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BDC Capital

Corporate venture · Founded 1944 · Active in 2026

BDC Capital is a corporate venture based in Canada, founded in 1944. The page below shows 19 Power Law outcomes from BDC Capital's portfolio — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences · AI; top portfolio geographies are Canada · Australia · Indonesia. BDC ranks #327 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

19 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #327 · Global · 19 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 100% 5y
16
Decacorns → 5y
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 133% 5y
9
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 19 BDC Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. Canada16
  2. Australia1
  3. Indonesia1
  4. USA1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech5
  2. Biotech & Life Sciences3
  3. AI2
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  5. Other B2B Software2
  6. Health Tech & Medtech1
  7. Transportation1
  8. Energy1
  9. Other1
  10. Edtech1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+10
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed3
Estimated holdings

BDC’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of BDC’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where BDC is a named shareholder, worth about $96M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 ApplyBoardEducation · Unicorn 3% $3.2B $96M

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

BDC’s biggest exits.

BDC 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.

$1.2B IPO · 2022
Entered Series B+Now $10.3B
$3.6B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $3.6B
$2.8B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$324M IPO · 2017
Entered Series ANow $1.5B
$60M IPO · 2017
Entered Series ANow $1.3B
$1.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $230M
$1.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $692M
04 · Portfolio market map

BDC's 19 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
19 of 19 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does BDC stack up?

BDC 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.

8 founders across the 19 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. ETS University and D-Wave Quantum are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
Netherlands4
Canada2
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UniversityCount
ETS University2
University of Amsterdam2
McGill University1
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Origin companyCount
D-Wave Quantum2
Flipkart2
WorkOS2
Salesforce1
Abrigo1
MakeMyTrip1
Microsoft1
Trigo1
ScyllaDB1
Twitch1
+4 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 BDC Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BDC 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 BDC Capital

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

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