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FirstMark

Venture capital firm · Founded 2008 · Active in 2026

FirstMark is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2008. The page below shows 34 Power Law outcomes from FirstMark's portfolio — 31 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · AI; top portfolio geographies are USA · France · UK. FirstMark ranks #127 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

34 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #127 · Global · 34 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 41% 5y
31
Decacorns ↑ 20% 5y
6
Thoroughbreds ↑ 109% 5y
24
01 · Exits

FirstMark’s biggest exits.

FirstMark 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 · 2015
Entered Series ANow $128B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $69.1B
$6.5B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $13.4B
$10.0B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $10.7B
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2009
Entered Series B+Now $2.4B
$1.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $885M
$1.3B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2026
Entered Seed
02 · Estimated holdings

FirstMark’s selected top holdings.

An estimate of FirstMark’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 7 companies where FirstMark is a named shareholder, worth about $3.2B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Ro HealthHealth · Unicorn 18.5% $7.0B $1.3B
  2. 2 SynthesiaMedia · Unicorn 16.09% $4.0B $644M
  3. 3 Cockroach LabsEnterprise Software · Unicorn 10% $5.0B $500M
  4. 4 DataikuEnterprise Software · Unicorn 9.5% $3.7B $352M
  5. 5 UpgradeFintech · Unicorn 4% $7.3B $292M
  6. 6 PendoEnterprise Software · Unicorn 4% $2.6B $104M
  7. 7 5.5% $1.0B $55M

1 company hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = FirstMark’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. FirstMark also appears inside investor groups in ClickHouse, Ledger, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 34 FirstMark Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA26
  2. France3
  3. UK2
  4. Canada2
  5. Sweden1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech8
  2. Other B2B Software6
  3. AI5
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  5. Marketing4
  6. Other2
  7. Health Tech & Medtech2
  8. Cybersecurity1
  9. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+18
  2. Series A10
  3. Seed5
04 · Portfolio market map

FirstMark's 34 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
34 of 34 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does FirstMark stack up?

FirstMark in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where FirstMark's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

131 founders across the 34 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Carnegie Mellon University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States56
France22
Germany8
Denmark7
China6
Canada5
Hungary4
India3
Russia2
Austria2
+6 more →
UniversityCount
Carnegie Mellon University6
University of Toronto4
Stanford University4
Robert H. Smith School of Business4
Mines Paris - PSL University3
Berkeley3
Columbia University3
Harvard University3
Cornell University3
Eötvös Loránd University2
+57 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google11
Microsoft11
Google DeepMind6
LendingClub4
OpenAI3
Abra2
ARM2
Yahoo!2
Atlassian1
Red Hat1
+37 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 FirstMark.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about FirstMark

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

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

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