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Garry Tan

Angel · San Francisco, United States

A Stanford engineer, ex-Microsoft, Palantir, and now President & CEO of Y Combinator. Co-founded Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and Initialized Capital, investing in companies like Coinbase.

LinkedIn ↗
74 portfolio companies Angel · $991M invested · 80 investments · Investor rank #2,987 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies 74 ↑ 48% 5y
Decacorns 2 ↑ 100% 5y
Thoroughbreds 12 ↑ 38% 5y
Power Law #166Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 1%
01 · Biggest holdings

Garry Tan’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Garry Tan 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.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 PerplexityDecacorn · Enterprise Software · USA — $20.0B —
  2. 2 FlexportUnicorn · Transportation · USA — $8.0B —
  3. 3 LambdaUnicorn · Hosting · USA — $6.0B —
  4. 4 PatreonUnicorn · Music · USA — $4.0B —
  5. 5 Black Forest LabsUnicorn · Media · Germany — $3.3B —
  6. 6 NewLimitUnicorn · Health · USA — $3.1B —
  7. 7 PhantomUnicorn · Fintech · USA — $3.0B —
  8. 8 FrontUnicorn · Marketing · USA — $1.7B —
  9. 9 OdysseyUnicorn · Media · USA — $1.4B —
  10. 10 EnvoyUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA — $1.4B —
  11. 11 SiftUnicorn · Security · USA — $1.0B —
  12. 12 LobEnterprise Software · USA — $200M —

Estimated value = Garry Tan’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 →

02 · Portfolio analysis

Where Garry Tan’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 74 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA93
  2. Canada3
  3. Germany1
  4. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software36
  2. Media16
  3. Fintech14
  4. Marketing12
  5. Home Living8
  6. Transportation6
  7. Education5
  8. Health5
  9. Semiconductors3
  10. Telecom3
  11. Consumer Electronics2
  12. Energy2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed53
  2. Series A17
  3. Series B+4
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth41
  2. Breakout Stage36
  3. Late Growth20
03 · Portfolio market map

Inside Garry Tan’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 74 tracked.

Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
Lambda
Hosting · Unicorn
$6.0B
Opendoor
Real Estate · Unicorn
$4.4B
Perplexity
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$20B
NewLimit
Health · Unicorn
$3.1B
Coinbase
Fintech · Decacorn
$38B
Black Forest Labs
Media · Unicorn
$3.3B
Patreon
Music · Unicorn
$4.0B
Odyssey
Media · Unicorn
$1.4B
Phantom
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.0B
Heap
Marketing
$960M
Front
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.7B
Envoy
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.4B
North
Fashion
$480M
Sift
Security · Unicorn
$1.0B
Meta Co.
Home Living
$200M
LendUp
Fintech
Silo
Food
$140M
Panorama Education
Education
$300M
Eero
Home Living
$200M
Modus
Fintech
$272M
Monaco
Marketing
$200M
Lob
Enterprise Software
$200M
Digit
Fintech
$213M
Giga
Enterprise Software
$244M
Bellhops
Home Living
$126M
Tilt
Fintech
$92M
Entire
Enterprise Software
$300M
Arrive
Transportation
Comprehend
Health
$60M
Privy
Enterprise Software
$60M
Playground
Media
$163M
Monogram
Enterprise Software
$160M
Origin Protocol
Enterprise Software
$26M
Kamcord
Telecom
$40M
ParkWhiz
Transportation
$96M
Secret
Marketing
$100M
Rainmaker
Energy
$100M
Fable Security
Hosting
$124M
Foundation Health
Health
$24M
Virool
Media
$48M
Ambition
Marketing
$62M
Swiftype
Enterprise Software
$52M
Move Loot
Home Living
$40M
Survata
Marketing
$56M
LeadGenius
Education
$12M
Fifth Door
Gaming
$80M
Wabi
Media
$80M
Oboe
Enterprise Software
$64M
Standard Fleet
Transportation
$52M
CreatorDAO
Fintech
$80M
dili
Fintech
$60M
SignalRank
Fintech
$30M
Beeper
Media
$125M
URX
USA
$48M
Extropic
Semiconductors
$56M
SpoonRocket
Food
$44M
eponym
Fashion
$28M
Taplytics
Fintech
$8.8M
SendHub
Education
$20M
04 · Portfolio founders

Where Garry Tan’s portfolio founders come from.

140 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.

LocationCount
  1. United States115
  2. United Kingdom6
  3. Germany5
  4. Australia3
  5. Argentina1
  6. Belgium1
  7. British Indian Ocean Territory1
  8. Canada1
  9. France1
  10. Netherlands1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University12
  2. University of California, Berkeley8
  3. Duke University5
  4. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania5
  5. Harvard University3
  6. New York University3
  7. University of Michigan3
  8. University of Oxford3
  9. University of Pennsylvania3
  10. University of Tennessee, Knoxville3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google11
  2. Microsoft7
  3. Meta4
  4. Stanford University4
  5. 0x3
  6. Coinbase3
  7. IBM3
  8. LinkedIn3
  9. McKinsey & Company3
  10. Palantir3
05 · Similar investors

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#109 rank 986 companies $3.7T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#62 rank 7,127 companies $1.9T portfolio
500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#431 rank 2,321 companies $284B portfolio
Andreessen Horowitz
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#2 rank 1,188 companies $4.4T portfolio
Initialized Capital
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#446 rank 267 companies $157B portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,921 companies $23T portfolio
Tiger Global
Private Equity · New York City
#19 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
First Round Capital
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#190 rank 512 companies $377B portfolio