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Highland Capital Partners

Venture Capital · Founded 1987 · Boston, United States

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Leading VC firm supporting great people build great companies

247 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $11B invested · 466 investments · Investor rank #258 · Last investment 2/2025
Portfolio companies ↑ 8% 5y
247
Decacorns
0
Thoroughbreds
23
Exits

Highland Capital Partners’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 Highland Capital Partners’s transaction record.

GoodRx
$13B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $1.4BHealth
Xometry
$1.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $5.6BSemiconductors
Scopely
$4.9B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series AGaming
Auris Health
$3.4B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series AHealth
Carbon Black
$1.3B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $1.9BSecurity
Ask Media Group
$1.6B IPO · 1999
Entered Series ANow $1.9BMedia
Gigamon
$230M IPO · 2013
Entered Series ANow $1.6BSecurity
Turbonomic
$1.5B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+Legal
Harry's
$1.4B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series AWellness Beauty
Rent the Runway
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $272MFashion
thredUP
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $856MFashion
Enjoy
acquisition · 2022
Entered Series B+Now $1.2BTransportation
Portfolio analysis

Where Highland Capital Partners's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 247 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA203
  2. UK12
  3. China10
  4. Canada5
  5. Brazil2
  6. France2
  7. Germany2
  8. Ireland2
  9. Cuba1
  10. Denmark1
  11. Finland1
  12. India1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software38
  2. Media35
  3. Health32
  4. Marketing26
  5. Security21
  6. Fintech20
  7. Telecom15
  8. Fashion12
  9. Transportation11
  10. Semiconductors8
  11. Education7
  12. Food7
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A110
  2. Series B+110
  3. Seed16
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage121
  2. Late Growth80
  3. Early Growth41
  4. Mature5
Portfolio market map

Inside Highland Capital Partners's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 247 tracked.

Scopely
Gaming · Unicorn
$4.9B
GetYourGuide
Travel · Unicorn
$2.0B
Auris Health
Health · Unicorn
$3.4B
Tuniu
Travel
YipitData
Fintech · Unicorn
$1.0B
RapidSOS
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Clearco
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.0B
Harry's
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$1.4B
Enjoy
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.2B
Rent the Runway
Fashion
$272M
Qumulo
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.2B
ZeroFOX
Security
$141M
Huntress
Security · Unicorn
$1.5B
Welltok
Health
$111M
Everly Health
Health · Unicorn
$2.9B
thredUP
Fashion
$856M
Eko
Health
$325M
Jerry Insurance
Fintech
$352M
Domino Data Lab
Enterprise Software
$400M
Shift Technologies
Transportation
Podimo
Media
$429M
Xometry
Semiconductors · Unicorn
$5.6B
Carbon Black
Security · Unicorn
$1.9B
Placemakr
Travel
$450M
Violin Memory
Semiconductors
$64M
vArmour
Security
$232M
Kyruus
Health
$210M
Malwarebytes
Security
$200M
Catalant
Jobs Recruitment
$140M
Vecna Robotics
Robotics
$325M
PA Semi
USA
$278M
PA Semi
Semiconductors
$144M
Bitwise
Fintech
$500M
Rethink Robotics
Robotics
$72M
NewVoiceMedia
Marketing
$350M
Coremetrics
Fintech
$240M
DFine
Health
$98M
Complete Genomics
Health
$118M
Photobox Group
Media
$528M
Amino Health
Wellness Beauty
$100M
Privalia
Fashion
$550M
Turbonomic
Legal · Unicorn
$1.5B
Telica
Telecom
$295M
Bromium
Security
$160M
Stellar Cyber
Security
$100M
picoChip
Semiconductors
$77M
Handy
Telecom
$200M
QD Vision
Fintech
$112M
Freshly
Food
$950M
CCTV Wireless
Security
$265M
ConcertoCare
Health
$420M
Hallow
Home Living
$200M
Supply Chain Connect
Marketing
MyOptique Group
Fashion
$154M
Unchained Capital
Fintech
$240M
Jaunt
Media
$260M
Jaunt VR
Media
$260M
Raindance Communications
Media
$110M
Virgin Pulse
Health
$368M
Pharmaca
Wellness Beauty
Portfolio founders

Where Highland Capital Partners's portfolio founders come from.

117 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 States86
  2. Denmark5
  3. Canada3
  4. China3
  5. Switzerland3
  6. United Kingdom3
  7. Argentina1
  8. Germany1
  9. Ireland1
  10. Israel1
UniversityCount
  1. Harvard University14
  2. Harvard Business School11
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  4. Stanford University5
  5. ETH Zurich4
  6. Cornell University3
  7. Queen's University3
  8. Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
  9. University of Pennsylvania3
  10. Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania3
Previous companyCount
  1. McKinsey & Company4
  2. Apple3
  3. Bridgewater Associates3
  4. Bain & Company2
  5. Blackstone2
  6. Booz Allen Hamilton2
  7. Charlesbank Capital Partners2
  8. Cisco2
  9. Citrix2
  10. Cognitive Security2
How Highland Capital Partners stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

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#3 rank 1,919 companies $23T portfolio
Intel Capital
Corporate Venture Fund · Santa Clara
#76 rank 983 companies $1.1T portfolio
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#54 rank 847 companies $1.9T portfolio
NEA
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#36 rank 1,184 companies $2.5T portfolio
Kleiner Perkins
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#51 rank 775 companies $8.4T portfolio
Index Ventures
Venture Capital · London
#56 rank 675 companies $1.2T portfolio
SV Angel
Venture Capital · San Francisco
#120 rank 984 companies $3.9T portfolio
Y Combinator
Accelerator · San Francisco
#64 rank 7,065 companies $1.9T portfolio
Key people

Key people at Highland Capital Partners.

Sean Dalton
Sean Dalton
Partner
 Seth Berry
Seth Berry
Managing Partner
 Andrew Miller
Andrew Miller
Partner
 Alex Taussig
Alex Taussig
Partner
 Andy Miller
Andy Miller
Partner
 Irena Goldenberg
Irena Goldenberg
General Partner
 Jo Tango
Jo Tango
General Partner
 Laurence Garrett
Laurence Garrett
General Partner
 Manish Patel
Manish Patel
Partner
 Peter Bell
Peter Bell
General Partner
 Richard de Silva
Richard de Silva
General Partner
 Sam Brooks
Sam Brooks
Partner
Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.
Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.