Sequoia Capital hires Admob founder to ramp up investments in mobile

Hamoui will focus on early-stage investments in mobile, the firm tells me, and he'll be based in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley investors ponder the “next big thing” in health care

Will the Sand Hill Road firms open their check books for you? We caught up with Sequoia Capital's Warren Hogarth and Morgenthaler Ventures' Missy Krasner to dig deeper into their investment thesis.

MadeiraCloud nabs $1.5M from Sequoia for AWS-based visual cloud management

Amazon Web Services visualization startup MadeiraCloud has raised an undisclosed sum from Sequoia Capital, but a source tells us it's in the "low single millions."

Sequoia Capital confirms stealthy army of early-stage deal scouts

Prestigious venture capital firm Sequoia Capital confirms existence of its Scout Seed Fund, which provides entrepreneurs with liquidity to make angel investments in early-stage startups.

The DeanBeat: After Zynga’s crash, game investments dive 42 percent in 2012

Game investments were red hot in the first half, but slowed after Zynga's sinking market value crushed valuations.

With its data warehouse for hospitals, Health Catalyst pulls in $33M

HealthCatalyst is the latest health technology startup to benefit from the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, which mandates that health providers and hospitals shift to to electronic records.

Sequoia Capital raises $700M fund to play a heavyweight, global game

Sequoia's latest VC fund is big, global, and aimed at later-stage growth companies.

Sequoia Capital is (probably not) raising funds again [UPDATED]

Sequoia Capital is fixin’ to raise a chunk of change for a new seed fund, according to an SEC filing this morning.

UPDATED 12:14 p.m. PT: Sequoia writes us to say they are not, in fact, raising funds. The Form …

Forget Facebook! Meet 12 investors on the hunt for the next Microsoft

While consumer-focused companies like Facebook and Zynga exploded, business software startups have been quietly scoring household-name customers with multi-million dollar budgets, kicking legacy players off their pedestal, and filing for higher-than-expected IPOs.

For a look behind VC curtain, check out Sequoia Capital’s new website

Every three years or so, Sequoia Capital, one of Silicon Valley’s most accomplished venture capital firms, grabs our attention with a not-so-subtle change to its website.

In 2009, it changed the site to feature a simple search bar (see partial …

Bit9 raises $34.5M to fight cybercrime (and maybe the League of Shadows)

Online security company Bit9 just announced the close of $34.5 million funding from some of the biggest names in venture capital. This is Bit9′s fourth round, and it’s led by Sequoia Capital. The round also includes existing investors Atlas Ventures, …

Meet our MobileBeat 2012 speakers: Designer Yves Béhar, Pandora’s Tom Conrad, & more

We’re just over two weeks away from MobileBeat 2012, VentureBeat’s annual mobile conference, and we’ve lined up some of the biggest names in the industry to delve into the event’s core theme: “Design is the new battleground.”

We’ve snagged Yves …