Facebook buys WhatsApp, behind the biggest winners sequoia in the end

After the explosive news this morning, Facebook threw a 19 billion-dollar takeover WhatsApp, everyone was talking about how much money the WHATSAPP's Sequoia Capital had invested in the end and how much the return could be achieved. It has been publicly exposed to the $8 million a-round financing that WhatsApp took from Sequoia in 2011, but Re/code learned from sources that Sequoia had actually invested in WhatsApp's rounds of financing, with a total investment of more than 60 million dollars, One of the biggest investments was the $50 million trillion in WhatsApp's 2013 round of financing.

Another source said that Facebook's 19 billion-dollar takeover could give Sequoia a return of nearly 3 billion dollars. And it's not the first time that Sequoia has benefited from Facebook, when Instagram sold Facebook for 1 billion dollars, Instagram just finished the 50 million-dollar B-round fundraising for Sequoia.