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Fifty Years

Venture capital firm · Founded 2018 · Active in 2026

Fifty Years is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2018. The page below shows 10 Power Law outcomes from Fifty Years's portfolio — 9 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Fintech · Food; top portfolio geographies are USA. Fifty Years ranks #179 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

10 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #179 · Global · 10 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 125% 5y
9
Decacorns → 5y
0
Thoroughbreds → 5y
6
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 10 Fifty Years Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA10
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences5
  2. Fintech1
  3. Food1
  4. Space1
  5. Other B2B Software1
  6. Other1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A1
  2. Seed8
Estimated holdings

Fifty Years’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Fifty Years’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Fifty Years is a named shareholder, worth about $184M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 SolugenChemicals · Unicorn 7% $2.0B $140M
  2. 2 SubstackMedia · Unicorn 4% $1.1B $44M

Estimated value = Fifty Years’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Fifty Years’ biggest exits.

Fifty Years 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.

$4.0B IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $3.6B
04 · Portfolio market map

Fifty Years's 10 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
10 of 10 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Fifty Years stack up?

Fifty Years 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.

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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.

14 founders across the 10 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Kik are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States5
Germany4
New Zealand3
Canada1
Japan1
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UniversityCount
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg3
University of Otago2
University of Waterloo2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
Western University1
Stanford University1
Harvard University1
Caltech, California Institute of Technology1
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Origin companyCount
Kik3
Tools for Humanity2
Meta2
SpaceX | xAI2
devsisters1
Zeus Living1
Oklo1
Alphabet | Google1
Wave Mobile Money1
OpenAI1
+12 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.
07 · Key people

Key people at Fifty Years.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Fifty Years

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Fifty Years 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 Fifty Years

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

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