Investing Profile

Alfred Lin(5)

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Partner at Sequoia Capital

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Alfred Lin's investing connections

1 Investor

Connected to Pete Flint (NFX).

Networks Alfred is a member of

NewCo Network

1585 CONNECTIONS

NewCo Network

1585 CONNECTIONS

University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network

841 CONNECTIONS

University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory Network

841 CONNECTIONS

Stanford University Network

705 CONNECTIONS

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Current Investing Position

Sequoia Capital Partner

Investment Range

$1M - $10.0M

Sweet Spot

$5.0M

Investments On Record

119

Current Fund Size

$195M

Alfred Lin's Investments On Record (59)

Company	StageDateRound Size	Total Raised
Anthropic	Series HMay 2026$50B	$100B
Co-investors: Hemant Taneja (General Catalyst), Yasmin Razavi (Spark Capital), Sebastian Duesterhoeft (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Sameer Dholakia (Bessemer Venture Partners), Byron Deeter (Bessemer Venture Partners), Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX Ventures), Matt Murphy (Menlo Ventures), Anis Uzzaman (Pegasus Tech Ventures), Trevor Paladino (Lakeside Capital), Neil Mehta (Greenoaks Capital), Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Eric Schmidt (Innovation Endeavors), Siddharth Singhal (trilitech), Bernard Moon (SparkLabs Global Ventures), Brennda Reis (Friedom Partners), Vikas Sabnani (Stealth Company (Vikas Sabnani)), Jack Leeney (7GC & Co), Alexandre Perrin (Enauto Ventures), Aatish Patel (Other Ventures), Ishani Patel, Jason Haider, Elia Montanari, Adeel Hussain, Preetha Parthasarathy, Jaan Tallinn, Dustin Moskovitz
Turnkey	Series UnknownMay 2026$13M SeedMar 2023$8M	$66M
Co-investors: Stefan Cohen (Bain Capital Crypto), Samuel Harrison (Blockchain.com Ventures), Ash Egan (Archetype)
Nominal	Series BMar 2026$80M Series BJun 2025$75M	$210M
Co-investors: Ravi Mhatre (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Guru Chahal (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Trae Stephens (Founders Fund), Delian Asparouhov (Founders Fund), Paul Kwan (General Catalyst), Anas Biad (Sequoia Capital), Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital), Bilal Zuberi (Lux Capital), Kyle Lui (Bling Capital), Matthew Cowan (Next47)
Rowspace	Series AFeb 2026$50M SeedFeb 2026	$50M
Co-investors: Jake Saper (Emergence Capital), Darian Shirazi (Gradient Ventures)
Profound	Series CFeb 2026$96M Series BAug 2025$35M	$160M
Co-investors: Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures), Faraz Fatemi (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Anas Biad (Sequoia Capital), Scott Belsky (A24), Thomson Nguyen (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University), Ilya Fushman (Kleiner Perkins), Max Altman (Saga), Ben Braverman (Saga), Guillermo Rauch, Karim Atiyeh, Balaji Srinivasan
Firetiger	SeedFeb 2026$8M	$8M
Co-investors: Lauren Reeder (Sequoia Capital)
Kalshi	Series ENov 2025$1B Series DOct 2025$300M Series CJun 2025$190M Series AFeb 2021$30M	$1.6B
Co-investors: Matt Huang (Sequoia Capital), Alex Immerman (Andreessen Horowitz), Somesh Dash (IVP), Vic Koch (Gokin Solar), Sahin Boydas (Angel investor), Ali Partovi (Minttown), Donald Stalter (Sunshine Lake), Henry Kravis, Soheil Mirpour, Justin Mateen
Whatnot	Series FOct 2025$230M	$970M
Co-investors: Connie Chan (Andreessen Horowitz), Alex Taussig (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Bejul Somaia (Lightspeed Venture Partners), Isaiah Boone (Sequoia Capital), Saurabh Gupta (DST Global), Anu Hariharan (Rappi), Gokul Rajaram (Top-Patents), Laela Sturdy (CapitalG), Dustin Rosen (Wonder Ventures), Marcie Vu (Greycroft), Andre Iguodala, Ryan Tedder, Logan Paul, Steve Aoki

Alfred Lin's Experience

Member, Board of Directors Nominal2025 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Clay2025 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Formation Bio2024 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Collaborative Robotics2023 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Citadel Securities2022 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Kalshi2020 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Found2020 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Dolls Kill2019 - Present

Member, Board of Directors DoorDash2014 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Airbnb2012 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Zipline International Inc.2012 - Present

Member, Board of Directors Houzz2011 - Present

Partner Sequoia Capital2010 - Present

Member, Board of Directors CitadelPresent

Member, Board of Directors FutureAdvisorPresent

Member, Board of Directors CobotPresent

Member, Board of Directors ZiplinePresent

Member, Board of Directors Cobalt AIPresent

Member, Board of Directors Rakuten RewardsPresent

Member, Board of Directors Joyride GamesPresent

Member, Board of Directors BlackRockPresent

Member, Board of Directors AchieversPresent

Co-Founder & General Manager Self-EmployedPresent

Chairman & COO Zappos Family of CompaniesPresent

VP, Finance & Business Development Tellme NetworksPresent

VP Finance Self-EmployedPresent

VP Finance The Grameen Creative LabPresent

Co-Founder & General Manager The Grameen Creative LabPresent

Member, Board of Directors Dia & CoPresent

Co-Founder & General Manager NewCoPresent

VP Finance NewCoPresent

Co-Founder & General Manager University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

VP Finance University of Washington Applied Physics LaboratoryPresent

Co-Founder & General Manager LinkExchange (Acquired by Microsoft)Present

Co-Founder & General Manager Xtripe AngelsPresent

Co-Founder & General Manager BlueStone Capital Partners, L.P.Present

Member, Board of Directors Truework2018 - 2025

Member, Board of Directors Cobalt Robotics2018 - 2024

Member, Board of Directors Dia&Co2016 - 2024

Member, Board of Directors NEXT Trucking2020 - 2023

Member, Board of Directors Stella & Dot2010 - 2020

Member, Board of Directors Humble Bundle2011 - 2017

Member, Board of Directors Shopular (Acquired by Ebates)2015 - 2016

Member, Board of Directors Kiwi, Inc.2011 - 2015

Member, Board of Directors FutureAdvisor (Acquired by BlackRock)2015 - 2015

Member, Board of Directors Achievers (Acquired by Blackhawk Network)2011 - 2015

Co-Founder & General Manager Venture Frogs, LLC1999 - 2014

Chairman & COO Zappos.com (Acquired by Amazon.com)2005 - 2010

VP, Finance & Business Development Tellme Networks (Acquired by Microsoft)2001 - 2005

VP Finance LinkExchange (Acquired by Microsoft)1996 - 1998

Alfred Lin's Education

Stanford University M.S. Statistics

Harvard University B.A. Applied Mathematics

Stuyvesant High School High School

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