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DCVC

Venture capital firm · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026

DCVC is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, USA, founded in 2010. The page below shows 56 Power Law outcomes from DCVC's portfolio — 51 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 · Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada · Portugal. DCVC ranks #28 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

56 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #28 · Global · 56 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 46% 5y
51
Decacorns ↓ 17% 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 79% 5y
30
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 56 DCVC Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA51
  2. Canada2
  3. Portugal1
  4. China1
  5. New Zealand1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software9
  2. Fintech8
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences8
  4. Cybersecurity6
  5. Energy6
  6. AI5
  7. Food3
  8. Space3
  9. Edtech2
  10. Other2
  11. Transportation1
  12. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+14
  2. Series A20
  3. Seed17
Estimated holdings

DCVC’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of DCVC’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 7 companies where DCVC is a named shareholder, worth about $1.0B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Agility RoboticsRobotics · Unicorn 21% $1.8B $368M
  2. 2 Carbon HealthHealth · Unicorn 8.9% $3.3B $294M
  3. 3 TwelveEnergy · Unicorn 13.5% $2.0B $270M
  4. 4 AlationEnterprise Software · Unicorn 3.5% $1.7B $60M
  5. 5 FreenomeHealth · Unicorn 3% $1.5B $45M
  6. 6 Chai DiscoveryHealth · Unicorn 0.6% $1.3B $8M
  7. 7 0.09% $250M $225K

1 company hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = DCVC’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. DCVC also appears inside investor groups in Checkr, Feedzai, Plenty, StarkWare Industries, Tradeshift, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

DCVC’s biggest exits.

DCVC 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.

$82.0B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $153B
$4.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $77.3B
$2.8B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $15.6B
$2.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $14.5B
$11.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $10.2B
$11.1B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $11.1B
$10.0B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $5.8B
$850M IPO · 2023
Entered Series ANow $9.3B
$1.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $8.4B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $7.6B
$6.4B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $718M
$5.2B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $71M
$4.9B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $5.0B
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $226M
$2.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $1.0B
$2.2B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
$1.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.1B
$1.3B buyout · 2025
Entered Series A
$1.3B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series A
$556M IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $1.2B
$1.2B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $1.2B
$1.0B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $275M
04 · Portfolio market map

DCVC's 56 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
56 of 56 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does DCVC stack up?

DCVC 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.

144 founders across the 56 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States63
Portugal10
Canada8
China6
Russia5
Israel5
India5
Taiwan4
United Kingdom4
Mexico2
+8 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology12
University of Waterloo5
University of Wisconsin-Madison4
Harvard University4
Georgia Institute of Technology4
University of Coimbra3
Tsinghua University3
UCLA Anderson School of Management2
Brown University2
+47 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google16
Microsoft11
LinkedIn3
Airbnb3
PayPal3
Meta3
Apple3
Databricks2
MosaicML2
Akamai2
+51 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 DCVC

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

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Latest news about DCVC

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