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GV

Corporate venture · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026

GV is a corporate venture based in Mountain View, USA, founded in 2009. The page below shows 156 Power Law outcomes from GV's portfolio — 143 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · AI · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Finland. GV ranks #20 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

156 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #20 · Global · 156 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 44% 5y
143
Decacorns ↓ 23% 5y
10
Thoroughbreds ↑ 62% 5y
103
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 156 GV Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA138
  2. UK12
  3. Finland1
  4. Canada1
  5. France1
  6. South Africa1
  7. Switzerland1
  8. Israel1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences34
  2. AI24
  3. Cybersecurity16
  4. Other B2B Software16
  5. Fintech15
  6. eCommerce & Marketplaces13
  7. Health Tech & Medtech12
  8. Marketing7
  9. Other5
  10. Transportation5
  11. Edtech4
  12. Food3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+107
  2. Series A30
  3. Seed12
Estimated holdings

GV’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of GV’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 28 companies where GV is a named shareholder, worth about $7.5B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 VercelEnterprise Software · Unicorn 8.5% $9.3B $791M
  2. 2 OpenEvidenceHealth · Decacorn 6% $12.0B $720M
  3. 3 HarveyLegal · Decacorn 6% $11.0B $660M
  4. 4 LightmatterSemiconductors · Unicorn 14.5% $4.4B $638M
  5. 5 WonderFood · Unicorn 7.5% $7.0B $525M
  6. 6 SambaNova SystemsSemiconductors · Unicorn 7% $5.0B $350M
  7. 7 8.5% $4.0B $340M
  8. 8 6.5% $5.0B $325M
  9. 9 14.5% $2.2B $319M
  10. 10 10.5% $2.9B $299M
  11. 11 16.5% $1.8B $297M
  12. 12 7% $3.8B $266M

Showing the 12 largest of 28 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = GV’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. GV also appears inside investor groups in Aledade, Cohesity, Flexport, Harness, Mission Lane, Monzo Bank, Podium, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

GV’s biggest exits.

GV 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.

$82.0B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $153B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $67.5B
$15.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $23.4B
$2.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $21.8B
$20.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $11.7B
$18.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $4.7B
$2.0B IPO · 2019
Now $15.1B
$11.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.3B
$9.1B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $9.1B
$4.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
$8.3B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series B+
$8.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series ANow $8.0B
$5.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $5.3B
$4.1B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $5.3B
$4.9B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $4.9B
$527M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $4.9B
$4.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $543M
$1.6B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $4.2B
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $4.0B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $3.9B
$1.7B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $3.7B
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Now $150M

+33 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

GV's 156 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
156 of 156 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does GV stack up?

GV 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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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.

462 founders across the 156 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.

LocationCount
United States259
United Kingdom31
India22
Canada14
Germany10
Israel8
Iran7
Sweden7
Denmark7
Palestine6
+20 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University38
Massachusetts Institute of Technology32
Berkeley14
University of Michigan13
University of Oxford11
Harvard Business School11
Harvard University10
University of Cambridge6
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania6
University of Waterloo5
+138 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google43
Microsoft21
Yahoo!16
Meta16
Apple12
Google DeepMind7
Uber5
Shopify4
Nvidia4
OpenAI4
+153 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about GV

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about GV 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 GV

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning GV — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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