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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 108 Power Law outcomes from Baillie Gifford's portfolio — 92 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 · UK. Baillie Gifford ranks #126 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

108 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #126 · Global · 108 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 15% 5y
92
Decacorns ↓ 9% 5y
21
Thoroughbreds ↑ 47% 5y
73
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 108 Baillie Gifford Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA68
  2. Germany8
  3. UK7
  4. India6
  5. China6
  6. Singapore2
  7. Sweden1
  8. Portugal1
  9. UAE1
  10. Lithuania1
  11. Colombia1
  12. Italy1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces20
  2. Transportation18
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences13
  4. Fintech10
  5. Other8
  6. Other B2B Software7
  7. Health Tech & Medtech7
  8. AI6
  9. Cybersecurity5
  10. Marketing4
  11. Space3
  12. Edtech3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+93
  2. Series A2
Estimated holdings

Baillie Gifford’s biggest current 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.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 SpaceX | xAISpace · Gigacorn 4.5% $1.2T $56.2B
  2. 2 StripeFintech · Centicorn 3.5% $159B $5.6B
  3. 3 GopuffFood · Decacorn 3.5% $40.0B $1.4B
  4. 4 Bending SpoonsEnterprise Software · Decacorn 7.8% $11.0B $858M
  5. 5 ZiplineRobotics · Unicorn 9% $7.6B $684M
  6. 6 The Brandtech GroupMarketing · Unicorn 14% $4.0B $560M
  7. 7 7% $7.0B $490M
  8. 8 2.5% $13.0B $325M
  9. 9 6.5% $5.0B $325M
  10. 10 10% $3.2B $320M
  11. 11 4.5% $7.0B $315M
  12. 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 →

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.

$29.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $97.3B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $69.1B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $49.6B
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
$23.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.4B
$27.1B IPO · 2026
Now $27.1B
$24.3B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $4.8B
$24.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $6.0B
$15.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $10.0B
$6.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $12.9B
$12.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.9B
$11.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $12.7B
$5.3B IPO · 2021
Now $10.9B
$6.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $9.0B
$5.6B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $9.0B
$8.7B IPO · 2021
Now $301M
$4.5B IPO · 2024
Now $7.2B
$6.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$5.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $587M
$5.5B IPO · 2022
Entered Series B+Now $4.3B
$5.2B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
$4.9B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2016
Now $4.7B
$4.2B buyout · 2025
Entered Series B+

+18 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Baillie Gifford's 108 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
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05 · Power Law comparison

How does Baillie Gifford stack up?

Baillie Gifford 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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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.

261 founders across the 108 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.

LocationCount
United States121
China27
Germany15
Colombia11
New Zealand10
United Kingdom9
India8
Canada7
Iran5
Estonia4
+12 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Berkeley8
Tsinghua University7
Carnegie Mellon University7
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania6
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management5
University of Cambridge5
Brown University5
Cornell University5
+96 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google19
Microsoft10
OpenAI6
Dianping3
Baidu3
Meta3
Apple3
Rent the Runway3
Tesla2
Yahoo!2
+49 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Baillie Gifford

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Baillie Gifford 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.

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Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour

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