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Highland Capital Partners

Venture capital firm · Founded 1987 · Active in 2026

Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1987. The page below shows 31 Power Law outcomes from Highland Capital Partners's portfolio — 23 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 5 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Cybersecurity · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada · UK. Highland Capital ranks #192 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

31 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #192 · Global · 31 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 10% 5y
23
Decacorns ↓ 100% 5y
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 19% 5y
22
01 · Exits

Sequoia’s biggest exits.

Sequoia 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 · 1999
Entered SeedNow $5.2T
IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $4.6T
IPO · 1980
Now $4.5T
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series ANow $207B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $103B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $69.1B
$93.9B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $58.4B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $67.6B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $64.4B
$60.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.0B
$55.5B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $55.5B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $49.6B
IPO · 2013
Now $45.0B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $39.4B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$32.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $28.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series ANow $28.2B
03 · Portfolio analysis

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

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

By countryCount
  1. USA23
  2. Canada2
  3. UK1
  4. China1
  5. France1
  6. Ireland1
  7. Brazil1
  8. Germany1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces9
  2. Cybersecurity5
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences3
  4. Other3
  5. Health Tech & Medtech3
  6. Fintech2
  7. Edtech1
  8. Marketing1
  9. Other B2B Software1
  10. Food1
  11. Transportation1
  12. AI1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+12
  2. Series A13
  3. Seed2
Estimated holdings

Highland Capital’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Highland Capital’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Highland Capital is a named shareholder, worth about $406M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Everly HealthHealth · Unicorn 8.5% $2.9B $246M
  2. 2 RapidSOSSecurity · Unicorn 8% $1.0B $80M
  3. 3 ClearcoMarketing · Unicorn 4% $2.0B $80M

Estimated value = Highland Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Highland Capital’s biggest exits.

Highland Capital 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.

$12.7B IPO · 2020
Entered SeedNow $1.2B
$4.9B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series A
$1.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $4.8B
$3.4B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series A
$1.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $1.9B
$1.5B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
$1.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $141M
$1.4B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series A
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $270M
$1.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $557M
$1.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
04 · Portfolio market map

Highland Capital's 31 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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05 · Power Law comparison

How does Highland Capital stack up?

Highland Capital in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 609 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
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond Unicorns — how the portfolio compounds

% of each investor's unicorn portfolio that later crossed $10B, $25B and $50B. Pick a sort tier and entry stage.
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Entry stage
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 Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

60 founders across the 31 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. ETH Zurich and Optiv are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States34
Germany7
Canada5
Spain4
China3
Switzerland1
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UniversityCount
ETH Zurich7
Stanford University3
Harvard Business School3
Queen's University2
University of Waterloo2
University of Heidelberg2
University of Pennsylvania2
Columbia University2
Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
Stevenson University2
+25 more →
Origin companyCount
Optiv2
Microsoft2
Apple2
Endeca2
Meta2
TechTarget1
MyOptique Group1
VeriSign1
Intuitive Surgical1
freelancer.com1
+10 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.
07 · Key people

Key people at Highland Capital.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Highland Capital Partners

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Highland Capital 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 Highland Capital Partners

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