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Day One Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2017 · Active in 2026

Day One Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2017. The page below shows 11 Power Law outcomes from Day One Ventures's portfolio — 9 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · AI · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · Netherlands. Day One ranks #360 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

11 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #360 · Global · 11 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 80% 5y
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Decacorns → 5y
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Thoroughbreds ↑ 500% 5y
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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 11 Day One Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA10
  2. Netherlands1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech4
  2. AI2
  3. Marketing2
  4. Space1
  5. Other B2B Software1
  6. Energy1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+5
  2. Series A1
  3. Seed5
Estimated holdings

Day One’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Day One’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Day One is a named shareholder, worth about $38M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 You.comEnterprise Software · Unicorn 2.5% $1.5B $38M

Estimated value = Day One’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Day One’s biggest exits.

Day One 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.

$1.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $267M
$1.3B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

Day One's 11 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
11 of 11 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Day One stack up?

Day One 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.

21 founders across the 11 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Tools for Humanity are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States12
Germany5
Netherlands2
Portugal1
Peru1
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UniversityCount
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg3
Stanford University3
University of Amsterdam2
University of Aveiro1
Pontifical Catholic University of Peru1
Pompeu Fabra University1
University of Oxford1
Harvard University1
MIT Sloan School of Management1
Caltech, California Institute of Technology1
+4 more →
Origin companyCount
Tools for Humanity2
992
AZA Finance1
Airbnb1
GitLab1
Wave Mobile Money1
Salesforce1
Duo Security1
Unbabel1
Boingo Wireless1
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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.
07 · Key people

Key people at Day One.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Day One Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Day One 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 Day One Ventures

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

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