, Shaun Maguire and Alfred Lin successful the announcement post.
In an interrogation with CoinDesk, Bailhe said the money is investing “full stack,” including successful furniture 1 protocols, furniture 2 add-on systems, the information layer, decentralized concern (DeFi), centralized applications, payments, gaming, Web 3, non-fungible tokens (NFT), and user and endeavor infrastructure.
“I deliberation the absorbing happening astir this infinitesimal successful crypto is that immoderate radical are approaching each of those sectors with much token-driven models and immoderate radical are approaching it with equities,” said Bailhe. “We wanted to person a afloat stack product, from effect done liquid tokens, for the founders we enactment with crossed each of these sectors.”
Why a crypto-specific fund?
Despite the motorboat of a crypto-specific fund, Sequoia volition proceed to spouse with crypto teams crossed the seed, venture, maturation and enlargement funds, which person combined commitments of implicit $7.5 billion.
Why, then, would Sequoia besides motorboat a crypto-specific fund?
“Part of wherefore Sequoia has ne'er had a assemblage circumstantial money is that we deliberation it’s a superpower for everyone to stock accusation and beryllium truly adjacent to each other,” Shaun Maguire told CoinDesk.
“We wanted to person a equilibrium wherever we tin determination truly accelerated and truly nimble with an adept level cognition of crypto, but besides [make sure] the learnings are being shared crossed each of Sequoia,” Maguire added.
Maguire noted that radical astatine Sequoia “have been astir crypto for a agelong time,” but the assemblage became much of a firm-wide effort successful the past year.
“Last year, implicit 20% of the full firm’s investments went into crypto successful the U.S. and Europe,” Maguire noted.
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