About This Fund
Sequoia Capital's Scout Fund is a $145.6 million early-stage venture capital vehicle managed by Sequoia Capital, the Menlo Park-based firm founded in 1972 and one of the most successful and influential venture capital firms in history, with landmark investments including Apple, Google, Oracle, Cisco, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Stripe. The Scout Fund represents an institutional pooling of capital deployed through Sequoia's proprietary Scout Program, which the firm launched in 2009 to extend its investment reach by empowering a curated network of founders, operators, and domain experts to identify and back the most promising early-stage startups on Sequoia's behalf. The fund carries a 2018 vintage, reflecting the formalization of the Scout Program into an LP-accessible fund structure.
Through the Scout Program, Sequoia provides vetted individuals — referred to as Scouts — with small amounts of capital to invest in companies at the pre-seed and seed stage, typically before institutional venture funds have meaningful visibility into these opportunities. This grassroots sourcing model enables Sequoia to access deal flow across thousands of nascent companies globally while Scout Fund investors gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of early-stage bets curated by individuals with deep domain expertise and active founder networks. The Scout Fund has made approximately 15 direct investments, operates from Sequoia Capital's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and is part of Sequoia's broader multi-vehicle platform that includes flagship US and global funds, sector funds, and growth vehicles.
The Scout Fund exemplifies Sequoia's structural innovation in venture capital, complementing the firm's 2021 launch of the Sequoia Fund — a permanent capital vehicle enabling founders to remain in the Sequoia ecosystem through multiple liquidity events. Sequoia Scouts have collectively backed over 1,000 companies since the program's inception in 2009, many of which subsequently received Sequoia follow-on capital in later rounds, validating the Scout Program as an effective pre-screening mechanism for the broader Sequoia fund family. The vehicle's formal fund structure with $145.6 million in registered assets provides institutional LP access to the Scout Program's diversified portfolio of pre-seed and seed-stage investments across the technology sector.