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Haystack

Venture Capital · Founded 2013 · San Francisco, United States

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Seed stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco

149 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $2.3B invested · 191 investments · Investor rank #1,362 · Last investment 7/2026
Portfolio companies 149 ↑ 46% 5y
Decacorns 2
Thoroughbreds 12 ↑ 33% 5y
Power Law #150Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 1%
Exits

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.

DoorDash
$39B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $84BFood
Figma
$19B IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $11BMedia
HashiCorp
$14B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $7.1BSecurity
Instacart
$9.9B IPO · 2023
Entered SeedNow $9.9BFood
Opendoor
$4.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $4.0BReal Estate
Ibotta
$2.4B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $475MFintech
Portfolio analysis

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.

By countryCount
  1. USA151
  2. Canada5
  3. Australia1
  4. Israel1
  5. Mexico1
  6. Puerto Rico1
  7. South Africa1
  8. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software54
  2. Fintech21
  3. Marketing15
  4. Security15
  5. Transportation12
  6. Health9
  7. Media9
  8. Education8
  9. Food8
  10. Legal6
  11. Robotics6
  12. Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment4
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed113
  2. Series A33
  3. Series B+15
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage66
  2. Early Growth61
  3. Late Growth35
Portfolio market map

Inside Haystack’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 149 tracked.

Instacart
Food · Unicorn
$9.9B
DoorDash
Food · Decacorn
$84B
Opendoor
Real Estate · Unicorn
$4.0B
Carta
Legal · Unicorn
$7.4B
Astranis
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.8B
Figma
Media · Decacorn
$11B
SeatGeek
Media · Unicorn
$1.0B
Wag
Home Living
$14M
HashiCorp
Security · Unicorn
$7.1B
Ironclad
Legal · Unicorn
$3.2B
Saildrone
Robotics
$500M
Redpanda
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Norm AI
Legal · Unicorn
$1.2B
People.ai
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
Envoy
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.4B
Virtru
Security
$500M
Nominal
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.0B
Farcaster
Media
$600M
LatchBio
Health
$112M
Tempo Automation
Semiconductors
$19M
Lumafield
Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment
$300M
Galvanize
Education
$165M
Imagen Technologies
Health
$255M
Hired
Jobs Recruitment
$160M
nTop
Enterprise Software
$200M
Scribe
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.3B
Stedi
Enterprise Software
$200M
Cambly
Education
$250M
Silo
Food
$140M
Scoop Technologies
Transportation
$300M
Esper.io
Enterprise Software
$240M
Buf Technologies
Enterprise Software
$272M
Fiddler
Enterprise Software
$120M
Resolve
Fintech
$300M
Managed by Q
Real Estate
$100M
AirMap
Robotics
$104M
Gather
Enterprise Software
$200M
Optimus Ride
Transportation
$200M
Grovo
Education
$45M
Amino
Media
$180M
Databook
Marketing
$550M
WorkRamp
Education
$160M
Headout
Travel
$120M
Redpanda
Security
Paddle8
Fintech
$136M
Narvar
Telecom
$120M
Daily
Media
$160M
Navdy
Home Living
$80M
Ibotta
Fintech
$475M
BentoBox
Food
$115M
People Data Labs
Jobs Recruitment
$180M
Layup Parts
Engineering and Manufacturing Equipment
$168M
Moxie
Health
$100M
Cobalt AI
Security
$140M
SkySafe
Security
$120M
Haus
Marketing
$80M
Ferme d’hiver
Food
$135M
Brighthire
Jobs Recruitment
$82M
Privacypop
Wellness Beauty
MealPal
Food
$80M
Portfolio founders

Where Haystack’s portfolio founders come from.

167 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 States158
  2. Mexico3
  3. Canada2
  4. Hungary1
  5. Spain1
  6. United Kingdom1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University11
  2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology9
  3. University of California, Berkeley9
  4. Harvard Business School8
  5. Harvard University7
  6. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania6
  7. Carnegie Mellon University5
  8. Yale University5
  9. Cornell University4
  10. University of Michigan4
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google11
  2. Microsoft10
  3. Meta6
  4. Uber6
  5. Amazon4
  6. Formlabs4
  7. LinkedIn4
  8. Bain & Company3
  9. Goldman Sachs3
  10. McKinsey & Company3
How Haystack stacks up

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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.