Roelof Botha

Roelof Frederik Botha (born 19 September 1973)[1] is a South African-American actuary, venture capitalist and company director.

Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital and as of 2022 sits on the boards of MongoDB,[2] Evernote,[3] Bird,[4] Natera,[5] Square, Unity,[6] and Xoom.

Botha earned a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics from the University of Cape Town, graduating in 1996.

Meg Whitman offered Botha the opportunity to stay on as CFO post-acquisition, but he left to join Sequoia Capital in January 2003.

As of 2022, his active investments include Ethos, Evernote, GenEdit, Landis, mmhmm, Pendulum, Skiff, Temporal Technologies, and The Org.