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Dave McClure

Angel · San Francisco, United States

#471 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 3% of investors worldwide
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75 Portfolio companies+14% in 5 years
6 Unicorns
2 Decacorns
87 Investments
Jun 2020 Last investment
01 · Exits

Dave McClure’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 Dave McClure’s transaction record.

Twilio
$2.0B IPO · 2016
Entered SeedNow $35BMarketing
Lyft
$24B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $6.1BTransportation
Credit Karma
$7.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series AFintech
Flywire
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $1.9BFintech
SendGrid
$652M IPO · 2017
Now $3.0BMarketing
02 · Portfolio analysis

Where Dave McClure’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 75 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA82
  2. Canada3
  3. UK3
  4. Japan2
  5. China1
  6. Greece1
  7. India1
  8. Malaysia1
  9. Spain1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software25
  2. Fintech17
  3. Marketing15
  4. Media8
  5. Fashion5
  6. Event Tech4
  7. Food4
  8. Real Estate4
  9. Telecom4
  10. Education3
  11. Jobs Recruitment3
  12. Travel3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed68
  2. Series A5
  3. Series B+2
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth65
  2. Breakout Stage23
  3. Late Growth7
03 · Portfolio market map

Inside Dave McClure’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 75 tracked.

Stripe
Fintech · Centicorn
$159B
Lyft
Transportation · Unicorn
$6.1B
Credit Karma
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.0B
Flywire
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.9B
SendGrid
Marketing · Unicorn
$3.0B
Twilio
Marketing · Decacorn
$35B
Goldbelly
Food
$400M
WePay
Fintech
$350M
HappyCo
Real Estate
$187M
Ezra
Health
$84M
Recurly
Fintech
$78M
TaskRabbit
Telecom
$52M
Mashery
Enterprise Software
$40M
SimplyHired
Jobs Recruitment
$48M
Mint
Fintech
$360M
Price.com
Fashion
$48M
ViralGains
Marketing
$54M
Riskpulse
Transportation
$91M
Gengo
Education
$27M
MoBagel
Enterprise Software
$16M
Virool
Media
$48M
Social Tables
Travel
$52M
42Floors
Real Estate
$48M
Mattermark
Enterprise Software
$1.0M
Wildfire Interactive
Marketing
$40M
Vulcun
Media
$48M
DailyWorth
Fintech
$4.0M
CareGuide
Kids
$8.0M
Linkdex
Marketing
$13M
ecomom
Energy
$19M
InternMatch
Jobs Recruitment
$16M
CapLinked
Fintech
$4.2M
Tuckernuck
Fashion
$12M
Nuzzel
Media
$6.8M
Mocavo
USA
$16M
RolePoint
Jobs Recruitment
$20M
Farmeron
Food
$11M
AstroPrint
Enterprise Software
$7.0M
Erply
Fintech
$8.6M
Pogoseat
Media
$9.2M
ALLDAY
Marketing
$9.2M
TeachStreet
Education
$4.8M
Floqq
Education
$4.8M
Stormpulse
Enterprise Software
$8.4M
CoContest
Real Estate
$7.6M
Aingel Corp.
Fintech
$4.0M
Moonfruit
Marketing
$29M
Geekatoo
Telecom
$6.8M
Loku
USA
$8.4M
Partender
Food
$8.0M
Binpress
Enterprise Software
$4.0M
Pick1
Telecom
$4.0M
Mihaibao
Fashion
$6.4M
Chirply
Home Living
$4.4M
Mill River Labs
Fintech
$3.6M
Worldly Developments
Enterprise Software
$3.2M
AwayFind
Travel
$3.2M
Wildfire
Marketing
$3.1M
Rewardli
Fintech
$2.1M
CultureMap
Marketing
$3.0M
04 · Portfolio founders

Where Dave McClure’s portfolio founders come from.

99 founders across the 96 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.

LocationCount
  1. United States72
  2. Japan4
  3. Argentina3
  4. Canada2
  5. Malaysia2
  6. United Kingdom2
  7. Germany1
  8. Italy1
  9. Netherlands1
  10. Slovenia1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University7
  2. Harvard Business School5
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
  4. University of California, Berkeley4
  5. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign3
  6. University of Michigan3
  7. Cornell University2
  8. Harvard University2
  9. Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern2
  10. London School of Economics and Political Science2
Previous companyCount
  1. 500 Global3
  2. Foundation Capital2
  3. Hewlett Packard Pathfinder2
  4. HP Enterprise2
  5. Icaro Artificial Intelligence2
  6. McMaster-Carr2
  7. PayPal2
  8. Zynga2
  9. Aboutthedata.com1
  10. Acclarent1
05 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#431 rank 2,321 companies $284B portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#109 rank 986 companies $3.7T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,921 companies $23T portfolio
Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $2.9T portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,188 companies $4.4T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#62 rank 7,127 companies $1.9T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#56 rank 849 companies $1.9T portfolio
Khosla Ventures
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#53 rank 856 companies $1.9T portfolio