Investor profile

Lowercase Capital

Venture Capital · Founded 2010 · San Francisco, United States

Lowercase Capital provides capital and advisory services to start-ups and late-stage companies alike.

119 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $1.5B invested · 169 investments · Investor rank #2,018 · Last investment 11/2023

Portfolio companies 119 ↑ 8% 5y

Decacorns 2

Thoroughbreds 5

Power Law #359Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 2%

01 · Biggest holdings

Lowercase Capital’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Lowercase Capital still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value

1 AutomatticUnicorn · Telecom · USA — $7.5B —
2 HandshakeUnicorn · Education · USA — $3.5B —
3 Mark43Unicorn · Legal · USA — $1.0B —

Estimated value = Lowercase Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

02 · Exits

Lowercase Capital’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Lowercase Capital’s transaction record.

Uber

$82B IPO · 2019

Entered SeedNow $163BFood

Twilio

$2.0B IPO · 2016

Entered Series ANow $35BMarketing

Carbon Engineering

$1.1B acquisition · 2023

Entered Series AEnergy

03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Lowercase Capital’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 119 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA107
UK4
Canada3
Mexico2
Finland1
Germany1
Hong Kong1
Netherlands1

By sectorCount

Media28
Enterprise Software17
Marketing15
Telecom13
Food8
Education7
Fintech7
Home Living7
Transportation7
Jobs Recruitment6
Gaming4
Health4

By stage enteredCount

Seed65
Series A39
Series B+12

By growth stageCount

Early Growth65
Breakout Stage37
Late Growth18

04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Lowercase Capital’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 119 tracked.

Triller

Media

$380M

Handshake

Education · Unicorn

$3.5B

Tala

Fintech

$800M

Quirky

Home Living

$316M

MakeSpace

Telecom

$220M

Mosa Meat

Food

$256M

Common

Real Estate

$200M

Blue Bottle Coffee

Food

$280M

Kickstarter

Enterprise Software

$400M

NURX

Health

$268M

Brightwheel

Education

$600M

Pachama

Energy

$275M

Bellhops

Home Living

$126M

Wizeline

Mexico

$172M

Stensul

Marketing

$138M

Reserve

Food

$20M

OpenDNS

Security

$635M

Binti

Kids

$225M

Victorious

Media

$100M

Electric Imp

Telecom

$84M

StyleSeat

Wellness Beauty

$100M

Swipely

Fintech

$80M

Upserve

Food

$430M

Chartbeat

Enterprise Software

$28M

Floodbase

Fintech

$60M

Mobcrush

Gaming

$80M

Chewse

Food

$76M

Smash.gg

Sports

$44M

Tred

Transportation

$100M

DigitalGenius

Marketing

$73M

Kolors

Travel

$80M

Happy Returns

Enterprise Software

$44M

Backupify

Media

$36M

Comparably

Jobs Recruitment

$145M

Threadflip

Fashion

$52M

Next Games

Gaming

$72M

Hinge

Media

$25M

Dubsmash

Media

$40M

SkyDrop

Robotics

$64M

Joymode

Sports

$58M

VoiceOps

Dating

$45M

Gowalla

Fintech

$16M

Formspring

Media

$46M

Grove

Fintech

$32M

Gumroad

Education

$100M

MiSalud

Health

$32M

Embark Corporation

Education

younity

Music

$32M

Getable

Telecom

$30M

VHX

Media

$23M

Posterous

Media

$20M

Magic Square Productions

Transportation

Lumi

Food

$36M

Swipe Labs

Media

$26M

05 · Portfolio founders

Where Lowercase Capital’s portfolio founders come from.

100 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

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