Sequoia Capital marks its FTX funding all the way down to zero {dollars} • TechCrunch

Sequoia Capital simply marked all the way down to zero the worth of its stake within the cryptocurrency change FTX — a stake that, as of final week, seemingly represented among the many most sizable unrealized good points within the enterprise agency’s 50-year historical past. 

This story is growing: right here is the letter it simply despatched out to its restricted companions.

Expensive Restricted Companion,

We’re reaching out to share an replace on our funding in FTX. In current days, a liquidity crunch has created solvency threat for FTX. The complete nature and extent of this threat will not be identified at the moment. Primarily based on our present understanding, we’re marking our funding all the way down to $0.

Sequoia Capital’s publicity to FTX is proscribed. We personal FTX.com and FTX US in a single personal fund, International Progress Fund III. FTX will not be a prime ten place within the fund, and our $150 million price foundation accounts for lower than 3% of the dedicated capital of the fund. The $150 million loss is offset by ~$7.5B in realized and unrealized good points in the identical fund, so the fund stays in fine condition.

Individually, SCGE Fund, L.P. invested $63.5M in FTX.com and FTX US, representing lower than 1% of the SCGE Fund’s 9/30/2022 portfolio (at truthful worth).

We’re within the enterprise of taking threat. Some investments will shock to the upside, and a few will shock to the draw back. We don’t take this duty evenly and do intensive analysis and thorough diligence on each funding we make. On the time of our funding in FTX, we ran a rigorous diligence course of. In 2021, the yr of our funding, FTX generated roughly $1B in income and greater than $250M in working revenue, as was made public in August 2022.

The present state of affairs is growing shortly. We are going to talk in a well timed method when extra info is obtainable. You probably have any extra questions, please contact Andrew Reynolds, Marie Klemchuk and Kathleen Forte at: investorrelations@sequoiacap.com. For SCGE questions, please contact Kimberly Summe at summe@sequolacap.com.

Sincerely.

Group Sequoia

Footnotes:

International Progress Fund III (GGFIlI) knowledge is as of September 30, 2022 and is predicated on U.S. GAAP. The $7.5B consists of $5.8B of unrealized achieve and $1.7B of realized achieve. which incorporates the Basic Companion distribution on Could 27, 2021 pursuant to the 2021 Modification. Previous efficiency will not be indicative of future outcomes

International Progress Fund III (GGFIII) refers to Sequoia Capital International Progress Fund III – Endurance Companions, L.P. and doesn’t embrace Sequoia Capital International Progress Fund III – U.S./India Annex Fund, L.P., Sequoia Capital International

Progress Fund III – China Annex Fund, L.P., and their parallel funds

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