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NFX

Venture capital firm · Founded 2015 · Active in 2026

NFX is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2015. The page below shows 28 Power Law outcomes from NFX's portfolio — 27 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Israel · Switzerland. NFX ranks #173 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

28 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #173 · Global · 28 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 42% 5y
27
Decacorns ↓ 75% 5y
1
Thoroughbreds ↑ 38% 5y
19
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 28 NFX 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
  2. Israel2
  3. Switzerland1
  4. Australia1
  5. Liechtenstein1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  2. Fintech7
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences3
  4. Health Tech & Medtech2
  5. Space2
  6. Food1
  7. Marketing1
  8. Cybersecurity1
  9. AI1
  10. Transportation1
  11. Other B2B Software1
  12. Edtech1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+18
  2. Series A4
  3. Seed5
Estimated holdings

NFX’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of NFX’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where NFX is a named shareholder, worth about $285M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 EvenUpFintech · Unicorn 8.5% $2.0B $170M
  2. 2 Mammoth BiosciencesHealth · Unicorn 11.5% $1.0B $115M

Estimated value = NFX’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 →

NFX’s biggest exits.

NFX 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.

$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $67.6B
$24.3B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $4.8B
$15.0B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $986M
$5.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $840M
$3.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.5B
$372M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $3.7B
buyout · 2011
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$535M IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $2.8B
$1.8B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $458M
$1.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $336M
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

NFX's 28 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
28 of 28 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does NFX stack up?

NFX 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.

96 founders across the 28 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Tel Aviv University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States46
Israel21
India5
Finland4
Greece3
Australia3
Taiwan3
United Kingdom2
Iraq2
China2
+5 more →
UniversityCount
Tel Aviv University10
Stanford University10
Stanford University Graduate School of Business7
Purdue University4
University of Michigan3
Berkeley3
University of Toronto2
Reichman University2
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem2
University of Cambridge2
+33 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google5
Meta5
Evoke3
Apple2
Microsoft2
SpaceX | xAI2
Aconex1
Trulia1
Rappi1
Presto Phoenix1
+20 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about NFX

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about NFX 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 NFX

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning NFX — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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