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Investor profile

Franklin Templeton Investments

Venture Capital · Founded 1947 · Saint Petersburg, United States

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Global investment management solutions for institutional and retail clients

171 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $38B invested · 230 investments · Investor rank #75 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies ↑ 60% 5y
171
Decacorns ↑ 23% 5y
17
Thoroughbreds ↑ 32% 5y
61
Exits

Franklin Templeton Investments’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 Franklin Templeton Investments’s transaction record.

Cloudflare
$4.4B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $98BSecurity
Natera
$1.8B IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $38BHealth
Samsara
$12B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $22BEnterprise Software
HashiCorp
$14B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $7.1BSecurity
DraftKings
$3.3B acquisition · 2019
Now $13BGaming
Confluent
$11B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $10BEnterprise Software
GitLab
$11B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.3BSecurity
Tempus
$6.6B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $10BHealth
Ather Energy
$1.4B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $6.4BTransportation
Centessa Pharmaceuticals
$1.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $6.1BHealth
BILL
$1.6B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $4.2BFintech
Smartbird | formerly Allbirds
$4.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $43MHosting
Portfolio analysis

Where Franklin Templeton Investments's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 171 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA138
  2. India7
  3. Singapore7
  4. Canada4
  5. British Virgin Islands2
  6. China2
  7. Hong Kong2
  8. Brazil1
  9. Cayman Islands1
  10. Germany1
  11. Israel1
  12. Norway1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech60
  2. Enterprise Software47
  3. Health24
  4. Transportation20
  5. Security14
  6. Energy11
  7. Media7
  8. Jobs Recruitment5
  9. Gaming4
  10. Marketing4
  11. Fashion3
  12. Semiconductors3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+99
  2. Series A34
  3. Seed24
By growth stageCount
  1. Late Growth102
  2. Breakout Stage38
  3. Early Growth30
  4. Mature1
Portfolio market map

Inside Franklin Templeton Investments's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 171 tracked.

Databricks
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$188B
Flipkart
Home Living · Decacorn
$36B
Epic Games
Gaming · Decacorn
$18B
Fanatics
Sports · Decacorn
$31B
Lucid Motors
Energy · Unicorn
$5.3B
Crusoe
Energy · Decacorn
$10B
Redwood Materials
Energy · Unicorn
$6.0B
EQRx
Health
Lacework
Security · Unicorn
$8.3B
Checkout.com
Fintech · Decacorn
$12B
Celonis
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$13B
Snyk
Security · Unicorn
$7.4B
Ola Electric
Transportation · Unicorn
$2.5B
Lime
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.6B
Airtable
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$11B
Plaid
Fintech · Unicorn
$8.0B
Proterra
Energy
$210M
Applied Intuition
Transportation · Decacorn
$15B
OneTrust
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
DataRobot
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.3B
T1 Energy
Energy · Unicorn
$2.5B
Discord
Gaming · Decacorn
$15B
Wheels Up
Travel
$713M
DraftKings
Gaming · Decacorn
$13B
Samsara
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$22B
Tempus
Health · Decacorn
$10B
SpotOn
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.6B
Astranis
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.8B
Tanium
Security · Unicorn
$9.0B
STORD
Transportation · Unicorn
$3.0B
Workrise
Energy · Unicorn
$2.9B
Gusto
Fintech
$9K
Ather Energy
Transportation · Unicorn
$6.4B
Vestwell
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.0B
SES AI
Energy
$66M
Gong
Marketing · Unicorn
$7.3B
Forterra
Robotics · Unicorn
$1.0B
Payoneer
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.2B
Illumio
Security · Unicorn
$2.8B
Checkr
Legal · Unicorn
$4.6B
Talkdesk
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$10B
Goat
Fashion · Unicorn
$3.7B
CesiumAstro
Telecom · Unicorn
$1.1B
Confluent
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$10B
Blaize
Semiconductors
$121M
GitLab
Security · Unicorn
$4.3B
6Sense
Marketing · Unicorn
$5.2B
Amagi Media Labs
Media
$869M
Benchling
Health · Unicorn
$6.1B
Rent the Runway
Fashion
$272M
CAIS
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.1B
Alkami
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.2B
Carmot Therapeutics
Health · Unicorn
$2.7B
Candid Therapeutics
Health · Unicorn
$2.0B
Day One Biopharmaceuticals
Health · Unicorn
$1.8B
ClearMotion
Transportation
$575M
Aptos Labs
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.0B
Cloudflare
Security · Decacorn
$98B
HashiCorp
Security · Unicorn
$7.1B
BILL
Fintech · Unicorn
$4.2B
Portfolio founders

Where Franklin Templeton Investments's portfolio founders come from.

169 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.

LocationCount
  1. United States124
  2. Canada7
  3. India6
  4. United Kingdom6
  5. Israel4
  6. Germany3
  7. Netherlands3
  8. Italy2
  9. Norway2
  10. Switzerland2
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University14
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology13
  3. University of California, Berkeley8
  4. Harvard University7
  5. Harvard Business School6
  6. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5
  7. Duke University4
  8. The University of Chicago4
  9. Columbia University3
  10. Georgia Institute of Technology3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google11
  2. Microsoft7
  3. IBM6
  4. Intel Corporation6
  5. Meta6
  6. Intel NAND Memory Unit5
  7. Cognitive Security4
  8. Goldman Sachs4
  9. Lehman Brothers4
  10. Teach For America4
How Franklin Templeton Investments stacks up

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Key people

Key people at Franklin Templeton Investments.

Julia Siedlecka-Nowak
Julia Siedlecka-Nowak
Partner
 Mary Ellen Martinelli, SPHR
Mary Ellen Martinelli, SPHR
Director
 Aleksandra Gąsiorowska
Aleksandra Gąsiorowska
Partner
 Natalia Mirabito Hoar
Natalia Mirabito Hoar
Marketing Manager
 Bernadette Martinez
Bernadette Martinez
Partner
 Constanze Beier
Constanze Beier
Partner
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.