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DFJ Growth

Venture capital firm · Founded 1985 · Active in 2026

DFJ Growth is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1985. The page below shows 48 Power Law outcomes from DFJ Growth's portfolio — 43 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Cybersecurity · AI · Other; top portfolio geographies are USA · Israel · Chile. DFJ Growth ranks #344 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

48 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #344 · Global · 48 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
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Decacorns ↑ 40% 5y
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Thoroughbreds ↑ 60% 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 48 DFJ Growth Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA45
  2. Israel1
  3. Chile1
  4. Ireland1
By sectorCount
  1. Cybersecurity12
  2. AI6
  3. Other6
  4. Other B2B Software5
  5. Transportation4
  6. Fintech4
  7. Marketing2
  8. Health Tech & Medtech2
  9. Energy2
  10. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
  11. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  12. Food1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+40
  2. Series A3
Estimated holdings

DFJ Growth’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of DFJ Growth’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 5 companies where DFJ Growth is a named shareholder, worth about $618M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 OutreachMarketing · Unicorn 4.5% $4.4B $198M
  2. 2 FormlabsEngineering And Manufacturing Equipment · Unicorn 8.5% $2.0B $170M
  3. 3 NeuralinkSemiconductors · Unicorn 1% $9.7B $96M
  4. 4 Modular AIEnterprise Software · Unicorn 5.2% $1.6B $83M
  5. 5 The Boring CompanyTransportation · Unicorn 1% $7.0B $70M

Estimated value = DFJ Growth’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. DFJ Growth also appears inside investor groups in Dutchie, MapBox, NotCo, Sysdig, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

DFJ Growth’s biggest exits.

DFJ Growth 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 · 2010
Entered Series B+Now $1.6T
$73.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $46.0B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
$29.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $14.0B
$13.7B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $11.3B
$1.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $10.7B
$7.8B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $4.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $2.6B
$600M acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $2.6B
$2.2B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
$1.4B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
$1.1B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$1.1B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

DFJ Growth's 48 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
48 of 48 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does DFJ Growth stack up?

DFJ Growth 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.

102 founders across the 48 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 States54
India7
Palestine6
South Africa6
Israel4
Italy4
Uzbekistan2
Canada1
Ukraine1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
University of Pennsylvania4
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi3
Technion Israel Institute of Technology3
University of Oxford3
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign3
Cornell University3
Polytechnic University of Turin2
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business2
+35 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google8
Groq2
Enova International2
LinkedIn2
Meta2
Microsoft2
Quora2
Palantir2
Lambda1
Nvidia1
+37 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 DFJ Growth

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about DFJ Growth 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…

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Latest news about DFJ Growth

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