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Perceptive Advisors

Investment firm · Founded 2018 · Active in 2026

Perceptive Advisors is an investment firm based in USA, founded in 2018. The page below shows 85 Power Law outcomes from Perceptive Advisors's portfolio — 52 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 5 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · Health Tech & Medtech · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · China. Perceptive Advisors ranks #367 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

85 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #367 · Global · 85 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 53% 5y
52
Decacorns ↑ 200% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 78% 5y
25
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 85 Perceptive Advisors Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA68
  2. UK5
  3. China2
  4. France2
  5. Canada2
  6. Netherlands1
  7. Germany1
  8. Switzerland1
  9. Israel1
  10. Denmark1
  11. Ireland1
By sectorCount
  1. Biotech & Life Sciences79
  2. Health Tech & Medtech5
  3. Transportation1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+53
  2. Series A2
Estimated holdings

Perceptive Advisors’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Perceptive Advisors’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Perceptive Advisors is a named shareholder, worth about $646M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 KindbodyHealth · Unicorn 23.5% $1.8B $423M
  2. 2 FreenomeHealth · Unicorn 10.5% $1.5B $158M
  3. 3 InsightecHealth · Unicorn 5% $1.3B $65M

Estimated value = Perceptive Advisors’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 →

Perceptive Advisors’ biggest exits.

Perceptive Advisors 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.

$2.0B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $15.1B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $13.1B
$630M IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $12.0B
$163M IPO · 2017
Now $10.0B
IPO · 2004
Entered Series B+Now $9.8B
$707M IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $8.2B
$7.6B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $4.0B
$7.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
$1.3B IPO · 2020
Now $6.9B
$130M IPO · 2016
Entered Series B+Now $5.6B
$350M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $5.0B
Travere Therapeutics
IPO · 2012
Now $4.2B
$4.1B IPO · 2023
Entered Series B+Now $3.7B
$433M IPO · 2019
Now $3.8B
$3.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $226M
$750M IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $3.3B
$840M IPO · 2021
Now $3.0B
$391M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $2.6B
$332M IPO · 2018
Now $2.3B
$1.7B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $2.3B
$2.2B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$365M IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $2.2B
$2.1B acquisition · 2022
Entered Series B+

+30 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Perceptive Advisors's 85 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
85 of 85 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Perceptive Advisors stack up?

Perceptive Advisors 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.

101 founders across the 85 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 States65
China5
Canada4
United Kingdom3
France3
Taiwan3
Greece1
Iran1
Germany1
Sweden1
+2 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University10
Harvard Business School4
University of Cambridge3
Harvard University3
Harvard Medical School3
Dartmouth College3
UCLA2
Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
Washington University in St. Louis2
Cornell University2
+35 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google5
Apple3
Rubicon2
Five Prime Therapeutics2
Onyx Pharmaceuticals2
Kadmon2
Blueprint Medicines2
Ablynx1
Forward Pharma1
Nektar Therapeutics1
+26 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 Perceptive Advisors

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Perceptive Advisors 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

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Latest news about Perceptive Advisors

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