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Allen & Company

Corporate venture · Founded 1932 · Active in 2026

Allen & Company is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 1932. The page below shows 28 Power Law outcomes from Allen & Company's portfolio — 23 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA. Allen & ranks #292 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

28 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #292 · Global · 28 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 21% 5y
23
Decacorns ↑ 50% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 40% 5y
25
Featured in #292Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 2%
01 · Exits

Allen &’s biggest exits.

Allen & 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.

Pandora
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $27.6B
Joby Aviation
$6.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $9.0B
Chewy
$3.4B acquisition · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $8.1B
Ginkgo Bioworks
$5.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $587M
New Relic
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $5.1B
Nextdoor
$4.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $543M
Vroom
$2.5B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $822M
Flatiron Health
$1.9B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
Turo
$1.0B IPO · 2022
Entered Series B+Now $1.0B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 28 Allen & Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA28
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces6
  2. Fintech5
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences4
  4. Transportation4
  5. Health Tech & Medtech2
  6. Other B2B Software2
  7. Other2
  8. AI1
  9. Edtech1
  10. Marketing1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+19
  2. Series A7
  3. Seed1
04 · Portfolio market map

Allen &'s 28 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
28 of 28 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Allen & stack up?

Allen & 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.

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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 Allen &'s portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

43 founders across the 28 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States20
Finland2
India2
Israel2
United Kingdom1
South Africa1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University5
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
Duke University School of Law4
Harvard University3
Berkeley3
MIT Sloan School of Management2
Macalester College2
Columbia Business School2
University College Dublin1
University College London1
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Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google8
Microsoft4
Amazon3
SimilarWeb3
Shopping.com2
Apple2
992
Incognia2
NJOY1
Hubspot1
+15 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 Allen &.

Herbert A. Allen III
Herbert A. Allen III
President & Chief Executive Officer
 Nancy Peretsman
Nancy Peretsman
Managing Director
 Paul A. Gould
Paul A. Gould
Managing Director & Executive Vice President
 Ian Smith
Ian Smith
Managing Director
 Michael Melnitzky
Michael Melnitzky
Managing Director
Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Allen & Company

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Allen & 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

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Latest news about Allen & Company

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