Investor profile

Felicis

Venture capital firm · Founded 2006 · Active in 2026

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71 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #22 · Global · 71 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026

Unicorns ↑ 32% 5y

Decacorns → 0% 5y

Thoroughbreds ↑ 72% 5y

Featured in #22Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 0.5%

Felicis was founded in 2006 in Menlo Park by Aydin Senkut, an early Google product manager. The thesis is "iconoclasts welcome" — sector-agnostic bets on contrarian founders across consumer, enterprise, and frontier categories.

Notable bets include Adyen (Series A), Shopify, Canva, Notion, and Mercor. Felicis manages over $3B AUM.

Portfolio analysis

The 71 Felicis Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount

USA62
Australia2
UK1
Germany1
Ireland1
Netherlands1
Finland1
Singapore1
Canada1

By sectorCount

AI13
Fintech10
Other B2B Software7
Other6
Biotech & Life Sciences5
Health Tech & Medtech5
eCommerce & Marketplaces5
Marketing4
Cybersecurity4
Edtech3
Space3
Transportation3

By stage enteredCount

Series B+29
Series A22
Seed20

01 · Portfolio market map

Felicis's 71 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered

Outcome tier

Region

Group by

71 of 71 Power Law outcomes

02 · Founder talent

Where Felicis's founders come from — and where they study.

159 founders across the 71 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 States74

Turkey8

India7

Israel6

Ireland5

Germany4

Taiwan4

Chile3

Australia3

Sweden3

+12 more →

UniversityCount

Stanford University26

Berkeley9

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania8

Harvard University6

Massachusetts Institute of Technology6

University of Cambridge5

New York University4

NYU Stern School of Business4

Tel Aviv University3

Technological University Dublin2

+55 more →

Origin companyCount

Alphabet | Google22

Meta7

Palantir6

Microsoft6

eBay5

Yahoo!5

Atlassian3

SpaceX | xAI3

Google DeepMind3

Rent the Runway3

+71 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.

03 · Key people

Key people at Felicis.

Aydin Senkut

Founder, Managing Partner

Shopify

Supabase / Runway

Revel

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

04 · Compare with peers

How does Felicis stack up?

Felicis in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 34 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

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

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.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Felicis

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

In the news

Latest news about Felicis

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Felicis — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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