A side-by-side comparison of two AI investors: Ribbit Capital (Power Score 80/100) and Sequoia Capital (Power Score 82/100), both ranked among the most active firms tracked in this category.
| Ribbit Capital | Sequoia Capital | |
|---|---|---|
| Power Score™ | 80/100 | 82/100 |
| Assets Managed | $20.78B (RAUM, Form ADV 2026) | $56B+ |
| Founded | 2012 | 1972 |
| Headquarters | Palo Alto, CA | Menlo Park, CA |
| Sectors | Fintech, Crypto, Consumer Internet, AI, Deep Tech, Defense Tech, Enterprise Software | Enterprise Software, Consumer, AI, Semiconductors |
Micky Malka founded Ribbit Capital in 2012 after a career spent building brokerages and banks rather than software companies - he helped build Patagon.com, which Santander acquired in 2000, then co-founded Banco Lemon, later acquired by Banco do Brasil. That regulated-finance operating background, rather than a conventional Silicon Valley career arc, is what made Ribbit the premier financial-services specialist in venture capital, backing category leaders globally from a first $100 million fund in 2013. The firm's public messaging has since broadened well past 'fintech' into global commerce, money movement, identity, data, energy, AI, and wealth management, but the through-line is unchanged: Coinbase, Nubank, and Robinhood are all Ribbit bets, and its March 2026 Form ADV reports approximately $20.78 billion in regulatory assets under management.
View full Ribbit Capital profile →Founded in 1972 by Don Valentine, a former Fairchild Semiconductor sales executive often called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital," Sequoia was there for the first wave of the personal computer era, providing early funding to Apple and Atari. Over five decades it has repeated that pattern again and again - Google, PayPal, and Nvidia among them - building a reputation as the industry's steadiest and most consistent winner across multiple technology cycles.
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