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Great Oaks Venture Capital
Venture capital firm · Founded 2003 · Active in 2026
Great Oaks Venture Capital was founded in 2003 in New York. The firm is a long-tail Seed and Series A specialist, often participating alongside larger U.S. seed funds on early consumer-internet and SaaS deals.
The numbers on this profile cover only outcomes Dealroom measures for the Power Law ranking, not the firm's full historical cap-table footprint.
Great Oaks’ biggest exits.
Great Oaks 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.
The 28 Great Oaks Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA27
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UK1
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Fintech9
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eCommerce & Marketplaces6
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Marketing2
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AI2
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Other B2B Software2
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Biotech & Life Sciences2
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Other1
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Edtech1
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Energy1
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Great Oaks’ biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Great Oaks’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Great Oaks is a named shareholder, worth about $113M in estimated equity value.
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1
Fetch Rewards
4.5%
$2.5B
$112M
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2
ComplyAdvantage
0.02%
$250M
$50K
Estimated value = Great Oaks’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Great Oaks also appears inside investor groups in Workrise, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Great Oaks's 28 Power Law outcomes.
How does Great Oaks stack up?
Great Oaks 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond 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.Where Great Oaks' portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
53 founders across the 28 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.
Key people at Great Oaks.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Great Oaks Venture Capital
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Great Oaks 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 Great Oaks Venture Capital
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Great Oaks — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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