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Gaingels

Venture capital firm · Founded 2015 · Active in 2026

Gaingels is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2015. The page below shows 79 Power Law outcomes from Gaingels's portfolio — 74 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Health Tech & Medtech · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · India · Canada. Gaingels ranks #152 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

79 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #152 · Global · 79 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 28% 5y
74
Decacorns ↑ 50% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 167% 5y
54
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 79 Gaingels Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA68
  2. India3
  3. Canada3
  4. France1
  5. Finland1
  6. Argentina1
  7. UK1
  8. Germany1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech27
  2. Health Tech & Medtech10
  3. Transportation6
  4. Other6
  5. eCommerce & Marketplaces6
  6. AI6
  7. Marketing4
  8. Cybersecurity3
  9. Space2
  10. Robotics2
  11. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  12. Other B2B Software2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+71
  2. Series A5
Estimated holdings

Gaingels’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Gaingels’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Gaingels is a named shareholder, worth about $5M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 MobileCoinFintech · Unicorn 0.5% $1.0B $5M

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

Gaingels’ biggest exits.

Gaingels 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.

$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$8.7B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $2.5B
$7.2B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $7.2B
$5.2B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
$4.2B buyout · 2025
Entered Series B+
$3.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $327M
$3.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.2B
$2.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
$1.7B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $90M
$1.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series A
$1.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$1.1B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$605M IPO · 2023
Entered Series B+Now $1.1B
$1.0B IPO · 2021
Now $82M
$1.0B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

Gaingels's 79 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
79 of 79 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Gaingels stack up?

Gaingels 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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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.

223 founders across the 79 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States109
India13
France10
Germany9
Canada9
Finland8
Nigeria7
Iran7
China6
Palestine6
+12 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University20
Berkeley6
MIT Sloan School of Management5
Harvard University5
Yale University5
University of Oulu4
University of Oxford4
Columbia University4
University of Southern California4
Georgia Institute of Technology4
+97 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google14
Meta8
Yahoo!8
Microsoft7
SpaceX | xAI5
PayPal2
Apple2
Uber2
Tools for Humanity2
Airbnb2
+87 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Gaingels

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

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

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