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Forerunner Ventures
Venture Capital · Founded 2007 · San Francisco, United States
Forerunner Ventures is an early stage investment firm dedicated to partnering with ambitious entrepreneurs to define and dominate a new generation of commerce.
Forerunner Ventures’ biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Forerunner Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 6 companies where Forerunner Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $1.4B in estimated equity value.
Estimated value = Forerunner Ventures’ disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Forerunner Ventures also appears inside investor groups in Decagon, ŌURA, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Forerunner Ventures’ biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Forerunner Ventures’ transaction record.
Where Forerunner Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 163 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA155
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Canada3
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UK2
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Australia1
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Finland1
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Israel1
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Fashion25
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Health23
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Fintech17
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Marketing17
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Home Living16
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Wellness Beauty16
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Enterprise Software14
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Media11
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Education8
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Food7
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Telecom6
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Event Tech5
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Seed76
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Series A61
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Series B+23
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Breakout Stage71
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Early Growth57
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Late Growth35
Inside Forerunner Ventures’ portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 163 tracked.
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ToWhere Forerunner Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.
197 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States169
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Canada4
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Australia3
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France3
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United Kingdom3
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Finland2
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Germany2
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China1
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Denmark1
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India1
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Harvard University13
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania12
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Stanford University11
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business11
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Harvard Business School6
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New York University5
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
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Princeton University4
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University of Michigan4
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Yale University4
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Alphabet | Google11
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Bain & Company10
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McKinsey & Company7
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Amazon6
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Uber6
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LinkedIn5
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Square5
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Climate Pledge Fund4
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Goldman Sachs4
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Harvard University4
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Forerunner Ventures.
