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Headline

Venture capital firm · Founded 1998 · Active in 2026

Headline is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1998. The page below shows 31 Power Law outcomes from Headline's portfolio — 28 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · France · Germany. Headline ranks #387 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

31 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #387 · Global · 31 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 40% 5y
28
Decacorns → 0% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 79% 5y
25
01 · Exits

Headline’s biggest exits.

Headline 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 · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $5.7B
$4.9B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series B+
$3.2B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$3.0B buyout · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $759M
$2.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.6B
$1.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $1.4B
$1.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $1.7B
$1.0B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2022
Entered Series A
02 · Estimated holdings

Headline’s selected top holdings.

An estimate of Headline’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 5 companies where Headline is a named shareholder, worth about $197M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 StaffbaseEnterprise Software · Unicorn 9.5% $1.1B $104M
  2. 2 OwnerFood · Unicorn 6% $1.0B $60M
  3. 3 ZellerFintech · Unicorn 5% $647M $32M
  4. 4 NivodaFashion · Colt 0.19% $306M $581K
  5. 5 Copa90Media · Colt 34.28%

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 cap tables on Dealroom →

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 31 Headline Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA16
  2. France4
  3. Germany4
  4. Brazil2
  5. Japan1
  6. Israel1
  7. Colombia1
  8. UK1
  9. Australia1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech9
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  3. Other B2B Software6
  4. Marketing5
  5. Other2
  6. Cybersecurity1
  7. AI1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+26
  2. Series A5
04 · Portfolio market map

Headline's 31 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
31 of 31 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Headline stack up?

Headline in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
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 Headline's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

89 founders across the 31 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States20
Colombia11
Israel10
France7
Nigeria6
Germany5
India4
Ukraine3
Japan2
Vietnam2
+3 more →
UniversityCount
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem12
The University of the Andes3
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg3
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
École Polytechnique - IP Paris2
EBS University2
ESIC Business & Marketing School2
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2
University of Washington2
+45 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft10
Alphabet | Google7
Rocket Internet3
Telenav2
Groupon2
Klarna1
Airbus1
Jimdo1
Mobileye1
Tencent1
+23 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 Headline

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

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

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