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Great Oaks Venture Capital

Venture capital firm · New York, USA · Founded 2003 · Active in 2026

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28 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #20 · 28 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Enterprise value ↓ 6% 5y
$46B
Unicorns ↑ 18% 5y
26
Decacorns → 5y
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 17% 5y
28
Featured in #20Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 Top 0.5%by Seed → $100M+ revenue outcomes

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.

Portfolio analysis

The 28 Great Oaks Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue and above).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA27
  2. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces8
  2. Fintech8
  3. Health Tech & Medtech2
  4. Marketing2
  5. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  6. Other B2B Software2
  7. Edtech1
  8. Energy1
  9. Other1
  10. AI1
By stage enteredCount
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01 · Portfolio market map

Great Oaks's 28 Power Law outcomes.

Toggle between a sector landscape and a world map. Both views respond to the stage and outcome-tier filters. The faded names at the bottom of bigger boxes are part of the full list — click "+ N more" to reveal them.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
28 of 28 Power Law outcomes
Logos hosted by Dealroom; click any chip to open the company in app.dealroom.co. The dot inside each chip shows the company's highest tier — red Gigacorn, violet Centicorn/Decacorn, lavender Unicorn, blue Thoroughbred, green Colt. Tiers are inclusive: a Unicorn (e.g. Klarna) also matches the Thoroughbred filter, a Decacorn also matches Unicorn and Thoroughbred, and so on up the ladder. Colt is a separate axis (high-growth, smaller revenue) and only matches itself. Map dots use the same colour code; hover for details. Sectors are mutually exclusive (priority-ordered classification). Stage entered = the round Great Oaks first invested in (where data is available — coverage 93%).
02 · Origin of portfolio founders

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.

LocationCount
United States36
Palestine6
China4
Finland4
Sweden3
Canada2
United Kingdom2
India2
Philippines1
Russia1
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UniversityCount
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania8
Stanford University6
University of Oxford4
Columbia Business School4
Texas A&M University4
Xiamen University3
Brown University3
Carnegie Mellon University3
Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
University of Waterloo2
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Origin companyCount
Microsoft6
Alphabet | Google6
Meta3
Unit212
Warby Parker2
Zapier1
Toss1
Sonatype1
Kakao Corp1
Trulia1
+22 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. Explore the full Sequoia infographic on Thoroughbreds & Unicorns →
03 · Key people

Key people at Great Oaks.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Great Oaks stack up?

Great Oaks in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — filter by region 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 global unicorns minted that year — peaks reveal vintage years.

Compare against

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Share of new unicorns per year

% of all global unicorns minted that year, year by year
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.

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Data as of 15 Apr 2026 · Source: Dealroom Power Law dataset · Methodology
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