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Homebrew
Venture capital firm · Founded 2013 · Active in 2026
Homebrew is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2013. The page below shows 18 Power Law outcomes from Homebrew's portfolio — 18 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Health Tech & Medtech · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · Colombia. Homebrew ranks #106 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Homebrew’s biggest exits.
Homebrew 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.
Homebrew’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Homebrew’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Homebrew is a named shareholder, worth about $610M in estimated equity value.
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Shield AI
4.8%
$12.7B
$610M
Estimated value = Homebrew’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Homebrew also appears inside investor groups in Carbon Health, Plaid, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 18 Homebrew Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA17
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Colombia1
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Fintech7
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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Transportation2
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eCommerce & Marketplaces2
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Marketing1
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Robotics1
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Other B2B Software1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Series B+8
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Series A2
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Seed8
Homebrew's 18 Power Law outcomes.
How does Homebrew stack up?
Homebrew 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Homebrew's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
49 founders across the 18 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Homebrew.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Homebrew
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Homebrew 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 Homebrew
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Homebrew — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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