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NEA

Venture Capital · Founded 1977 · Menlo Park, United States

#8 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 0.1% of investors worldwide

A venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare

1,186 Portfolio companies+16% in 5 years
163 Unicorns
32 Decacorns
2,356 Investments
Aug 2026 Last investment
02 · Biggest holdings

NEA’s biggest current holdings.

NEA is a named shareholder in 17 companies. Dealroom estimates those stakes are worth about $5.7B in total — the disclosed percentage × each company’s latest valuation. The 12 biggest are below, each sized by that estimate.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 PlaidEnterprise Software · Unicorn 18.5% $8.0B $1.5B
  2. 2 DataRobotEnterprise Software · Unicorn 16% $6.3B $1.0B
  3. 3 WonderFood · Unicorn 10.5% $9.0B $945M
  4. 4 MasterClassEducation · Unicorn 14% $2.5B $350M
  5. 5 UniphoreTelecom · Unicorn 12.4% $2.5B $310M
  6. 6 HouzzHome Living · Unicorn 6% $4.0B $240M
  7. 7 22.8% $1.0B $228M
  8. 8 5.5% $4.0B $220M
  9. 9 9.5% $2.3B $218M
  10. 10 10% $2.0B $200M
  11. 11 7% $2.2B $154M
  12. 12 11% $1.0B $110M

Showing the 12 largest of 17 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = NEA’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. NEA also appears inside investor groups in Automation Anywhere, Branch, Chaos Industries, Clio, Collective Health, ElevenLabs, Forter, Genies and 4 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

03 · Exits

NEA’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 NEA’s transaction record.

$1.1B IPO · 2004
Now $188BMarketing
$82B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $163BFood
Vertex Pharmaceuticals
IPO · 1991
Entered Series ANow $120BHealth
$4.4B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $106BSecurity
$1.8B IPO · 2004
Entered Series B+Now $97BSemiconductors
$32B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $90BFintech
Synopsys
$230M IPO · 1992
Now $88BSecurity
$73B IPO · 2021
Now $14BTransportation
$2.6B IPO · 2006
Entered Series ANow $69BTelecom
$1.6B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $65BEnergy
Allergan
IPO · 2013
Now $64BHealth
Echo Global Logistics
IPO · 2009
Entered Series B+Now $55BTransportation
04 · Portfolio analysis

Where NEA’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 1,186 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA1,084
  2. India33
  3. China32
  4. UK30
  5. Canada18
  6. Germany12
  7. Switzerland7
  8. Israel6
  9. France5
  10. Netherlands5
  11. Denmark4
  12. Japan4
By sectorCount
  1. Health312
  2. Enterprise Software258
  3. Media107
  4. Fintech96
  5. Marketing85
  6. Telecom78
  7. Security77
  8. Energy48
  9. Transportation45
  10. Semiconductors44
  11. Education37
  12. Fashion31
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series A432
  2. Series B+430
  3. Seed226
By growth stageCount
  1. Breakout Stage505
  2. Late Growth459
  3. Early Growth272
  4. Mature42
05 · Portfolio market map

Inside NEA’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 1,186 tracked.

Databricks
Enterprise Software · Centicorn
$188B
DiDi
Transportation · Decacorn
$14B
Uber
Food · Centicorn
$163B
Robinhood
Fintech · Decacorn
$90B
ByteDance
Media · Centicorn
$550B
UNISOC
Telecom · Unicorn
$3.7B
Zuoyebang
Education · Decacorn
$10B
Wonder
Food · Unicorn
$9.0B
Resilience
Health · Unicorn
$2.5B
Snap
Media · Decacorn
$11B
Opendoor
Real Estate · Unicorn
$4.4B
Radiology Partners
Health · Unicorn
$3.3B
Perplexity
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$20B
FTX
Fintech
Clio
Legal · Unicorn
$5.0B
SMIC
Semiconductors · Decacorn
$97B
NeueHealth
Health
$60M
Intarcia Therapeutics
Health · Unicorn
$3.9B
Together
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$8.3B
Plaid
Fintech · Unicorn
$8.0B
TAE Technologies
Energy · Unicorn
$2.6B
World Labs
Robotics · Unicorn
$5.0B
Groupon
Marketing · Unicorn
$1.1B
Fisker
Transportation
DataRobot
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$6.3B
Chaos Industries
Security · Unicorn
$4.5B
Xaira Therapeutics
Health · Unicorn
$2.7B
Scopely
Gaming · Unicorn
$4.9B
Bloom Energy
Energy · Decacorn
$65B
Letgo
Fashion · Unicorn
$1.5B
Wheels Up
Travel
$826M
Tempus
Health · Decacorn
$10B
Uniphore
Telecom · Unicorn
$2.5B
23andMe
Health
$150M
Automation Anywhere
Hosting · Unicorn
$6.8B
GoodLeap
Real Estate · Decacorn
$12B
ElevenLabs
Media · Decacorn
$11B
Novast Laboratories
Health
$705M
Collective Health
Health · Unicorn
$1.5B
Branch
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$4.0B
Gossamer Bio
Health
$191M
Avenzo Therapeutics
Health
$240M
Myntra
Fashion
$580M
BuzzFeed
Media
$130M
MoonPay
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.4B
Houzz
Real Estate · Unicorn
$4.0B
Strive Health
Health · Unicorn
$1.8B
Greenlight
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.3B
CuspAI
Energy · Unicorn
$2.6B
Rubrik
Enterprise Software · Decacorn
$18B
Xpressbees
Transportation · Unicorn
$1.4B
Cardurion Pharmaceuticals
Health · Unicorn
$1.0B
Box
Security · Unicorn
$5.2B
Frontier Car Group
Transportation
$700M
Synthesia
Media · Unicorn
$4.0B
Forter
Security · Unicorn
$3.0B
DZS
Telecom
$19M
Goat
Fashion · Unicorn
$3.7B
Omio
Travel
$40M
Divvy
Fintech · Unicorn
$2.5B
06 · Portfolio founders

Where NEA’s portfolio founders come from.

192 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.

LocationCount
  1. United States132
  2. China11
  3. India11
  4. United Kingdom10
  5. Israel5
  6. Canada3
  7. Spain3
  8. Italy2
  9. Netherlands2
  10. Pakistan2
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University19
  2. University of California, Berkeley12
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology9
  4. Harvard Business School7
  5. Harvard University7
  6. Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
  7. University of Michigan4
  8. Caltech, California Institute of Technology3
  9. Carnegie Mellon University3
  10. Duke University3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google17
  2. Microsoft9
  3. IBM7
  4. Stanford University6
  5. Deloitte5
  6. Yahoo!5
  7. Bersin by Deloitte4
  8. DaVita4
  9. Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
  10. Meta4