NE
New Enterprise Associates
Venture capital firm · Founded 1977 · Active in 2026
NEA was founded in 1977 by Dick Kramlich, Frank Bonsal, and Charles Newhall — making it one of the longest-running venture capital firms in the United States. The firm runs a multi-stage, dual-track model across technology and healthcare, with offices in Menlo Park, San Francisco, New York, and Boston.
Notable bets include Salesforce, Workday, Robinhood, Cloudflare, Coursera, and Databricks.
NEA’s biggest exits.
NEA 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.
NEA’s selected top holdings.
An estimate of NEA’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 28 companies where NEA is a named shareholder, worth about $11.7B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 28 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 ElevenLabs, Kong, MindTickle, Together, Vast Data, Xpressbees, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
+53 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 182 NEA 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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USA150
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Canada8
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China7
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UK5
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India2
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Germany2
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Australia1
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Spain1
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Sweden1
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France1
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Türkiye1
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Switzerland1
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Biotech & Life Sciences41
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Other B2B Software25
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Other18
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AI18
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Cybersecurity17
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eCommerce & Marketplaces16
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Fintech12
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Marketing11
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Edtech7
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Health Tech & Medtech7
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Transportation5
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Robotics2
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Series B+92
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Series A58
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Seed24
NEA's 182 Power Law outcomes.
How does NEA stack up?
NEA in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 34 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 NEA's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
415 founders across the 182 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.
Key people at NEA.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about New Enterprise Associates
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about NEA 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 New Enterprise Associates
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning NEA — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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