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IVP

Investment firm · Founded 1980 · Active in 2026

IVP is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 1980. The page below shows 114 Power Law outcomes from IVP's portfolio — 98 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 6 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Fintech · AI; top portfolio geographies are USA · Finland · France. IVP ranks #84 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

114 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #84 · Global · 114 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 20% 5y
98
Decacorns ↑ 20% 5y
24
Thoroughbreds ↑ 43% 5y
95
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 114 IVP Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA99
  2. Finland2
  3. France2
  4. UK2
  5. Indonesia2
  6. Israel1
  7. Australia1
  8. Türkiye1
  9. Germany1
  10. Ireland1
  11. Sweden1
  12. Estonia1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software25
  2. Fintech17
  3. AI15
  4. Marketing12
  5. Cybersecurity12
  6. Other8
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces8
  8. Health Tech & Medtech8
  9. Edtech4
  10. Transportation4
  11. Space1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+100
  2. Series A9
Estimated holdings

IVP’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of IVP’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 24 companies where IVP is a named shareholder, worth about $9.0B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 PerplexityEnterprise Software · Decacorn 9.5% $20.0B $1.9B
  2. 2 WhoopHealth · Decacorn 7.5% $10.1B $758M
  3. 3 DiscordGaming · Decacorn 5% $15.0B $750M
  4. 4 GrammarlyEnterprise Software · Decacorn 5% $13.0B $650M
  5. 5 BaseTenEnterprise Software · Unicorn 12% $5.0B $600M
  6. 6 AivenSecurity · Unicorn 16% $3.0B $480M
  7. 7 8.5% $5.3B $450M
  8. 8 8% $5.5B $440M
  9. 9 12% $3.5B $420M
  10. 10 9.5% $4.1B $390M
  11. 11 10.5% $3.0B $315M
  12. 12 11.5% $2.5B $288M

Showing the 12 largest of 24 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = IVP’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. IVP also appears inside investor groups in Aledade, Checkr, ClickHouse, Glean, Kalshi, Lyra Health, Skydio, Sorare and 2 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

IVP’s biggest exits.

IVP 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 · 2002
Entered Series B+Now $375B
$6.6B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $164B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $153B
$7.8B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $75.7B
$73.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $46.0B
IPO · 2006
Entered Series B+Now $70.0B
$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $67.5B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $45.0B
$27.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.3B
IPO · 1999
Now $26.3B
$15.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $23.4B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $21.6B
$8.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $18.1B
$17.6B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $10.4B
$16.0B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $10.9B
$15.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $10.0B
$14.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $7.1B
$12.4B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $13.2B
IPO · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $12.7B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $11.7B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $10.2B
$8.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $9.9B
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $9.1B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $7.5B

+27 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

IVP's 114 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
114 of 114 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does IVP stack up?

IVP 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.

266 founders across the 114 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.

LocationCount
United States145
India25
Türkiye7
Canada6
Estonia4
Israel4
Australia4
Russia3
Finland3
Denmark3
+16 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University11
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Harvard University8
Berkeley8
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi6
Brown University5
NYU Stern School of Business5
UC Berkeley, Haas Business School4
Harvard Business School4
+98 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google26
Microsoft21
Yahoo!9
Meta6
Peak5
eBay4
LinkedIn4
Amazon3
Splunk3
Apple2
+80 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 IVP

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

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

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