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8VC

Venture capital firm · Founded 2015 · Active in 2026

8VC is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2015. The page below shows 65 Power Law outcomes from 8VC's portfolio — 61 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Cybersecurity · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada · Israel. 8VC ranks #48 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

65 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #48 · Global · 65 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 49% 5y
61
Decacorns ↑ 200% 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 100% 5y
40
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

IPO · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 65 8VC Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.

By countryCount
  1. USA59
  2. Canada2
  3. Israel1
  4. Germany1
  5. Colombia1
  6. UAE1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences10
  2. Cybersecurity10
  3. Health Tech & Medtech9
  4. Fintech9
  5. Transportation8
  6. AI6
  7. Other B2B Software4
  8. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  9. Robotics3
  10. Other2
  11. Space1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+35
  2. Series A17
  3. Seed10
Estimated holdings

8VC’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of 8VC’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 12 companies where 8VC is a named shareholder, worth about $6.2B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 AndurilSecurity · Decacorn 4% $61.0B $2.4B
  2. 2 Saronic TechnologiesRobotics · Unicorn 10% $9.2B $925M
  3. 3 AddeparFintech · Unicorn 17.5% $3.3B $569M
  4. 4 Chaos IndustriesRobotics · Unicorn 10% $4.5B $450M
  5. 5 Qualia LabsFintech · Unicorn 17.5% $2.5B $436M
  6. 6 EpirusEnergy · Unicorn 24% $1.4B $324M
  7. 7 22% $1.3B $282M
  8. 8 2.5% $9.3B $233M
  9. 9 1.9% $10.2B $194M
  10. 10 2.5% $7.0B $175M
  11. 11 4% $2.8B $112M
  12. 12 3.5% $1.0B $35M

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = 8VC’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. 8VC also appears inside investor groups in AI21 Labs, BlueVoyant, Cityblock Health, Clearco, ICON Technology, Mammoth Biosciences, Maven Clinic, Side, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

8VC’s biggest exits.

8VC portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.

$1.6B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $16.4B
$14.1B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $42M
$6.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $9.0B
$1.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.9B
$4.4B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
$4.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $298M
$1.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $2.5B
$2.2B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
$2.1B acquisition · 2022
Entered Series A
$1.9B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$1.8B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

8VC's 65 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
65 of 65 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does 8VC stack up?

8VC in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset. Investors shown are the 2026 Power Law top 35 by combined entry-to-outcome score, drawn from the overview and locations_data sheets. Funnel-matrix axes rescale per-axis using the maximum among the currently selected investors, so the polygons always fill the chart for shape comparison.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

231 founders across the 65 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Palantir are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States131
Israel13
India13
Taiwan6
Russia6
Germany6
Canada5
Iran5
Serbia4
Morocco3
+10 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University29
Massachusetts Institute of Technology12
Harvard University11
MIT Sloan School of Management8
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania7
Georgia Institute of Technology6
Harvard Business School5
Berkeley5
Yale University5
Carnegie Mellon University4
+73 more →
Origin companyCount
Palantir18
Alphabet | Google17
Microsoft9
Meta8
Groupon3
PayPal3
Shopify3
Tesla3
Apple3
Dropbox3
+98 more →
Origin = country a founder is born in or grew up in (founders may have multiple origins; counts include all entries). University = highest-listed degree. Origin company = a previous employer where the founder was tagged before starting their current company.
07 · Key people

Key people at 8VC.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about 8VC

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about 8VC on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.

Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…

Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

In the news

Latest news about 8VC

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning 8VC — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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