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BlackRock
Investment firm · Founded 1988 · Active in 2026
BlackRock is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1988. The page below shows 183 Power Law outcomes from BlackRock's portfolio — 123 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 6 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · India. BlackRock ranks #83 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
BlackRock’s biggest exits.
BlackRock 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.
BlackRock’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of BlackRock’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 30 companies where BlackRock is a named shareholder, worth about $6.4B in estimated equity value.
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1
iCapital
13%
$7.5B
$975M
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2
PsiQuantum
11.5%
$7.0B
$805M
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3
Scalable Capital
25.9%
$1.7B
$443M
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4
SambaNova Systems
8.5%
$5.0B
$425M
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5
ContentSquare
7.5%
$5.6B
$420M
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6
Applied Intuition
2.5%
$15.0B
$375M
- 7 2.5% $13.0B $325M
- 8 11.5% $2.8B $322M
- 9 7% $4.5B $318M
- 10 10.5% $2.4B $252M
- 11 18% $1.1B $198M
- 12 4% $4.0B $160M
Showing the 12 largest of 30 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = BlackRock’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. BlackRock also appears inside investor groups in Byju's, Carbon Health, Cart.com, Epic Games, Flix, Genesys Telecommunication Labs, Group14 Technologies, ICEYE and 11 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+59 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 183 BlackRock 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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USA118
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UK16
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India8
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Germany6
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France5
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Singapore3
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China3
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Finland3
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UAE2
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Sweden2
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Switzerland2
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Israel2
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Fintech36
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eCommerce & Marketplaces20
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Transportation20
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Other B2B Software16
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Biotech & Life Sciences16
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Cybersecurity13
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Marketing13
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Other13
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AI11
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Space9
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Health Tech & Medtech5
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Energy5
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Series B+125
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Series A1
BlackRock's 183 Power Law outcomes.
How does BlackRock stack up?
BlackRock 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 BlackRock's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
390 founders across the 183 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 BlackRock.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about BlackRock
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about BlackRock 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 BlackRock
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