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Altimeter Capital
Venture capital firm · Founded 2008 · Active in 2026
Altimeter Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2008. The page below shows 62 Power Law outcomes from Altimeter Capital's portfolio — 57 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Other B2B Software · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Germany. Altimeter ranks #222 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Altimeter’s biggest exits.
Altimeter 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.
Altimeter’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Altimeter’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 13 companies where Altimeter is a named shareholder, worth about $3.2B in estimated equity value.
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1
Cockroach Labs
10.5%
$5.0B
$525M
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2
ClickHouse
3.5%
$15.0B
$525M
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3
DataRobot
5.5%
$6.3B
$346M
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4
Parloa
11.5%
$3.0B
$345M
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5
Modern Treasury
14%
$2.0B
$280M
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6
Benchling
4%
$6.1B
$244M
- 7 4.2% $5.7B $239M
- 8 2.8% $7.2B $202M
- 9 2% $8.0B $160M
- 10 16% $1.0B $160M
- 11 2.5% $4.8B $120M
- 12 1.4% $3.4B $47M
Showing the 12 largest of 13 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Altimeter’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Altimeter also appears inside investor groups in Checkout.com, Deel, Loft, Personio, Ro Health, StockX, Udaan, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 62 Altimeter Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA51
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UK3
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Germany2
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India2
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Decentralised1
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Brazil1
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China1
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Singapore1
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AI15
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Other B2B Software12
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Fintech11
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Cybersecurity6
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eCommerce & Marketplaces5
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Marketing4
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Transportation2
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Energy2
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Space1
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Other1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Series B+53
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Series A3
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Seed1
Altimeter's 62 Power Law outcomes.
How does Altimeter stack up?
Altimeter in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Altimeter's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
224 founders across the 62 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.
Key people at Altimeter.
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Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Altimeter Capital
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Altimeter 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 Altimeter Capital
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