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Venture Capital · Founded 1998 · San Francisco, United States
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AI Europe 100: Europe has its own AI category leaders
Made by Headline · Jul 10, 2026
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Headline’s biggest current holdings.
Headline is a named shareholder in 5 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $197M in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 5 biggest are below; the 4 with a computable estimate are sized by it.
Staffbase
$104M
9.5% of $1.1B
Owner
$60M
6% of $1.0B
Zeller
$32M
5% of $647M
Nivoda
$581K
0.19% of $306M
Estimated value = Headline’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Headline also appears inside investor groups in Fetch Rewards, Sorare, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Headline’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 Headline’s transaction record.
Where Headline’s portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 146 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA129
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Brazil30
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Japan29
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Germany26
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China19
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UK18
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France17
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Israel7
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Singapore7
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Russia6
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Taiwan6
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Denmark5
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Enterprise Software101
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Fintech60
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Marketing42
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Media28
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Transportation22
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Health20
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Food14
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Gaming14
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Energy12
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Legal12
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Real Estate12
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Security11
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Series A66
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Seed44
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Series B+37
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Breakout Stage143
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Early Growth110
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Late Growth74
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Mature1
Inside Headline’s portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 146 tracked.
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BiWhere Headline’s portfolio founders come from.
200 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 States78
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Germany18
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France13
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Brazil10
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Denmark10
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United Kingdom10
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Japan9
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Israel6
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Austria5
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Netherlands5
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Harvard Business School5
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Stanford University5
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business5
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Technical University Munich5
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem5
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École Polytechnique - IP Paris4
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Getulio Vargas Foundation4
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
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Pontifical Catholic University of Chile4
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Copenhagen Business School3
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McKinsey & Company10
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Alphabet | Google9
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Bank of America4
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Goldman Sachs4
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IBM4
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Microsoft4
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Technical University Munich4
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BofA3
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BofA Securities3
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Citibank3
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Headline.
