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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.
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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eCommerce & Marketplaces8
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Fintech8
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Marketing2
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Biotech & Life Sciences2
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Other B2B Software2
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Edtech1
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Energy1
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Other1
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AI1
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Great Oaks's 28 Power Law outcomes.
Where Great Oaks's founders come from — and where they study.
61 founders across the 28 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Great Oaks.
How does Great Oaks stack up?
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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 entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsSentiment on X
What X 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
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