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Great Oaks Venture Capital

Venture Capital · Founded 2005 · New York City, United States

A seed-stage investment firm committed to financing and developing early stage growth businesses

350 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $2.8B invested · 500 investments · Investor rank #1,106 · Last investment 2/2026
Portfolio companies 350 ↑ 16% 5y
Decacorns 0
Thoroughbreds 23
Estimated holdings

Great Oaks Venture Capital’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Great Oaks Venture Capital’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Great Oaks Venture Capital 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 Venture Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Great Oaks Venture Capital also appears inside investor groups in Workrise, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Exits

Great Oaks Venture Capital’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Great Oaks Venture Capital’s transaction record.

$7.2B IPO · 2026
Entered SeedNow $7.2BReal Estate
$4.1B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $39MHosting
$448M IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $3.5BReal Estate
$432M IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $2.9BFintech
$2.4B IPO · 2024
Entered Series ANow $475MFintech
$1.9B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series AHealth
$1.3B acquisition · 2021
Entered SeedFintech
Portfolio analysis

Where Great Oaks Venture Capital’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 350 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA338
  2. UK3
  3. Spain2
  4. Canada1
  5. France1
  6. Georgia1
  7. India1
  8. Luxembourg1
  9. Mexico1
  10. Netherlands1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech53
  2. Health50
  3. Enterprise Software47
  4. Media39
  5. Food30
  6. Marketing25
  7. Education24
  8. Telecom24
  9. Fashion18
  10. Real Estate16
  11. Home Living14
  12. Wellness Beauty14
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed249
  2. Series A77
  3. Series B+21
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth181
  2. Breakout Stage115
  3. Late Growth53
  4. Mature1
Portfolio market map

Inside Great Oaks Venture Capital’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 350 tracked.

Bolt
Security
$300M
EquipmentShare
Real Estate · Unicorn
$7.2B
GrubMarket
Food · Unicorn
$4.5B
Workrise
Energy · Unicorn
$2.9B
Collective Health
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Houzz
Real Estate · Unicorn
$4.0B
Human Interest
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.3B
Acorns
Fintech
$514M
Course Hero
Education · Unicorn
$3.6B
Fetch Rewards
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.5B
Vimeo
Media
$993M
Maven Clinic
Health · Unicorn
$1.7B
SingleStore
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Virta Health
Health · Unicorn
$2.0B
Roofstock
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.9B
Petal
Fintech
$800M
Knock
Real Estate
$36M
Flatiron Health
Health · Unicorn
$1.9B
Foodsmart
Health
$144M
Oportun
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.9B
Genies
Media · Unicorn
$1.0B
AllTrails
Travel
$736M
Shift Technologies
Transportation
Away
Travel · Unicorn
$1.4B
Loom
Media · Unicorn
$1.5B
Happy Money
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.1B
Smartbird | formerly Allbirds
Hosting
$39M
Flex
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.2B
Peek
Travel
$400M
Eaze
Health
$140M
Plastiq
Fintech
Nylas
Enterprise Software
$480M
Breakthrough.com
Health
$20M
Mantl
Fintech
$400M
Cardless
Fintech
$240M
Verge Genomics
Health
$392M
Hired
Jobs Recruitment
$160M
Vise
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.0B
Affinity
Marketing
$320M
Plated
Food
$200M
Built Robotics
Real Estate
$256M
JOOR
Fashion
$230M
PicnicHealth
Health
$240M
Augmedix
Health
$116M
SmithRx
Health
$240M
Kargo
Transportation
$168M
Eero
Home Living
$200M
Truebill
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.3B
Fun
Fintech
$288M
Boatsetter
Travel
$152M
Hungryroot
Food
$750M
ModCloth
Fashion
$60M
Notable Labs
Health
Hint Health
Health
$180M
Mighty Networks
Education
$200M
Viagogo
Event Tech · Unicorn
$1.0B
The Muse
Jobs Recruitment
Moxe Health
Health
$120M
Ibotta
Fintech
$475M
Golden
Education
$160M
Portfolio founders

Where Great Oaks Venture Capital’s portfolio founders come from.

168 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount
  1. United States152
  2. Argentina3
  3. Canada2
  4. Bangladesh1
  5. Sweden1
  6. United Kingdom1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University20
  2. Harvard University11
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology8
  4. Stanford University Graduate School of Business8
  5. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania7
  6. Cornell University6
  7. University of Oxford5
  8. University of Pennsylvania5
  9. University of Wisconsin-Madison5
  10. Columbia University4
Previous companyCount
  1. Goldman Sachs8
  2. ClearCarbon6
  3. Deloitte6
  4. McKinsey & Company6
  5. Stanford University6
  6. Alphabet | Google5
  7. Bersin by Deloitte5
  8. Microsoft5
  9. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center3
  10. Credit Suisse3
Key people

Key people at Great Oaks Venture Capital.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.