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Firstminute Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2017 · Active in 2026

Firstminute Capital is a venture capital firm based in UK, founded in 2017. The page below shows 5 Power Law outcomes from Firstminute Capital's portfolio — 5 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are UK · Germany · USA. Firstminute ranks #488 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

5 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #488 · Global · 5 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
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Decacorns → 5y
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Thoroughbreds → 5y
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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 5 Firstminute Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. UK2
  2. Germany1
  3. USA1
  4. France1
By sectorCount
  1. AI4
  2. Transportation1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A1
  2. Seed4
Estimated holdings

Firstminute’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Firstminute’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Firstminute is a named shareholder, worth about $130M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 WayveTransportation · Unicorn 1.51% $8.6B $130M
  2. 2 Elephant HealthcareHealth · Colt 0.56% $80M $448K

Estimated value = Firstminute’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Firstminute also appears inside investor groups in N8n, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Firstminute's 5 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
5 of 5 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Firstminute stack up?

Firstminute 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.

Compare against

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.

22 founders across the 5 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Cambridge and Uber are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
France6
New Zealand5
United Kingdom3
Germany1
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UniversityCount
University of Cambridge5
Auckland University of Technology2
École Polytechnique - IP Paris2
The University of Auckland1
National University of La Plata1
Birzeit University1
Paris-Saclay University1
Télécom Paris - IP Paris1
Stuttgart Media University1
University of Seville1
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Origin companyCount
Uber2
Digital Domain1
Skydio1
Alphabet | Google1
Pagaya1
RiversideFM1
Meta1
Google DeepMind1
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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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Firstminute Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Firstminute 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 Firstminute Capital

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

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