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Lead Edge Capital
Venture capital firm · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026
Lead Edge Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2011. The page below shows 31 Power Law outcomes from Lead Edge Capital's portfolio — 23 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Marketing · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · France. Lead Edge ranks #496 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Lead Edge’s biggest exits.
Lead Edge 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.
Lead Edge’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of Lead Edge’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 4 companies where Lead Edge is a named shareholder, worth about $1.1B in estimated equity value.
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Grafana Labs
12%
$6.0B
$720M
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2
Guild Education
5%
$4.4B
$220M
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3
BlaBlaCar
6.5%
$2.0B
$130M
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4
ID.me
1.5%
$2.0B
$30M
Estimated value = Lead Edge’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Lead Edge also appears inside investor groups in Talkdesk, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 31 Lead Edge 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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USA26
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UK2
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France1
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Spain1
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Netherlands1
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Other B2B Software9
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Marketing4
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eCommerce & Marketplaces3
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Fintech3
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AI2
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Transportation2
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Cybersecurity2
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Edtech1
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Other1
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Energy1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Series B+22
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Series A5
Lead Edge's 31 Power Law outcomes.
How does Lead Edge stack up?
Lead Edge 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.
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 Lead Edge's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
67 founders across the 31 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 Lead Edge.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Lead Edge Capital
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Lead Edge 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 Lead Edge Capital
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Lead Edge — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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