Of 60 answers

The most named companies in the study, and S&P 500 financials, with how many of their 60 AI answers named them.

SWIFT47/60TRANSUNION46/60EXPERIAN42/60COINSTAR41/60NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION41/60ZELLE41/60BLOOMBERG L.P.38/60TRADINGVIEW38/60BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO37/60PAYPAL37/60VENMO37/60CHEXSYSTEMS33/60EQUIFAX33/60MORNINGSTAR32/60S&P GLOBAL31/60ALPACA MARKETS30/60COINBASE30/60PINWHEEL29/60STRIPE29/60XERO29/60ACORNS28/60AFFIRM28/60PAYFAST (PAYGATE)28/60PAYONEER28/60INTERACTIVE BROKERS26/60CHARLES SCHWAB19/60THE HARTFORD9/60MOODY'S21/60CME GROUP19/60ACCENTURE11/60CHUBB10/60MORGAN STANLEY6/60AMERICAN EXPRESS14/60SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL12/60FACTSET20/60NASDAQ19/60ALLSTATE11/60WELLS FARGO18/60PAYCHEX10/60ARES MANAGEMENT3/60
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AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder

Sequoia Capital

sequoiacap.com

Venture capital and growth investorsInvesting and wealth

Money20/20 attendee

Statement period
October 9 to 14, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
145 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
1st of 59 venture capital firms
Closing balance

Named in

10of 60 answers

by 4 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Sequoia Capital

AI assistants name this venture capital firm in 16.7% of answers, which is much more often than the typical company in its sector at 0.8%. Its overall score is 42 out of 100, ranking 145th of 2,219. The website passes 5 out of 14 technical checks for readiness with AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Sequoia Capital by name. AI assistants named it in 10 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 19th of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% of answers.

Overall score
42Overall score
  • Visibility19
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment93
  • Site quality87
  • AI readiness36
Summary of account
Named by AI in
16.7%
10 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
23.8%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
5/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
11 of 238
by overall score, where the typical investing and wealth company scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Sequoia Capital came up on 4 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01Top US VCs specializing in tech innovation funding4/4
  2. 02Alternatives to raising money from venture capital firms0/4
  3. 03Venture capital vs. private equity for startup growth0/4
  4. 04Differences between seed and Series A funding rounds0/4
  5. 05Non-dilutive funding options for tech startups0/4
  6. 06Ways VCs support founders beyond capital investment0/4
  7. 07Best VCs in the US for deep tech or AI startups1/4
  8. 08Why do some startups struggle to attract VC funding?0/4
  9. 09Best venture capital firms for early-stage startups in the US4/4
  10. 10What percentage of equity do VCs usually take in early-stage deals?0/4
  11. 11How to handle rejection from multiple venture capitalists0/4
  12. 12Is partnering with a venture capital firm worth it for founders?0/4
  13. 13What to expect when working with a top US venture investor1/4
  14. 14Typical management fees and carried interest rates in US venture capital0/4
  15. 15How can a venture capital partner help scale a SaaS company?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 3/15Claude: 2/15Perplexity: 2/15Gemini: 3/15All assistants: 10/60
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. Across the study, on 50% of the questions where a company is named, only one AI assistant names it.

Transaction detailSection 02

What Perplexity actually said

An answer that names the company

Perplexitynamed the company

“Top US VCs specializing in tech innovation funding”

For US tech innovation funding, the strongest shortlist is:

Sequoia Capital — Seed through growth; enterprise software, AI, fintech, healthcare, and consumer technology. It is known for backing category-defining companies.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) — Broad technology focus spanning AI, software, fintech, crypto, gaming, infrastructure, and bio; invests from early stage through growth.

Bessemer Venture Partners — Particularly strong in cloud software, enterprise technology, cybersecurity, fintech, and healthcare; active from seed to growth.

General Cataly …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

PayeesSection 03

Where the mentions went

The companies these answers named, and how the mentions were split between this company and its peers.

Also named

CompanyTimes named
  1. 01
    Lightspeed Venture Partners
    6
  2. 02
    Accel
    5
  3. 03
    Benchmark
    3
  4. 04
    Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
    2

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. Sequoia Capital
    23.8%
  2. Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
    23.8%
  3. Lightspeed Venture Partners
    21.4%
  4. Accel
    19.0%
  5. Benchmark
    9.5%
  6. Greylock Partners
    2.4%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

  1. 01
    waveup.com
    17
  2. 02
    crv.com
    10
  3. 03
    linkedin.com
    9
  4. 04
    angelinvestorsnetwork.com
    6
  5. 05
    entrepreneur.com
    6
  6. 06
    qubit.capital
    5
  7. 07
    startupfundraising.com
    4
  8. 08
    carta.com
    4
  9. 09
    startupsavant.com
    4
  10. 10
    rho.co
    4

Sequoia Capital is in the study as a venture capital firm.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
3/15
OpenAI
3/15
Claude
2/15
Perplexity
2/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Sequoia Capital compares with all 2,219 companies

Every tower is a company in the study, taller for a higher overall score and lit where AI assistants named it. Its own group stays lit. Hover a tower to see it, and click to open it.

What makes up the score

Each part is scored out of 100.

Visibility
19

How often AI assistants name the company, and how that compares with its peers

Citations
0

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
93

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
87

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
36

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Against its sectorSection 07

Compared with investing and wealth companies

238 companies in this sector. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
42
Ranks 11 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
16.7%
Ranks 19 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 15 of 238. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with venture capital firms

59 companies in this category. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
42
Ranks 1 of 59. Typical company: 26
Named in answers
16.7%
Ranks 3 of 59. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 2 of 59. Typical company: 29
AI agentsSection 09

Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and pay through, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals
Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. Sequoia Capital publishes none of the agent payment protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the website like a person.

Agent payment protocols
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • ACPNot present
  • UCPNot present
Interfaces for AI agents
  • MCP Server CardNot present
  • A2A Agent CardNot present
  • Agent SkillsNot present
  • API CatalogNot present
  • llms.txtNot present
  • WebMCPCould not check
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
77 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 87.9%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 1.5%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present

    Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.

    study: 4.3%
Content accessibility
50 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationPassed

    Requests sent with Accept: text/markdown receive a markdown version of the page.

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 31.0%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 92.7%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 2.3%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.3%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 5.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.2%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.8%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.2%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 1.0%
  • WebMCPCould not check

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 0.0%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.2%

Score 36 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 9, 2026 · sequoiacap.com · 2,200 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

AI readinessSection 10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

5 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks

Discoverability

  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.1%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 79.4%
  • PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 28.1%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 97.3%

Bot Access Control

  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 11.5%

API / Auth / MCP

  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 1.1%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 4.6%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.2%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 0.3%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.1%
AI crawlersSection 11

What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 86% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI

  • GPTBotallowed
  • ClaudeBotallowed
  • Anthropic-AIallowed
  • Google-Extendedallowed
  • Applebot-Extendedallowed
  • Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
  • FacebookBotallowed
  • Bytespiderallowed
  • CCBotallowed
  • Diffbotallowed
  • Omgilibotallowed

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotallowed
  • Claude-SearchBotallowed
  • PerplexityBotallowed
  • Applebotallowed
  • Amazonbotallowed
  • YouBotallowed

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userallowed
  • Claude-Userallowed
  • Perplexity-Userallowed
  • DuckAssistBotallowed
  • MistralAI-Userallowed

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

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