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HongShan

Venture capital firm · Founded 2005 · Active in 2026

HongShan is a venture capital firm based in China, founded in 2005. The page below shows 157 Power Law outcomes from HongShan's portfolio — 143 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Transportation · Fintech · AI; top portfolio geographies are China · USA · Hong Kong. HongShan ranks #45 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

157 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #45 · Global · 157 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 23% 5y
143
Decacorns → 0% 5y
20
Thoroughbreds ↑ 41% 5y
73
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 157 HongShan Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. China118
  2. USA15
  3. Hong Kong9
  4. Singapore5
  5. Australia2
  6. Germany2
  7. South Korea2
  8. Nigeria1
  9. Seychelles1
  10. UK1
  11. Indonesia1
By sectorCount
  1. Transportation27
  2. Fintech18
  3. AI18
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces17
  5. Other15
  6. Biotech & Life Sciences13
  7. Robotics11
  8. Other B2B Software10
  9. Edtech8
  10. Health Tech & Medtech6
  11. Food5
  12. Marketing3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+119
  2. Series A21
  3. Seed5
Estimated holdings

HongShan’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of HongShan’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 19 companies where HongShan is a named shareholder, worth about $67.2B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 ByteDanceTelecom · Centicorn 10% $550B $55.0B
  2. 2 SHEINFashion · Decacorn 14% $40.0B $5.6B
  3. 3 RedNoteMedia · Decacorn 6% $31.0B $1.9B
  4. 4 Genki ForestFood · Decacorn 8.5% $15.0B $1.3B
  5. 5 ZuoyebangEducation · Decacorn 9.5% $10.0B $950M
  6. 6 AirwallexFintech · Unicorn 9.5% $8.0B $760M
  7. 7 15.8% $2.3B $368M
  8. 8 4% $7.0B $280M
  9. 9 11.5% $1.6B $184M
  10. 10 10.5% $1.5B $158M
  11. 11 9.5% $1.5B $142M
  12. 12 9% $1.5B $135M

Showing the 12 largest of 19 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = HongShan’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. HongShan also appears inside investor groups in Amber Group, CertiK, Genspark, Guazi, HeyTea, JollyChic, Klook, LaLaMove and 9 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

HongShan’s biggest exits.

HongShan 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 · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $306B
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $49.6B
$39.8B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $44.0B
IPO · 2014
Now $28.6B
$24.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $6.0B
$676M IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $22.0B
$2.1B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $15.1B
IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $14.6B
$8.4B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $13.0B
$6.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $12.9B
$12.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.9B
$250M IPO · 2016
Now $12.1B
$9.5B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
$4.5B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $7.2B
$3.0B IPO · 2022
Entered Series B+Now $6.6B
$6.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $331M
$6.6B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $6.6B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $5.9B
$5.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
Cloopen
$5.1B IPO · 2021
Now $163M
$4.8B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $4.8B
$3.5B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $4.5B

+24 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

HongShan's 157 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
157 of 157 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does HongShan stack up?

HongShan 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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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.

212 founders across the 157 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Tsinghua University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
China144
United States13
United Kingdom8
Hong Kong6
Germany4
Australia3
New Zealand1
Taiwan1
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UniversityCount
Tsinghua University14
Stanford University8
Peking University5
Shanghai Jiaotong University4
Tongji University4
The Chinese University of Hong Kong3
Zhejiang University3
Carnegie Mellon University3
UCLA3
The University of Chicago3
+66 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft12
Alphabet | Google10
Baidu8
Tencent5
Yahoo!5
SAP3
Mollie3
Dianping3
Amazon3
Groupon3
+29 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 HongShan

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

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

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