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Haystack
Venture Capital · Founded 2013 · San Francisco, United States
Haystack’s biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Haystack still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Haystack, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.
Unicorns and thoroughbreds Haystack has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Haystack’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 Haystack’s transaction record.
Where Haystack’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 149 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA144
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Canada4
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Australia1
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Israel1
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Mexico1
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Puerto Rico1
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South Africa1
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UK1
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Enterprise Software53
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Fintech21
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Marketing15
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Security15
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Transportation12
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Health8
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Media8
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Food7
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Education6
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Robotics6
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Legal5
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Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment4
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Seed107
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Series A32
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Series B+11
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Breakout Stage61
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Early Growth60
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Late Growth33
Inside Haystack’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 149 tracked.
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MeWhere Haystack’s portfolio founders come from.
161 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.
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United States150
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Mexico3
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Canada2
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Hungary1
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Spain1
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United Kingdom1
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Stanford University11
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology9
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University of California, Berkeley9
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Harvard Business School8
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Harvard University6
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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania6
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Yale University5
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Cornell University4
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University of Michigan4
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Carnegie Mellon University3
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Alphabet | Google11
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Microsoft9
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Uber6
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Meta5
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Amazon4
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Formlabs4
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LinkedIn4
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Goldman Sachs3
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McKinsey & Company3
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Square3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
