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IA Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026

IA Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York, USA, founded in 2010. The page below shows 15 Power Law outcomes from IA Ventures's portfolio — 15 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 · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK. IA Ventures ranks #101 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

15 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #101 · Global · 15 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 50% 5y
15
Decacorns → 0% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 62% 5y
13
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 15 IA Ventures Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA14
  2. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech4
  2. Health Tech & Medtech2
  3. Cybersecurity2
  4. AI2
  5. Other B2B Software2
  6. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  7. Marketing1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+2
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed8
Estimated holdings

IA Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of IA Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 4 companies where IA Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $662M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 DataRobotEnterprise Software · Unicorn 7.5% $6.3B $472M
  2. 2 VectraSecurity · Unicorn 6% $1.2B $72M
  3. 3 OctaneFintech · Unicorn 5.5% $1.3B $72M
  4. 4 HeadwayHealth · Unicorn 2% $2.3B $46M

Estimated value = IA Ventures’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 →

IA Ventures’ biggest exits.

IA Ventures 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.

$7.8B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $75.7B
$4.5B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $17.1B
$15.4B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $10.0B
$1.1B IPO · 2016
Entered SeedNow $9.5B
$1.9B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series A
$1.3B buyout · 2025
Entered Series A
$605M IPO · 2023
Entered Series ANow $1.1B
04 · Portfolio market map

IA Ventures's 15 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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05 · Power Law comparison

How does IA Ventures stack up?

IA Ventures 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.

33 founders across the 15 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Chalmers University of Technology and PayPal are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States15
Sweden7
Estonia4
India3
Canada2
Netherlands1
Russia1
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UniversityCount
Chalmers University of Technology5
University of Tartu2
University of Waterloo2
Pace University2
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2
Tallinn University of Technology1
INSEAD Business School1
Northeastern University1
New York University1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology1
+8 more →
Origin companyCount
PayPal3
Alphabet | Google3
Microsoft2
Meta2
Recursion Pharma1
Mixpanel1
Reify Health1
Skype1
Saba1
Interactive Investor1
+1 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 IA Ventures.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about IA Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about IA Ventures 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 IA Ventures

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

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