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Lee Linden

Angel investor · Founded 2014 · Active in 2026

Lee Linden is an angel investor based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2014. The page below shows 23 Power Law outcomes from Lee Linden's portfolio — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA. Lee Linden ranks #92 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

23 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #92 · Global · 23 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 14% 5y
16
Decacorns → 0% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 100% 5y
14
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 23 Lee Linden Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA23
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech5
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces4
  3. Other B2B Software3
  4. Health Tech & Medtech3
  5. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  6. AI2
  7. Transportation2
  8. Edtech1
  9. Cybersecurity1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+2
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed10
04 · Portfolio market map

Lee Linden's 23 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
23 of 23 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Lee Linden stack up?

Lee Linden 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.

81 founders across the 23 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 States47
Palestine6
United Kingdom4
India4
Russia3
Canada3
Taiwan3
Morocco3
France3
Pakistan2
+3 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University11
University of California, San Diego6
University of Oxford5
Harvard University4
Dartmouth College3
University of Southern California3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
London School of Economics and Political Science2
University of Cambridge2
+26 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google12
Microsoft6
Yahoo!5
Digital Turbine2
Twitch2
Shopping.com2
Zillow2
Sift1
iRobot1
Pinterest1
+10 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 Lee Linden.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Lee Linden

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Lee Linden 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.

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