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Index Ventures
Venture capital firm · Founded 1996 · Active in 2026
Index Ventures was founded in Geneva in 1996 and now operates principally out of San Francisco and London. The firm is multi-stage and multi-vertical with an unusually trans-Atlantic posture: Index is often the first U.S.-based partner of European founders, and conversely the firm's London office leads many of its top European deals.
Notable bets include Skype, Adyen, Roblox, Discord, Figma, Wise, and Wiz.
Index Ventures’ biggest exits.
Index 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.
Index Ventures’ selected top holdings.
An estimate of Index Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 55 companies where Index Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $21.2B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 55 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Index Ventures’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Index Ventures also appears inside investor groups in Fireblocks, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+22 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 149 Index Ventures 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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USA87
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UK23
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France6
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Germany4
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Sweden4
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Australia3
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Finland2
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Switzerland2
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Denmark2
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Ireland2
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Netherlands2
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China2
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Fintech27
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Other B2B Software25
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AI22
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Marketing17
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eCommerce & Marketplaces16
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Other14
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Cybersecurity13
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Edtech4
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Biotech & Life Sciences3
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Transportation3
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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Space1
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Series B+81
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Series A45
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Seed21
Index Ventures's 149 Power Law outcomes.
How does Index Ventures stack up?
Index Ventures in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 34 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 Index Ventures's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
339 founders across the 149 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Index Ventures.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Index Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Index 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 Index Ventures
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Index Ventures — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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