Strong company foundations compound in value over time. That's why we created Arc, a company building immersion designed to help Sequoia's pre-seed and seed-stage founders build businesses that endure. Accelerate your journey with access to Sequoia’s 50+ years of experience partnering with category-defining legends. Elevate your game by joining our exceptional community of outliers.
Applications for Arc Spring '25 will open on February 3rd, 2025.
The Spring cohort will kick off on April 21st. Sign up below to get notified when applications go live.
Elevate your Game
“Participating in Arc was a transformative experience that perfectly aligned with our process of exploring what to build. We leveraged the weekly learnings to iterate faster, and we discovered how to be practical about finding product-market fit—removing the emotion and celebrating learning from failures to quickly move on.”
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“As founders, it’s easy to get pulled in the day to day and try to just get the next thing done. Arc taught me that, sometimes, we need to take a step back to leap forward. We should not mistake motion for progress.”
“What you learn in Arc is applicable from day 1 and is grounded in pragmatism. Sequoia partners and operators helped us navigate the product-market fit journey and provided frameworks that we continue to revisit as we scale. The Arc community is also unparalleled.”
“Arc redefined how we think about company building. My co-founders and I have lots of insights from building PayPal, YouTube and more, but Arc helped us intentionally lay the right foundation. We learned how to be more empathetic about the people we’re serving, which informed our company culture, our product and how we go-to-market.”
“As a founder, you don't know what you don't know. Arc provides years of learnings from some of the most brilliant people in the space, condensed down to these short lectures full of golden nuggets. It's a very time efficient way to learn all of these things.”
“While my career provided the insights to build Meeno, Arc helped me uncover my personal motivation to solve the loneliness problem, which gave rise to a more holistic approach to product development and storytelling. The program also helped us gauge new benchmarks for product-market fit in a post-generative AI world, thanks to introducing a community of founders who I can trust to be open with.”
Accelerate your Journey
GUEST SPEAKERS
JESS LEE
PARTNER AT SEQUOIA
Sebastian Siemiatkowski
Founder and CEO of Klarna
Kevin Systrom
Founder of Instagram
Lynn Jurich
Co-Founder and former CEO of Sunrun
ROELOF BOTHA
PARTNER AT SEQUOIA
Ivan Zhao
Founder and CEO of NOTION
Miki Kuusi
CEO of Wolt and Head of DoorDash International
Alfred LIN
PARTNER AT SEQUOIA
SUMAIYA BALBALE
Operating Partner AT SEQUOIA
Ilkka Paananen
CEO of Supercell
BRIAN HALLIGAN
Co-founder of hubspot
FAQ
- 01/What is ArcArc is our company building immersion designed to help Sequoia's pre-seed and seed-stage founders build companies that endure. Over 5 weeks, you will accelerate your journey by establishing strong company foundations through Sequoia’s proprietary company building workshops. You’ll also become part of our exceptional community of outliers, whom you can lean on and learn from along the way.
- 02/Who should apply to Arc?Arc is for pre-seed and seed-stage founders actively working on an idea, product and company. You can come to us with an idea and no lines of code, or an MVP with early customer traction. Sequoia founders come from a variety of backgrounds: some are first or second-time founders, while others have helped scale top tech companies.
- 03/What dates will Arc take place this year?Arc Spring ‘25 will run Monday, April 21st - Friday, May 16th.
Arc Fall ‘25 will kick off in early October. - 04/Can companies from both the Americas and Europe apply?Yes. Arc is open to companies headquartered in the Americas and Europe.
- 05/Is Arc in person?The first and last week of the program will be in person. The remaining weeks will be held remotely via Zoom.
- 06/Is travel required?Yes. For each Arc cohort, expect to spend 3 days in New York City and 3 days in the Bay Area.
- 07/What is the schedule?Arc is a hybrid in-person/virtual experience with workshops that take place over a month. The first and last week of the program will be in person. The remaining weeks will be held remotely via Zoom.
- 08/How many companies are in the program?Each Arc cohort will consist of ~10-15 companies. All co-founders of a company are strongly encouraged to attend.
- 09/What are the terms?Every new pre-seed or seed stage partnership with Sequoia is unique. As such any terms are company specific.
What do I receive as part of Arc?
- 01/The Power of Team SequoiaFrom the weekly workshops to 1:1s with our partners and operators, you’ll have the full support of our team.
- 02/AmpersandOur digital hub for founders with self-serve company building resources, content and Sequoia’s network rolodex, including access to our Builder community.
- 03/Marketplace CreditsSequoia founders are eligible for 200+ exclusive benefits, including:
NVIDIA - up to $500k in savings
Microsoft Azure - up to $350k in credits
Datadog - up to $100k in credits
Replicate - $75k in credits
Modal - $25k in credits
Anthropic - $10k in credits
Fireworks AI - $10k in credits
Linear - up to $9k in savings
GitHub - up to $7,500 in savings
Render - $5k in credits
Pilot - $3k in savings
Vercel - $1,200 in credits…And 200+ more including AWS, OpenAI, Google Cloud, ElevenLabs, and more.