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Contour Venture Partners
Venture capital firm · Founded 2005 · Active in 2026
Contour Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2005. The page below shows 9 Power Law outcomes from Contour Venture Partners's portfolio — 8 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Marketing · Fintech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA. Contour Venture ranks #290 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
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.
The 9 Contour Venture 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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USA9
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Marketing3
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Fintech3
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Other B2B Software2
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Edtech1
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Series B+2
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Series A3
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Seed4
Contour Venture’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Contour Venture’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Contour Venture is a named shareholder, worth about $98M in estimated equity value.
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1
Octane
7.5%
$1.3B
$98M
Estimated value = Contour Venture’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Contour Venture also appears inside investor groups in Degreed, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Contour Venture’s biggest exits.
Contour Venture 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.
Contour Venture's 9 Power Law outcomes.
How does Contour Venture stack up?
Contour Venture 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.
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 selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond 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.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
17 founders across the 9 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Carnegie Mellon University and Enervee are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Contour Venture.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Contour Venture Partners
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Contour Venture 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 Contour Venture Partners
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