James Flynn

Partner @Sequoia | racket sport enthusiast | 🇨🇦

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

Sequoia too will happily invest in Canadian corporations 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

After hearing feedback from Canadian founders in our network, we’ve decided to add Canada back to our list of accepted countries of incorporation.

Going forward, YC will once again invest in US, Canada, Cayman, and Singapore corporations.

https://t.co/2gQA55u4fL

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@_ghazwa_ finally the wait is over!

[Ricursive Intelligence @RicursiveAI]

Today we release Ripple-65B Preview, our 65B dense LLM we pretrained from scratch.

Ripple sets a new state-of-the-art for U.S. open-weight models in agentic coding tasks, surpassing significantly larger models including Muse Spark Open-816B, Beam-501B, Inkling-975B, and Nemotron 3 Ultra-550B.

Learn more: https://t.co/Pe04ZKhkE9

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

💚💚💚

[Sequoia Capital @sequoia]

https://t.co/ZuGVVQLF5E

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@joshavata the best guy to be

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

🚨🇨🇦🇨🇦🚨: Students & new grads in Canada are now eligible for No Limit (our pokerbot tournament)

$100K grand prize!!

[Sequoia Capital @sequoia]

UPDATE: We are able to expand eligibility for No Limit to university students in the U.S. and Canada.

(Plus recent grads from ’25 or ’26.)

Apply to the closest regional event. Registration now open.

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

HUGE quarter for @SierraPlatform

I like to think the candian tuxedo tradition is all a big ploy to land the big 🇨🇦 banks as customers and @UWaterloo grads as FDEs

[Bret Taylor @btaylor]

Every quarter at Sierra, we celebrate the end of the quarter with Double Denim Day (or, as some like to call it, Canadian Tuxedo Day) 👖. This Q3, we needed a lot of denim to celebrate the most remarkable quarter in Sierra's 2.5 year history.

We added over $150M ARR this quarter, bringing our total ARR beyond $400M. Remarkably, we added more ARR in one quarter than we had all of last year.

The most exciting thing to me is that our pace is accelerating. It took us six months to double from $100M to $200M ARR, and only five months to double from $200M to $400M ARR.

@claybavor and I are grateful to our customers and proud of the entire Sierra team.

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

sorry man we’re actually looking to fill out the round with non-strategic angels. your experience is a bit too relevant

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@bram lfggg

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@ChristneKim @getserval @sequoia likewise!!

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

we are happy @getserval customers & investors here @sequoia!! the company is absolutely crushing it

they prob have the highest ARR / follower ratio of any AI company so go toss them a follow!

[Jake Stauch @jakeserval]

We raised a $150M Series C at a $3B valuation, led by @sequoia. Our third round in 12 months, bringing our total funding to $277M.

Our team has grown 10x in the last 12 months. We now serve Fox Corporation, WPP, Live Nation, Lucid Motors, and Ramp, and many of them are fully replacing legacy platforms with @getserval.

AI coding tools have transformed how engineers work. Serval brings that same power to every team, so anyone can build governed automations across the systems they already use.

We’re hiring 500+ people over the next year and expanding in San Francisco, NYC, London, Austin, and beyond.

If you’re down to take on legacy enterprise systems and transform how teams work, my cofounder @AlexAtServal and I would love to meet you.

It’s Serval now.

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@getserval @sequoia i believe!

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.”

- Psalm 118:23

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

very cool concept from @formationbio!

exciting for us as shareholders and more importantly those who will benefit from drugs getting to market faster (i.e. all of us!)

[Ben Liu @BenjamineYLiu]

https://t.co/DQOda0GPKF

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@joshavata @MeckaAI @jasontheutopian epiccc

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

launch video is 🔥🔥🔥

call to all college students - No Limit (@sequoia poker bot tournament) signups are live!

epic chance to win a legit cash prize and meet some absolute legends at the finals 👑

details below!

[Sequoia Capital @sequoia]

Announcing No Limit: a bot building tournament hosted by @Sequoia, @citsecurities and @OpenAI.

Teams of 1 or 2 get 60 minutes to build a pokerbot from scratch.

Agents play thousands of games across six scored rounds.

Open to university students and recent grads (‘25 or ‘26).

Regionals in Boston, Pittsburgh and the Bay Area in early November. Top five teams from each fly to the Finals. $100K grand prize.

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@stephzhan thanks stephanie! it's been a blast 💚

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

be like Isaiah (@ilboone)
> lead investment in one of fastest growing AI infra companies
> come out of twitter stealth with second ever post

[Isaiah @ilboone]

@useblacksmith is a breakout company. thrilled to lead their series C

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

@czoob3 @sequoia @cultured @whop @dougleone fired up!

[James Flynn @jamesfly]

LFG!! We @sequoia are so pumped to be partnering with Steven (@cultured) and @whop by leading this round with 🐐 @dougleone joining the board.

Whop is the best place for the exploding community of internet entrepreneurs to build their businesses. Every day they work towards their mission of delivering everyone a sustainable income.

It is a truly unique company in their pace of execution, breadth of platform and diversity of customers. We are SO bullish 🚀🚀🚀

[Steven Schwartz 🦅 @cultured]

Whop has raised $200M in Series D funding at a $5.1B valuation, backed by @sequoia and @shopify.

It really feels like we are barely touching the tip of the iceberg in a market larger than anyone can imagine.

We first launched Whop as a better way for us to sell sneaker bots, one of the most niche types of desktop software out there.

Total TAM? Probably $20,000 per day.

Who cares, tiny market.

But, what people discounted is the idea that there were actually 70,000 other markets exactly like that one.

Beyond the investment itself, I am especially excited to welcome legendary silicon valley investor @dougleone to our board of directors. Doug and the sequoia team are nothing but a brilliant, resourceful, and principled group of people.

My co-founder Cameron and I started building on Shopify when we were 13 years old. Shopify is one of the most impactful all-in-one cloud ecosystems ever created; @tobi has pioneered modern entrepreneurship the way we know it and we are thrilled to have him in our corner.

We have a tenet at Whop to be the dumbest in the room and I am very grateful that this has recently become a lot easier.

We are focused on markets, scale economies, and progressive media. If that is up your alley, please message me directly.

The $200M raised will support our expansion as we build economic infrastructure for the next century, continuing on our mission of delivering everyone an income.