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Crosslink Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 1989 · Active in 2026

Crosslink Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1989. The page below shows 18 Power Law outcomes from Crosslink Capital's portfolio — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Other · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK. Crosslink ranks #228 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

18 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #228 · Global · 18 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns → 0% 5y
16
Decacorns ↓ 33% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 42% 5y
17
01 · Exits

Crosslink’s biggest exits.

Crosslink 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 · 2009
Entered Series B+Now $2.0T
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $27.6B
$9.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $5.9B
$1.7B IPO · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $7.5B
IPO · 2000
Entered Series B+Now $3.6B
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Seed
$1.7B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series A
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
$1.4B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $433M
$1.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
02 · Estimated holdings

Crosslink’s selected top holdings.

An estimate of Crosslink’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Crosslink is a named shareholder, worth about $102M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 HomeLightReal Estate · Unicorn 6% $1.7B $102M

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

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 18 Crosslink Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA17
  2. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software4
  2. Other4
  3. Fintech3
  4. Marketing3
  5. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  6. Edtech1
  7. AI1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+11
  2. Series A3
  3. Seed4
04 · Portfolio market map

Crosslink's 18 Power Law outcomes.

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

How does Crosslink stack up?

Crosslink 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
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 Crosslink's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

26 founders across the 18 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Brown University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States12
United Kingdom1
Russia1
India1
Germany1
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UniversityCount
Brown University3
University of Michigan3
Warren Alpert Medical School2
Princeton University2
Stanford University2
HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management1
Texas A&M University1
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University1
Stanford University Graduate School of Business1
University of Texas at Austin1
+2 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google3
Microsoft2
Unit212
Yahoo!2
Informatica2
Klarna1
Jimdo1
Palantir1
Tempus1
Toss1
+20 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 Crosslink Capital

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

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

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