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K5 Global

Investment firm · Founded 2007 · Active in 2026

K5 Global is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 2007. The page below shows 29 Power Law outcomes from K5 Global's portfolio — 27 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · AI · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Australia. K5 Global ranks #489 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

29 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #489 · Global · 29 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 50% 5y
27
Decacorns ↑ 33% 5y
4
Thoroughbreds ↑ 91% 5y
22
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 29 K5 Global Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA25
  2. UK2
  3. Australia1
  4. Ireland1
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software9
  2. AI6
  3. Fintech3
  4. Transportation3
  5. Health Tech & Medtech2
  6. Space2
  7. Other2
  8. Cybersecurity2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+27
  2. Seed1
Estimated holdings

K5 Global’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of K5 Global’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where K5 Global is a named shareholder, worth about $30M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 SentryEnterprise Software · Unicorn 1% $3.0B $30M

Estimated value = K5 Global’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. K5 Global also appears inside investor groups in Grafana Labs, Higgsfield, Relativity, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

K5 Global’s biggest exits.

K5 Global 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.

$11.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $10.2B
$8.3B acquisition · 2024
Entered Series B+
$5.8B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $5.5B
$4.2B buyout · 2025
Entered Series B+
$3.0B acquisition · 2025
$1.1B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $642M
04 · Portfolio market map

K5 Global's 29 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
29 of 29 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does K5 Global stack up?

K5 Global 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.

103 founders across the 29 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Harvard University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States31
India12
Germany9
Australia8
France6
China3
Israel3
Sweden3
Russia2
Romania2
+3 more →
UniversityCount
Harvard University4
Tsinghua University3
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management3
Savitribai Phule Pune University3
Berkeley3
UC Berkeley, Haas Business School3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
University of Kentucky3
University of Sydney2
Technion Israel Institute of Technology2
+49 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google11
LinkedIn5
Meta5
Microsoft4
Apple3
Yahoo!3
Sisense2
Lazada2
HorizonIQ2
Skello1
+32 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 K5 Global.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about K5 Global

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about K5 Global 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 K5 Global

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning K5 Global — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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