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GMO Venture Partners

Corporate venture · Founded 2005 · Active in 2026

GMO Venture Partners is a corporate venture based in Japan, founded in 2005. The page below shows 13 Power Law outcomes from GMO Venture Partners's portfolio — 11 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Other; top portfolio geographies are Japan · India · USA. GMO Venture ranks #287 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

13 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #287 · Global · 13 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
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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 13 GMO Venture Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. Japan6
  2. India3
  3. USA2
  4. Indonesia1
  5. Singapore1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech9
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  3. Other2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+8
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed3
Estimated holdings

GMO Venture’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of GMO Venture’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where GMO Venture is a named shareholder, worth about $56M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Kredivo GroupFintech · Unicorn 3.5% $1.6B $56M

Estimated value = GMO Venture’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 →

GMO Venture’s biggest exits.

GMO Venture 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.

$3.7B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $5.4B
$500M IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $1.6B
$1.2B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $1.2B
04 · Portfolio market map

GMO Venture's 13 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
13 of 13 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does GMO Venture stack up?

GMO Venture 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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Entry stage
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.

14 founders across the 13 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and Affle are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
India13
Indonesia1
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UniversityCount
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi2
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore2
Whitman College2
Universitas Bina Nusantara (Binus)1
International Institute Of Information Technology1
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee1
Graduate Institute Geneva1
Stanford University1
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Origin companyCount
Affle1
Yahoo!1
Flipkart1
DeHaat1
MakeMyTrip1
Nvidia1
PayPal1
Rappi1
Alphabet | Google1
OLX1
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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 GMO Venture Partners

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about GMO Venture 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 GMO Venture Partners

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

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