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Investor profile

DST Global

Venture Capital, Private Equity · Founded 2008 · London, United Kingdom

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Late-stage Internet Investment Firm

205 portfolio companies Venture Capital, Private Equity · $174B invested · 313 investments · Investor rank #17 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 57% 5y
205
Decacorns ↑ 58% 5y
38
Thoroughbreds ↑ 25% 5y
86
Exits

DST Global’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 DST Global’s transaction record.

Meta
$104B IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $1.6TMedia
Alibaba
$238B IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $270BEnterprise Software
Robinhood
$32B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $91BFintech
Spotify
$30B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $88BMusic
DoorDash
$39B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $78BFood
Xiaomi
$54B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $75BTelecom
DiDi
$73B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $14BTransportation
Nubank
$42B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $66BFintech
Anysphere | Cursor
$60B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+Enterprise Software
Meituan
acquisition · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $53BTelecom
RELX Technology
$46B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $186MHealth
X.
$25B IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $33BMedia
Portfolio analysis

Where DST Global's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 205 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA80
  2. China27
  3. India17
  4. France14
  5. UK10
  6. Indonesia7
  7. Singapore7
  8. Hong Kong4
  9. Mexico4
  10. South Korea4
  11. Sweden4
  12. Australia3
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech70
  2. Enterprise Software43
  3. Food20
  4. Transportation16
  5. Media13
  6. Marketing12
  7. Home Living11
  8. Fashion9
  9. Health8
  10. Jobs Recruitment8
  11. Education7
  12. Real Estate7
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+140
  2. Series A50
  3. Seed16
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth162
  2. Breakout Stage36
  3. Early Growth8
Portfolio market map

Inside DST Global's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 205 tracked.

Anthropic
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$965B
Waymo
Robotics · Centicorn
$126B
Databricks
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$188B
DiDi
Transportation · Decacorn
$14B
Prometheus
Robotics · Decacorn
$41B
Flipkart
Home Living · Decacorn
$36B
Stripe
Fintech · Centicorn
$159B
Meituan
Telecom · Decacorn
$53B
Robinhood
Fintech · Decacorn
$91B
Anysphere | Cursor
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$50B
Byju's
Education
$100M
Alibaba
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$270B
Gojek
Food · Decacorn
$11B
Reflection AI
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$8.0B
Klarna
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.5B
Guazi
Transportation · Unicorn
$9.0B
ByteDance
Media · Centicorn
$550B
Yuanfudao
Education · Decacorn
$16B
Ola
Transportation · Unicorn
$7.3B
Revolut
Fintech · Centicorn
$115B
Swiggy
Food · Unicorn
$8.4B
Safe Superintelligence
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$32B
Mistral AI
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$14B
Instacart
Food · Decacorn
$10B
Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
DoorDash
Food · Decacorn
$78B
Zepto
Food · Unicorn
$7.0B
Nubank
Fintech · Decacorn
$66B
Meta
Media · Gigacorn
$1.6T
JD.com
Home Living · Decacorn
$27B
Ofo
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.5B
BaseTen
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$13B
Rappi
Food · Unicorn
$5.2B
Spotify
Music · Decacorn
$88B
Chime
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.6B
Kavak
Transportation · Unicorn
$2.2B
Udaan
Hosting · Unicorn
$1.8B
Cred
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.5B
Checkout.com
Fintech · Decacorn
$12B
X.
Media · Decacorn
$33B
Airwallex
Fintech · Decacorn
$11B
Wish
Fashion
$42M
Deliveroo
Food · Unicorn
$2.7B
Xiaomi
Telecom · Decacorn
$75B
Faire
Home Living · Decacorn
$13B
Slack
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$23B
Gorillas
Food · Unicorn
$1.2B
Dingdong Maicai
Food
$442M
Alan
Health · Unicorn
$5.5B
Wealthsimple
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.3B
Nice Tuan
Food · Unicorn
$3.0B
Harvey
Legal · Decacorn
$11B
Dream11
Gaming · Unicorn
$7.3B
Brex
Fintech · Unicorn
$5.2B
Groupon
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
AUTO1 Group
Fintech · Unicorn
$7.8B
CARS24
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.3B
BlockFi
Fintech
RedNote
Media · Decacorn
$31B
Whatnot
Media · Decacorn
$12B
Portfolio founders

Where DST Global's portfolio founders come from.

192 founders across the 100 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 States80
  2. China28
  3. India17
  4. Brazil8
  5. France7
  6. Sweden7
  7. Canada6
  8. United Kingdom6
  9. Australia4
  10. Mexico4
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University14
  2. University of California, Berkeley8
  3. Harvard University7
  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
  5. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi5
  6. University of Waterloo5
  7. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5
  8. Cornell University4
  9. Harvard Business School4
  10. INSEAD Business School4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google16
  2. McKinsey & Company10
  3. Meta7
  4. Microsoft7
  5. Morgan Stanley6
  6. Goldman Sachs5
  7. Boston Consulting Group4
  8. Square4
  9. Sunopsis4
  10. Tangosol4
How DST Global stacks up

Similar investors.

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

Tiger Global
Venture Capital · New York City
#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,918 companies $23T portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,186 companies $4.6T portfolio
Accel
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#32 rank 1,156 companies $3.1T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,063 companies $1.9T portfolio
FJ Labs
Venture Capital · New York City
#226 rank 783 companies $207B portfolio
Index Ventures
Venture Capital · London
#56 rank 675 companies $1.2T portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#120 rank 983 companies $3.9T portfolio
Key people

Key people at DST Global.

John Lindfors
John Lindfors
Co-Founder
 Rahul Mehta
Rahul Mehta
Founder
 Saurabh Gupta
Saurabh Gupta
Founder
 Tom Stafford
Tom Stafford
Co-Founder
 Yuri Milner
Yuri Milner
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.