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Baillie Gifford
Investment firm · Founded 1908 · Active in 2026
Baillie Gifford is an investment firm based in UK, founded in 1908. The page below shows 104 Power Law outcomes from Baillie Gifford's portfolio — 93 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Transportation · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Germany · China. Baillie Gifford ranks #126 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Baillie Gifford’s biggest exits.
Baillie Gifford 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.
Baillie Gifford’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Baillie Gifford’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 31 companies where Baillie Gifford is a named shareholder, worth about $69.9B in estimated equity value.
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SpaceX | xAI
4.5%
$1.2T
$56.2B
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2
Stripe
3.5%
$159B
$5.6B
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3
Gopuff
3.5%
$40.0B
$1.4B
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4
Bending Spoons
7.8%
$11.0B
$858M
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5
Zipline
9%
$7.6B
$684M
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6
The Brandtech Group
14%
$4.0B
$560M
- 7 7% $7.0B $490M
- 8 2.5% $13.0B $325M
- 9 6.5% $5.0B $325M
- 10 10% $3.2B $320M
- 11 4.5% $7.0B $315M
- 12 3.5% $9.0B $315M
Showing the 12 largest of 31 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Baillie Gifford’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Baillie Gifford also appears inside investor groups in Altruist, Anduril, Discord, Epic Games, Faire, Flix, Human Interest, Rappi and 5 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+17 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 104 Baillie Gifford 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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USA65
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Germany8
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China6
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UK6
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India6
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Australia1
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Colombia1
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Brazil1
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Sweden1
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Canada1
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Italy1
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Singapore1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces20
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Transportation17
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Biotech & Life Sciences13
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Fintech9
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Other8
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Health Tech & Medtech7
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Other B2B Software6
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Cybersecurity5
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AI4
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Marketing4
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Space3
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Edtech3
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Series B+94
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Series A2
Baillie Gifford's 104 Power Law outcomes.
How does Baillie Gifford stack up?
Baillie Gifford 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 Baillie Gifford's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
267 founders across the 104 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 Baillie Gifford.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Baillie Gifford
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