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Investor profile

Baillie Gifford

Investor · Founded 1908 · Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗X / Twitter ↗Crunchbase ↗Dealroom ↗

One of the UK's leading investment firms

118 portfolio companies Investor · $146B invested · 195 investments · Investor rank #22 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 31% 5y
118
Decacorns ↑ 31% 5y
21
Thoroughbreds ↑ 18% 5y
75
Exits

Baillie Gifford’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Baillie Gifford’s transaction record.

SpaceX | xAI
$1.3T acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.6TSpace
Spotify
$30B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $88BMusic
Airbnb
$47B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $77BTravel
Meituan
acquisition · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $53BTelecom
Affirm
$15B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $32BFintech
Zomato
$12B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $30BFood
Lyft
$24B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $5.4BTransportation
Full Truck Alliance
$24B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $6.8BTransportation
Bending Spoons
$18B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $18BEnterprise Software
AUTO1 Group
$13B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $7.8BFintech
NIO
$6.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $11BEnergy
Wise
$11B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $9.8BFintech
Portfolio analysis

Where Baillie Gifford's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 118 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA76
  2. Germany8
  3. UK7
  4. China5
  5. India5
  6. Japan4
  7. Singapore2
  8. Sweden2
  9. Australia1
  10. Brazil1
  11. Colombia1
  12. France1
By sectorCount
  1. Health25
  2. Transportation23
  3. Fintech14
  4. Enterprise Software12
  5. Energy9
  6. Food9
  7. Home Living7
  8. Robotics6
  9. Security6
  10. Fashion5
  11. Marketing5
  12. Media5
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+113
  2. Series A2
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth114
  2. Breakout Stage3
  3. Mature1
Portfolio market map

Inside Baillie Gifford's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 118 tracked.

Anthropic
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$965B
Databricks
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$188B
Anduril
Security · Decacorn
$61B
Flipkart
Home Living · Decacorn
$36B
SpaceX | xAI
Space · Gigacorn
$1.6T
Stripe
Fintech · Centicorn
$159B
Epic Games
Gaming · Decacorn
$18B
Meituan
Telecom · Decacorn
$53B
Northvolt
Energy
Gopuff
Food · Unicorn
$8.5B
Lyft
Transportation · Unicorn
$5.4B
Ola
Transportation · Unicorn
$7.3B
Full Truck Alliance
Transportation · Unicorn
$6.8B
Airbnb
Travel · Decacorn
$77B
Horizon Robotics
Transportation
$653M
NIO
Energy · Decacorn
$11B
Aurora
Robotics · Decacorn
$11B
PsiQuantum
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$7.0B
Wayve
Robotics · Unicorn
$8.6B
Zomato
Food · Decacorn
$30B
Nuro
Robotics · Unicorn
$6.0B
Redwood Materials
Energy · Unicorn
$6.0B
Relativity
Space · Unicorn
$4.2B
Zipline
Robotics · Unicorn
$7.6B
Rappi
Food · Unicorn
$5.2B
Spotify
Music · Decacorn
$88B
Delhivery
Transportation · Unicorn
$4.8B
Airwallex
Fintech · Decacorn
$11B
Joby Aviation
Transportation · Unicorn
$5.4B
Dailyhunt
Media · Unicorn
$5.0B
Snyk
Security · Unicorn
$7.4B
Ginkgo Bioworks
Health
$554M
Faire
Home Living · Decacorn
$13B
Oscar
Health · Unicorn
$4.4B
Intarcia Therapeutics
Health · Unicorn
$3.9B
CureVac
Health
$599M
Indigo
Food · Unicorn
$3.5B
Affirm
Fintech · Decacorn
$32B
Brex
Fintech · Unicorn
$5.2B
AUTO1 Group
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.8B
SHINE Technologies
Health · Unicorn
$1.2B
Scopely
Gaming · Unicorn
$4.9B
HeartFlow
Health · Unicorn
$2.0B
Discord
Gaming · Decacorn
$15B
Quince
Fashion · Decacorn
$10B
Tempus
Health · Decacorn
$10B
Bending Spoons
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$18B
Astranis
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.8B
ChargePoint
Energy
$299M
Loft
Real Estate · Unicorn
$2.9B
Flix
Travel · Unicorn
$3.3B
Zymergen
Health
$226M
Runway
Media · Unicorn
$5.3B
Convoy
Transportation
Warby Parker
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$3.2B
Sana Biotechnology
Health
$851M
Cohesity
Security · Unicorn
$7.0B
Tanium
Security · Unicorn
$9.0B
Insightec
Health · Unicorn
$1.3B
STORD
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.0B
Portfolio founders

Where Baillie Gifford's portfolio founders come from.

189 founders across the 100 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
  1. United States113
  2. India13
  3. China8
  4. United Kingdom7
  5. Brazil6
  6. Germany6
  7. Italy5
  8. Sweden5
  9. Argentina4
  10. Australia4
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University14
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology11
  3. Harvard University10
  4. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania9
  5. University of California, Berkeley7
  6. Cornell University5
  7. Brown University4
  8. Carnegie Mellon University4
  9. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi4
  10. Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google10
  2. Bain & Company7
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology7
  4. Microsoft6
  5. MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab6
  6. McKinsey & Company4
  7. University of California, Berkeley4
  8. University of Cambridge4
  9. Goldman Sachs3
  10. IBM3
How Baillie Gifford stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

Fidelity Investments
Venture Capital · Boston
#7 rank 361 companies $6.2T portfolio
Founders Fund
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#49 rank 611 companies $7.3T portfolio
Temasek
Sovereign Wealth Fund · Singapore
#13 rank 376 companies $2.8T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,063 companies $1.9T portfolio
Tiger Global
Venture Capital · New York City
#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
Kleiner Perkins
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#51 rank 775 companies $8.4T portfolio
Plug and Play
Venture Capital · Sunnyvale
#435 rank 1,539 companies $283B portfolio
Key people

Key people at Baillie Gifford.

Richard McGrail
Richard McGrail
Partner
 Nick Thomas
Nick Thomas
Investment Manager
 Tom S.
Tom S.
Investment Manager
 Amy Atack (nee Dymock)
Amy Atack (nee Dymock)
Director
 Andrew Keiller, CFA
Andrew Keiller, CFA
Director
 Jenny Davis
Jenny Davis
Investment Manager
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
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.