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Emergence
Venture Capital · Founded 2003 · San Mateo, United States
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Emergence’s biggest current holdings.
Emergence is a named shareholder in 6 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $1.2B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 6 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.
Together
$415M
5% of $8.3B
Ironclad
$272M
8.5% of $3.2B
Project44
$242M
11% of $2.2B
Genspark
$169M
6.5% of $2.6B
G2
$60M
6% of $1.0B
Gusto
$0K
4.5% of $9K
Estimated value = Emergence’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Emergence also appears inside investor groups in Clearco, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Emergence’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 Emergence’s transaction record.
Where Emergence’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 120 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA117
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Canada5
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Argentina2
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China1
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Denmark1
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France1
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Italy1
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UK1
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Enterprise Software59
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Marketing24
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Fintech21
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Health9
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Jobs Recruitment9
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Telecom9
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Media8
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Education6
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Security6
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Legal5
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Food3
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Transportation3
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Series A62
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Series B+44
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Seed18
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Breakout Stage67
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Late Growth40
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Early Growth21
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Mature1
Inside Emergence’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 120 tracked.
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ThWhere Emergence’s portfolio founders come from.
147 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.
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United States111
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Canada6
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Argentina4
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China4
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United Kingdom4
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India2
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Bangladesh1
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France1
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Germany1
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Ireland1
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Stanford University15
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business8
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University of California, Berkeley6
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Harvard University4
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Rhodes University4
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University of Wisconsin-Madison4
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Dartmouth College3
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Tufts University3
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University of California, Los Angeles3
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Alphabet | Google9
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Microsoft7
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IBM5
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McKinsey & Company5
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Oracle5
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Stanford University5
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Sunopsis4
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Tangosol4
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Aon3
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BigMachines3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
