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CRV

Venture capital firm · Founded 1970 · Active in 2026

CRV is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 1970. The page below shows 53 Power Law outcomes from CRV's portfolio — 45 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Spain · Canada. CRV ranks #49 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

53 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #49 · Global · 53 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 32% 5y
45
Decacorns → 0% 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 63% 5y
37
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 53 CRV Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA49
  2. Spain1
  3. Canada1
  4. Finland1
  5. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software10
  2. Fintech7
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences5
  4. Marketing5
  5. AI4
  6. Transportation4
  7. Other4
  8. Cybersecurity4
  9. eCommerce & Marketplaces4
  10. Health Tech & Medtech2
  11. Energy1
  12. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+18
  2. Series A23
  3. Seed10
Estimated holdings

CRV’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of CRV’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 16 companies where CRV is a named shareholder, worth about $6.5B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 AirtableEnterprise Software · Decacorn 8.5% $11.0B $935M
  2. 2 VercelEnterprise Software · Unicorn 9.5% $9.3B $884M
  3. 3 Reflection AIEnterprise Software · Unicorn 9.5% $8.0B $760M
  4. 4 PostmanEnterprise Software · Unicorn 12% $5.6B $672M
  5. 5 MercuryFintech · Unicorn 11.5% $5.2B $598M
  6. 6 CriblHosting · Unicorn 13.5% $3.5B $472M
  7. 7 11% $4.0B $440M
  8. 8 16.5% $2.2B $363M
  9. 9 16% $2.0B $320M
  10. 10 24% $1.0B $240M
  11. 11 10% $2.1B $210M
  12. 12 9.5% $2.0B $190M

Showing the 12 largest of 16 disclosed direct holdings.

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

CRV’s biggest exits.

CRV 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.

$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $67.6B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $45.0B
$14.1B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $42M
IPO · 2014
Entered Series ANow $10.2B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
$3.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$3.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $1.3B
$643M IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $2.8B
$2.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.0B
$2.3B IPO · 2021
Now $93M
IPO · 2007
Entered Series B+Now $2.0B
IPO · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $1.7B
$1.0B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series A
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series A
$1.0B acquisition · 2018
Entered Seed
$1.0B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series A
04 · Portfolio market map

CRV's 53 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
53 of 53 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does CRV stack up?

CRV 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.

131 founders across the 53 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States77
Israel9
United Kingdom9
India8
South Africa4
Australia3
Denmark3
China3
Canada3
Morocco3
+7 more →
UniversityCount
Massachusetts Institute of Technology9
Stanford University7
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani3
Tel Aviv University3
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem3
Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
Berkeley3
University of California, San Diego3
Carnegie Mellon University3
New York University3
+46 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google19
Meta7
Yahoo!6
Microsoft6
Shopify4
Mollie3
Etsy3
Splunk3
SimilarWeb3
AppNexus2
+78 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 CRV

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about CRV 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 CRV

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