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BlackRock
Private Equity, Venture Capital · Founded 1988 · New York City, United States
The funds BlackRock backs.
BlackRock is a limited partner in 49 funds. 13 of them place in the Power Law Investor Ranking; those lead, best-ranked first.
BlackRock’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies BlackRock still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names BlackRock directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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xAI
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$250B
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2
Databricks
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$188B
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3
Anduril
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$61.0B
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4
Prometheus
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$41.0B
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5
Epic Games
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$18.0B
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Applied Intuition
2.5%
$15.0B
$375M
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Grammarly
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$13.0B
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SambaNova Systems
8.5%
$11.0B
$425M
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9
ICEYE
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$11.0B
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10
Gojek
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$10.5B
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11
Vinted
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$9.4B
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12
Flexport
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$8.0B
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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 4 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
BlackRock’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 BlackRock’s transaction record.
Where BlackRock’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 282 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA251
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India32
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UK32
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Germany15
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South Korea9
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Canada7
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France7
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Spain7
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China6
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Israel6
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Australia5
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Singapore5
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Fintech83
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Health75
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Enterprise Software69
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Energy56
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Transportation48
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Marketing26
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Security22
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Real Estate19
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Semiconductors15
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Telecom15
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Food14
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Media14
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Series B+242
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Series A13
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Seed8
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Late Growth313
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Breakout Stage48
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Mature35
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Early Growth32
Inside BlackRock’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 282 tracked.
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ViWhere BlackRock’s portfolio founders come from.
200 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.
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United States102
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United Kingdom21
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India15
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Germany9
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Finland6
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Netherlands6
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Indonesia5
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Singapore5
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Sweden5
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Canada3
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Stanford University11
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Harvard Business School10
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology9
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Harvard University8
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University of California, Berkeley8
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Cornell University6
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Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta6
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WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management6
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania4
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Aalto University3
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Alphabet | Google11
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Microsoft9
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McKinsey & Company6
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Stanford University6
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Boston Consulting Group5
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University of California, Berkeley5
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Bain & Company4
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IBM4
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
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MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab4
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at BlackRock.
