The AI opportunity is massive, but only for those moving fast enough to seize it. Pat Grady Sonya Huang 🐥 & @konstantine share their thoughts on the opportunities and challenges in AI today, and why this is the time to "go at maximum velocity” in our 2025 AI Ascent keynote.

The Polar Open Source Stack™ ✨ Python Backend > FastAPI by Sebastián Ramírez > Pydantic > SQLAlchemy > Authlib by Hsiaoming Yang > React Email by Resend > APScheduler > Starlette, HTTPX & Uvicorn > Dramatiq Frontend > Next.js > shadcn > Tailwind CSS > Motion by Matt Perry > React

From unicorn 🦄 to IPO 🚀 and still scaling. Join Chris Chiodo (VP, Platform Eng @ Klaviyo) at the Engineering Excellence Summit Boston for a behind-the-scenes look at scaling platform teams in hypergrowth. 📅 May 21 | ⏰ 12–5 PM 🎤 Raffles Boston 👉 events.cortex.io/engineeringexc…

ChatGPT was a happy accident. At this year’s AI Ascent, Sam Altman recounted OpenAI's journey from scrappy research lab to platform company, and laid out a surprisingly specific roadmap for AI's evolution in the next 2-3 years. 👀👇 seq.vc/66p

We just released FastA2A! 🎉 On the video, you can see on how to turn a Pydantic AI agent into an A2A server with a single line of code! You can also see how to turn an agent into a CLI chat application. 😁 Check it out on the latest PydanticAI version!

👀 “Wait… Temporal powers OpenAI's async workflows?” Yes, really. OpenAI uses Temporal to run complex, multi-step workflows reliably at scale. If they trust us to keep things running, imagine what we can do for you. 👉 t.mp/3Spcq5n

Test, test. Is this thing on? 🎤 Big week at Traversal: we’re officially out of stealth and we’re kicking it off with a feature in FORTUNE! Huge thanks to Allie Garfinkle for sharing our story. But we’re not just telling our story—we’re showing it. See firsthand what we’ve

Troubleshooting is deeply painful for engineers—and costly for their companies. Team Traversal is using AI agents to automate it. We at Sequoia Capital are proud to support the mission of making life better for engineering teams. sequoiacap.com/article/partne…

Why does the current state of site reliability feels like having two heart attacks a week? Why won’t AI-generated code make it into mission-critical systems? My cofounder, Raj, and I had a lovely time speaking with Bogomil Balkansky and Sonya Huang 🐥 on Sequoia Capital's Training Data

Big day for Figma, founder Dylan Field, our partner Andrew Reed and Sequoia Capital! Congratulations to all Figmates! It is a story of building a company the old-fashioned way: create a delightful product that people fall in love with, and the rest follows...

ZΞfi Roelof Botha XBOW Sequoia Capital Arc propelled us forward!

Hot take from Fawad Khaliq: Context is king in the world of AI

Partnering with Sequoia Capital can start in many ways: We found Cortex through YC; OASIS SECURITY through a landscape on identity security; Mutiny through a personal relationship; Pydantic through an intro from another founder, and Traversal through Arc. Your @Sequoia

Kubernetes has become the defacto infra platform for distributed systems. But as it often happens in the world of tech, by solving one set of problems, you end up creating a host of new ones. Every #DevOps person knows that #Kubernetes is a beast to manage, and upgrading

And coming from a second-time founder who has products like GitHub Copilot to his credit, this means a lot! Arc is a great way to connect with Sequoia Capital.

The world of #marketing is changing by the day. #AI is upending existing tactics and channels: #SEO no longer works, outbound response rates have plummeted... But at the same time, AI is marketers' new best friend, allowing them to create hyper-targeted campaigns faster and

I’m excited to announce the launch of the Chkk Upgrade Context Server + Upgrade Agent for Coding Assistants (Cursor)—an environment-aware MCP server with a Chkk Upgrade Agent that supercharges your AI coding assistants to open precise, review-ready IaC pull requests. 🧵