Stephanie Zhan

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States10 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • General Partner at Sequoia Capital since 2015.
  • Board member for multiple innovative AI startups.
  • Focus on superintelligence and transformative technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in AI and technology investment with a focus on innovative startups.

Contact

zhan@sequoiacap.comLinkedIn

About

General Partner @Sequoia on our early stage team. Here to be your first and long term partner, from your angel / seed to Series A and beyond. Serve on the boards of Linear, Middesk, Rec Room, Reflection AI, Ricursive Intelligence, Skild AI. Also: Tavus, Mach, Evy. On quest for superintelligence. I’d love to hear from you: szhan@sequoiacap.com X: @stephzhan

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
5 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Ricursive intelligence

Board Member

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

  • Led first round. Building the first frontier lab around AI for chip design. Founded by Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini, the creators and leaders of AlphaChip, which shaped four generations of the Google TPU. Now focused on applying AI to transform chip design for the rest of the industry.

Reflectionai

Board Member

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Led first round. Founded by the pioneers behind AlphaGo/AlphaZero/MuZero and Gemini, Misha Laskin and Ioannis Antonoglou. Our goal is to build frontier open superintelligence.

Skild ai

Board Member

Jun 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Led first round. Founded by legendary researchers Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, who have shaped the AI robotics industry over the last decade. Building a foundation model for our physical world.

Mach industries

Investor

Apr 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Led Seed. Building a modern defense company.

Evy

Investor

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Led seed. At Evy, we make product protection easy for merchants to offer to their customers, driving revenue growth and customer loyalty.

Tavus

Investor

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Led Seed. AI research lab building the future of conversational video interfaces.

Linear

Board Member

Jul 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 10 mos

  • Led Seed and Series A. A purpose-built tool for planning and building products. We wanted to create the tools that enable teams towards progress, built around speed, efficiency, and delight. The go-to for modern companies.

Middesk

Board Member

Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos

  • Invested in Seed and led Series A. Middesk aims to redefine how businesses build trusted relationships, with complete and reliable data at scale and a suite of products including business verifications, legal and regulatory checks, and industry classification products for companies selling to businesses.

Ethos life

Investor

Jun 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

  • Led the Seed and Series A. Ethos provides modern, ethical life insurance to protect the life you're building and the people you love. Ethos is built for people who don't have time for fine print, extra doctors appointments or hidden fees. We transformed a 15-week process of paper applications and medical exams, into just the click of a button - by quantifying the user’s health risk using predictive models.

Rec room inc.

Board Member

Aug 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

  • Led Seed, Series A, and Series D. The online universe where you play and create games with friends. Discover millions of player created worlds and games, play multiplayer games like Paintball, or just chill in the park. It's free and cross-platform (i.e., Oculus, PlayStation, Steam, & iOS), so come and join the fun!

Sequoia capital

Partner

Jul 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 10 mos · Menlo Park, CA

  • General Partner at Sequoia. From your Seed to Series A & beyond. Your first & long term *partner*. On quest for superintelligence. Would love to hear from you: szhan@sequoiacap.com X: @stephzhan

Education

Stanford University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

Stephanie Zhan - CEO | Stackforce