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Cota Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2015 · Active in 2026

Cota Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2015. The page below shows 18 Power Law outcomes from Cota Capital's portfolio — 17 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · AI · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA. Cota ranks #431 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

18 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #431 · Global · 18 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 31% 5y
17
Decacorns → 0% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 33% 5y
14
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 18 Cota Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA18
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech10
  2. AI3
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  4. Marketing1
  5. Health Tech & Medtech1
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+11
  2. Series A4
  3. Seed2
04 · Portfolio market map

Cota's 18 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
18 of 18 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Cota stack up?

Cota 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.

27 founders across the 18 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and X. are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States15
Mexico1
Canada1
Iran1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University4
UCLA2
Carnegie Mellon University2
Technological Institute of Monterrey1
Sapienza University of Rome1
Bocconi University1
London School of Economics and Political Science1
Washington & Jefferson College1
University of California, Santa Barbara1
Washington University in St. Louis1
+3 more →
Origin companyCount
X.1
Akamai1
Invoca1
Illumina1
Yahoo!1
Saba1
Palantir1
CAIS1
Microsoft1
Apple1
+1 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 Cota Capital

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

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

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