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Felicis
Venture capital firm · Founded 2006 · Active in 2026
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.
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.
The 73 Felicis Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA64
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Australia2
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Singapore1
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Germany1
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Netherlands1
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Finland1
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UK1
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Canada1
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Ireland1
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AI14
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Fintech10
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Other B2B Software8
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Health Tech & Medtech6
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Other6
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eCommerce & Marketplaces5
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Biotech & Life Sciences5
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Marketing4
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Cybersecurity4
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Edtech3
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Transportation3
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Space2
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Series B+29
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Series A22
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Seed20
Felicis’ biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Felicis’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 13 companies where Felicis is a named shareholder, worth about $4.6B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 13 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Felicis’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Felicis also appears inside investor groups in ClassDojo, Notion, Plaid, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Felicis’ biggest exits.
Felicis 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.
+1 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
Felicis's 73 Power Law outcomes.
How does Felicis stack up?
Felicis 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond 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.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
152 founders across the 73 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.
Key people at Felicis.
Market sentiment
What the market 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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