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IA Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2010 · Active in 2026

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15 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #101 · Global · 15 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 25% 5y
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Decacorns → 0% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 62% 5y
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Featured in #101Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 1%

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 · Cybersecurity · AI; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK. IA Ventures ranks #101 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

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. Cybersecurity2
  3. AI2
  4. Health Tech & Medtech2
  5. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  6. Other B2B Software2
  7. Marketing1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+2
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed8
01 · Portfolio market map

IA Ventures's 15 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
15 of 15 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where IA Ventures's founders come from — and where they study.

26 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 States8
Sweden7
Estonia4
India3
Canada2
Netherlands1
Russia1
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UniversityCount
Chalmers University of Technology5
University of Tartu2
University of Waterloo2
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2
Tallinn University of Technology1
INSEAD Business School1
Harvard Medical School1
Harvard University1
Harvard Kennedy School1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology1
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Origin companyCount
PayPal3
Meta3
Alphabet | Google3
Microsoft2
Recursion Pharma1
Mixpanel1
Reify Health1
Skype1
Interactive Investor1
Nvidia1
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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.
03 · Key people

Key people at IA Ventures.

Brad Gillespie
Brad Gillespie
Managing Partner
Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.
04 · Compare with peers

How does IA Ventures stack up?

IA Ventures 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
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.

Sentiment on X

What X 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

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