Investor profile

Anorak Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2016 · San Francisco, United States

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Investing is transformative people & technology

57 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $517M invested · 71 investments · Investor rank #5,079 · Last investment 5/2026

Portfolio companies ↑ 62% 5y

Decacorns

Thoroughbreds

Portfolio analysis

Where Anorak Ventures's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 57 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA48
France2
Australia1
Canada1
Denmark1
Ghana1
Kenya1
South Africa1
Switzerland1

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software15
Gaming7
Energy6
Health6
Media6
Education5
Robotics5
Security5
Transportation3
Real Estate2
Space2
Consumer Electronics1

By stage enteredCount

Seed47
Series A7
Series B+1

By growth stageCount

Early Growth29
Breakout Stage22
Late Growth6

Portfolio market map

Inside Anorak Ventures's portfolio.

The 56 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 57 tracked.

Enterprise Software · Unicorn

Blacktop Hoops by Vinci Games

Impact3D Incorporated

Portfolio founders

Where Anorak Ventures's portfolio founders come from.

86 founders across the 57 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United States65
France5
Australia3
Denmark3
Kenya2
South Africa2
Canada1
Ghana1
Mozambique1
Poland1

UniversityCount

University of California, Berkeley6
Georgia Institute of Technology4
Cornell University3
Stanford University3
Aarhus University2
Aix-Marseille University2
Baruch College2
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani2
Carnegie Mellon University2
Sorbonne University2

Previous companyCount

Alphabet | Google3
Palantir3
Qualcomm3
Stanford University3
Viacom3
Digital Fountain2
Experience2
Grundfos2
Helix Leisure2
McKinsey & Company2

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Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.