Investor profile

QED Investors

Venture Capital · Founded 2008 · Alexandria, United States

Website ↗LinkedIn ↗X / Twitter ↗Crunchbase ↗Dealroom ↗

Supports high-growth companies from seed stage to late stage

225 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $13B invested · 391 investments · Investor rank #208 · Last investment 7/2026

Portfolio companies ↑ 64% 5y

225

Decacorns ↑ 67% 5y

Thoroughbreds ↑ 9% 5y

Exits

QED Investors’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 QED Investors’s transaction record.

Nubank

$42B IPO · 2021

Entered Series ANow $66BFintech

TransUnion

IPO · 2015

Entered Series ANow $20BFintech

Quantinuum

acquisition · 2021

Entered Series B+Now $16BSemiconductors

Klarna

$15B IPO · 2025

Entered Series B+Now $4.5BFintech

Credit Karma

$7.0B acquisition · 2020

Entered Series AFintech

Remitly

$7.0B IPO · 2021

Entered Series ANow $4.5BFintech

AvidXchange

$4.9B IPO · 2021

Entered Series B+Now $1.7BFintech

GreenSky

$4.3B IPO · 2018

Entered Series ANow $781MFintech

Flywire

$3.5B IPO · 2021

Entered Series B+Now $1.9BFintech

Portfolio analysis

Where QED Investors's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 225 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

USA129
Brazil24
UK17
Mexico14
India7
Colombia5
Canada3
Germany3
Singapore3
Argentina2
Indonesia2
Ireland2

By sectorCount

Fintech151
Enterprise Software35
Marketing21
Real Estate17
Transportation11
Health7
Jobs Recruitment6
Education5
Energy4
Media4
Legal3
Security3

By stage enteredCount

Series A94
Seed73
Series B+57

By growth stageCount

Breakout Stage116
Late Growth72
Early Growth36
Mature1

Portfolio market map

Inside QED Investors's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 225 tracked.

Transportation · Unicorn

Semiconductors · Decacorn

Real Estate · Unicorn

Real Estate · Unicorn

Circeus | Shop Circle

Portfolio founders

Where QED Investors's portfolio founders come from.

199 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

United States76
United Kingdom27
Brazil22
Mexico13
India7
Australia6
Canada6
Germany4
Argentina3
Ireland3

UniversityCount

Harvard Business School15
Stanford University Graduate School of Business10
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania10
Stanford University8
Harvard University4
London Business School4
London School of Economics and Political Science4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
University of Oxford4
University of Virginia4

Previous companyCount

Boston Consulting Group9
McKinsey & Company8
Morgan Stanley7
JP Morgan6
Deutsche Bank5
Procter & Gamble5
Goldman Sachs4
ICICI Bank4
Accenture3
Alphabet | Google3

How QED Investors stacks up

Similar investors.

Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.

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Tiger Global

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#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio

Plug and Play

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Index Ventures

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#56 rank 675 companies $1.2T portfolio

Key people

Key people at QED Investors.

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.