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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 39 Power Law outcomes from Atlas Venture's portfolio — 34 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.
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.
Atlas Venture’s selected top 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.
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1
Whoop
6%
$10.1B
$606M
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2
Hopper
4%
$5.0B
$200M
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3
Secret Escapes
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 →
The 39 Atlas Venture 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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USA29
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UK5
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Canada2
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Germany1
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Netherlands1
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Switzerland1
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Biotech & Life Sciences21
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eCommerce & Marketplaces6
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Fintech3
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Other B2B Software2
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Cybersecurity2
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Other2
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AI1
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Marketing1
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Series B+4
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Series A23
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Seed11
Atlas Venture's 39 Power Law outcomes.
How does Atlas Venture stack up?
Atlas Venture 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 Atlas Venture's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
89 founders across the 39 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Chalmers University of Technology and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Atlas Venture.
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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