Sequoia partner: Cursor, Anthropic wins make VC competition fiercer than ever
shaunmmaguire · x · 2026-09-04
Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire rounds up recent VC winners: a16z/Thrive/Lux with Cursor, OpenRouter and Hugging Face; Benchmark with Cerebras and Cursor; Spark's early Anthropic bet; Khosla's early OpenAI stake; Founders Fund's SpaceX and upcoming Anduril. After 10 years in VC, he says competition has never been fiercer — but the pie has never been bigger.
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