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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.

27 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #38 · Global · 27 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 27 Great Oaks Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA26
  2. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech8
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces6
  3. Other B2B Software2
  4. Health Tech & Medtech2
  5. AI2
  6. Marketing2
  7. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  8. Other1
  9. Energy1
  10. Edtech1
By stage enteredCount
Estimated holdings

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.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Fetch RewardsFintech · Unicorn 4.5% $2.5B $112M
  2. 2 ComplyAdvantageLegal · Colt 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’ 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.

$7.2B IPO · 2026
Now $7.2B
$5.7B IPO · 2021
Now $993M
$643M IPO · 2019
Now $2.8B
$2.0B IPO · 2024
Now $611M
$1.9B acquisition · 2018
$1.5B acquisition · 2023
$1.3B buyout · 2025
$1.3B acquisition · 2021
04 · Portfolio market map

Great Oaks's 27 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
27 of 27 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

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.

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.

59 founders across the 27 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States35
Palestine6
China4
Finland4
Israel2
Canada2
United Kingdom2
India2
Philippines1
Russia1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University6
University of Oxford4
Columbia Business School4
Texas A&M University4
Xiamen University3
Carnegie Mellon University3
Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
University of Waterloo2
University of California, San Francisco2
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign2
+11 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft6
Alphabet | Google6
Unit212
Meta2
eBay2
Warby Parker2
Toss1
Trulia1
Sonatype1
Zapier1
+26 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.
07 · Key people

Key people at Great Oaks.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

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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