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Formation 8
Venture Capital · Founded 2011 · San Francisco, United States
Formation 8’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Formation 8 still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Where a cap table names Formation 8 directly, the stake and its estimated value are shown too.
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1
Color Health
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$4.6B
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Yello Mobile
11.2%
$4.0B
$448M
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Ironclad
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$3.2B
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Illumio
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$2.8B
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Qualia Labs
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$2.5B
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Aviatrix Systems
10%
$2.0B
$200M
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Collective Health
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$1.5B
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Augury
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$1.0B
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Simply
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$1.0B
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Estimated value = Formation 8’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 →
Formation 8’s 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 Formation 8’s transaction record.
Where Formation 8’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 94 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA81
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Canada4
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South Korea3
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UK3
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Israel2
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Singapore2
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Australia1
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Cuba1
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Enterprise Software24
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Health15
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Fintech14
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Media8
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Education7
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Food7
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Real Estate7
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Energy6
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Marketing6
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Security6
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Fashion5
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Consumer Electronics4
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Series A42
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Seed29
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Series B+23
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Breakout Stage39
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Late Growth34
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Early Growth25
Inside Formation 8’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 94 tracked.
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GlWhere Formation 8’s portfolio founders come from.
125 founders across the 98 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 States84
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South Korea9
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Israel6
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Canada4
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Australia3
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United Kingdom3
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Argentina1
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Croatia1
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Cuba1
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Finland1
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Stanford University17
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology7
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Harvard University4
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University of Maryland4
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University of Oxford4
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Cornell University3
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology3
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Tel Aviv University3
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University of California, San Diego3
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University of Waterloo3
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Alphabet | Google6
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Microsoft5
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Yahoo!4
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Formation 83
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MIT Media Lab3
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BillGuard2
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Chevron2
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Intel Corporation2
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Khosla Ventures2
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McKinsey & Company2
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
