Shaun Maguire

Shaun focuses on enterprise, fintech and frontier technology. He led Sequoia’s investments in AMP Robotics, DeSo, Gather, Knowde, Monad, Physna, SpaceX, and Vise. Prior to joining Sequoia in 2019, Shaun was a Partner at GV where he led their investments in Stripe, Opendoor, IonQ, Spinlaunch, Lambda School, and Dandelion Energy, among others. Previously, Shaun co-founded Expanse, a cybersecurity company that was acquired by Palo Alto Networks for over $800M, and Escape Dynamics, an alternative launch company. He also spent two years working at DARPA, through which he deployed to Afghanistan. Shaun earned a BS in Mathematics from the University of Southern California, an MS in Statistics from Stanford University, an MS in Control and Dynamical Systems from Caltech and a PhD in Physics from Caltech.