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Atlas Venture

Venture capital firm · Founded 1980 · Active in 2026

Atlas Venture is a venture capital firm based in Cambridge MA, USA, founded in 1980. The page below shows 43 Power Law outcomes from Atlas Venture's portfolio — 35 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Canada. Atlas Venture ranks #53 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

43 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #53 · Global · 43 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 30% 5y
35
Decacorns ↑ 100% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 44% 5y
27
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 43 Atlas Venture Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA33
  2. UK5
  3. Canada2
  4. Netherlands1
  5. Germany1
  6. Switzerland1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences25
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces6
  3. Fintech3
  4. Other B2B Software2
  5. Other2
  6. Cybersecurity2
  7. Health Tech & Medtech1
  8. Marketing1
  9. AI1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+4
  2. Series A24
  3. Seed11
Estimated holdings

Atlas Venture’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Atlas Venture’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Atlas Venture is a named shareholder, worth about $818M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 WhoopHealth · Decacorn 6% $10.1B $606M
  2. 2 HopperEnterprise Software · Unicorn 4% $5.0B $200M
  3. 3 Secret EscapesTravel · Thoroughbred 2.7% $436M $12M

Estimated value = Atlas Venture’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Atlas Venture also appears inside investor groups in DataRobot, Patreon, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Atlas Venture’s biggest exits.

Atlas Venture 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 · 2004
Entered Series B+Now $38.0B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $30.0B
$6.5B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $13.4B
IPO · 2000
Entered SeedNow $12.0B
$7.1B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $78M
IPO · 2004
Entered Series B+Now $6.5B
$174M IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $5.9B
$350M IPO · 2018
Now $5.0B
$433M IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $3.8B
$582M IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $3.2B
IPO · 2014
Entered SeedNow $2.9B
$2.7B IPO · 2018
Entered SeedNow $2.7B
$2.2B IPO · 2026
Entered Series ANow $2.2B
$690M IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $2.1B
$1.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $1.9B
$142M IPO · 2022
Entered Series ANow $1.9B
$1.8B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series A
$850M buyout · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $1.6B
$772M IPO · 2016
Entered Series ANow $1.5B
$287M IPO · 2017
Entered Series ANow $1.3B
$1.1B acquisition · 2021
Entered Seed
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series A
$1.0B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series A
$1.0B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series A
04 · Portfolio market map

Atlas Venture's 43 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
43 of 43 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Atlas Venture stack up?

Atlas Venture 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.

74 founders across the 43 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Chalmers University of Technology and Gyroscope Therapeutics are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States31
United Kingdom10
Sweden7
France5
Netherlands4
Canada3
Singapore2
India1
Ireland1
Argentina1
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UniversityCount
Chalmers University of Technology5
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania3
ETS University2
University of Amsterdam2
Aston University2
North Carolina State University2
Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
SGH Warsaw School of Economics1
McGill University1
+27 more →
Origin companyCount
Gyroscope Therapeutics2
Translate Bio2
Microsoft2
MakeMyTrip1
ScyllaDB1
Trigo1
Seagen1
EyeBio1
Dascena1
Juno Therapeutics1
+25 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 Atlas Venture.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Atlas Venture

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Atlas Venture 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 Atlas Venture

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

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