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DFJ Growth

Venture Capital · Founded 1985 · Menlo Park, United States

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Invests in early and late growth disruptive tech companies

95 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $20B invested · 150 investments · Investor rank #119 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 25% 5y
95
Decacorns ↑ 33% 5y
8
Thoroughbreds ↑ 11% 5y
31
Exits

DFJ Growth’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 DFJ Growth’s transaction record.

Tesla
$1.7B IPO · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $1.4TEnergy
Coinbase
$86B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $39BFintech
Scale
$29B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
Livongo Health
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $14BHealth
Unity Technologies
$14B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $13BGaming
Anaplan
$1.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $11BEnterprise Software
BlackBerry
IPO · 1999
Entered Series B+Now $5.1BTelecom
Box
$1.7B IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $4.8BSecurity
Modular AI
$4.0B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
SolarCity
$584M IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $2.6BEnergy
Ping Identity Corporation
$600M acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $2.6BSecurity
Sumo Logic
$2.2B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.2BSecurity
Portfolio analysis

Where DFJ Growth's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 95 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA86
  2. China3
  3. Israel2
  4. Canada1
  5. Chile1
  6. India1
  7. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software27
  2. Security15
  3. Health12
  4. Fintech11
  5. Energy7
  6. Media7
  7. Marketing6
  8. Robotics6
  9. Telecom6
  10. Semiconductors4
  11. Transportation4
  12. Education3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+82
  2. Series A12
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth70
  2. Breakout Stage17
  3. Early Growth6
  4. Mature2
Portfolio market map

Inside DFJ Growth's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 95 tracked.

Anduril
Security · Decacorn
$61B
Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Energy · Unicorn
$3.5B
Saronic Technologies
Robotics · Unicorn
$9.3B
Scale
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$29B
Katerra
Real Estate
Neuralink
Health · Unicorn
$9.7B
Impulse Space
Space · Unicorn
$4.3B
DataRobot
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.3B
Hopin
Event Tech
$38M
The Boring Company
Real Estate · Unicorn
$7.0B
Unity Technologies
Gaming · Decacorn
$13B
Cohesity
Security · Unicorn
$7.0B
BrightSource Energy
Energy
$320M
Avant
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.0B
Sysdig
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
Collective Health
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Cellares
Health · Unicorn
$1.3B
MapBox
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.3B
Dutchie
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.8B
BetterUP
Education · Unicorn
$4.7B
Box
Security · Unicorn
$4.8B
Alchemy
Fintech · Decacorn
$10B
Coinbase
Fintech · Decacorn
$39B
Outreach
Telecom · Unicorn
$4.4B
DataStax
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.6B
Cambridge Aerospace
Security
$400M
NotCo
Food · Unicorn
$1.5B
Helix
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Foursquare
Marketing
$600M
SolarCity
Energy · Unicorn
$2.6B
Modular AI
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$4.0B
Patreon
Music · Unicorn
$4.0B
Oosto
Security
$125M
Sumo Logic
Security · Unicorn
$1.2B
Innovium
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$1.1B
Delfi Diagnostics
Health
$900M
BlackBerry
Telecom · Unicorn
$5.1B
Positron
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$1.0B
Anaplan
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$11B
Cylance
Security · Unicorn
$1.4B
Silver Spring Networks
Energy
$830M
Paradigm
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Sisense
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
SimpliVity
Enterprise Software
$650M
XBOW
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Salt Security
Security · Unicorn
$1.4B
Immuta
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Formlabs
Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment · Unicorn
$2.0B
Yellowbrick Data
Enterprise Software
$405M
Livongo Health
Health · Decacorn
$14B
Tesla
Energy · Gigacorn
$1.4T
ring
Real Estate · Unicorn
$1.0B
ClinChoice ( formally Fountain Medical Development)
Health
$600M
Goodfire
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Endor Labs
Enterprise Software
$372M
Neocis
Health
$360M
Numerion Labs
Health
$492M
Aera Technology
Enterprise Software
$320M
Splice
Music
$500M
Giphy
Telecom
$528M
Portfolio founders

Where DFJ Growth's portfolio founders come from.

136 founders across the 95 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 States107
  2. United Kingdom7
  3. Chile3
  4. Argentina2
  5. Canada2
  6. Israel2
  7. Denmark1
  8. Hong Kong1
  9. India1
  10. Netherlands1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University14
  2. Harvard University8
  3. Stanford University Graduate School of Business7
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
  5. Cornell University4
  6. Harvard Business School4
  7. University of Oxford4
  8. University of Pennsylvania4
  9. University of Southern California4
  10. New York University3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google8
  2. Microsoft6
  3. Palantir3
  4. Stanford University3
  5. 42Six Solutions2
  6. Amazon2
  7. BEA Systems2
  8. Boxer2
  9. CEINT2
  10. Climate Pledge Fund2
How DFJ Growth stacks up

Similar investors.

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

NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,184 companies $2.5T portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,186 companies $4.6T portfolio
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#10 rank 952 companies $2.4T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#54 rank 847 companies $1.9T portfolio
Founders Fund
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#49 rank 611 companies $7.3T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,063 companies $1.9T portfolio
Tiger Global
Venture Capital · New York City
#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
Key people

Key people at DFJ Growth.

Tim Draper
Tim Draper
Founding Partner
 David Williams
David Williams
Partner
 Mark Bailey
Mark Bailey
Founder
 Perry Ha
Perry Ha
Founder
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.