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Qualcomm Ventures

Corporate venture · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026

Qualcomm Ventures is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 2000. The page below shows 61 Power Law outcomes from Qualcomm Ventures'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 Transportation · Other · AI; top portfolio geographies are USA · China · Brazil. Qualcomm ranks #95 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

61 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #95 · Global · 61 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 49% 5y
52
Decacorns ↑ 43% 5y
10
Thoroughbreds ↑ 58% 5y
36
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 61 Qualcomm Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA33
  2. China11
  3. Brazil5
  4. India3
  5. South Korea2
  6. UK2
  7. Israel1
  8. Finland1
  9. Ireland1
  10. France1
  11. Hong Kong1
By sectorCount
  1. Transportation17
  2. Other14
  3. AI8
  4. Cybersecurity7
  5. Other B2B Software3
  6. Fintech3
  7. Marketing2
  8. Health Tech & Medtech2
  9. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  10. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
  11. Energy1
  12. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+37
  2. Series A15
  3. Seed4
Estimated holdings

Qualcomm’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Qualcomm’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 9 companies where Qualcomm is a named shareholder, worth about $1.2B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 ZongmuTransportation · Decacorn 4.5% $11.4B $513M
  2. 2 SiFiveSemiconductors · Unicorn 6% $3.6B $219M
  3. 3 QuintoAndarReal Estate · Unicorn 4% $5.1B $204M
  4. 4 LoggiTransportation · Unicorn 4% $2.0B $80M
  5. 5 MindTickleMarketing · Unicorn 6% $1.2B $72M
  6. 6 NothingConsumer Electronics · Unicorn 4% $1.3B $52M
  7. 7 5% $1.0B $50M
  8. 8 2% $1.5B $30M
  9. 9 0.6% $1.4B $8M

3 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Qualcomm’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Qualcomm also appears inside investor groups in Figure, FourKites, Magic Leap, Plume, Toss, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Qualcomm’s biggest exits.

Qualcomm 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.

$54.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $84.4B
$4.4B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $75.8B
IPO · 2002
Entered Series B+Now $39.1B
$29.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series B+
$9.2B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $23.5B
$16M IPO · 2023
Entered Series B+Now $16.1B
$10.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.8B
$7.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $7.6B
$4.2B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $4.2B
$2.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $1.5B
$2.7B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $2.1B
$2.0B buyout · 2022
Entered Series A
$1.9B acquisition · 2022
Entered Series B+
acquisition · 2013
Now $1.6B
$1.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $781M
$230M IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
$1.3B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.3B
$41M IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $1.3B
$1.1B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series A
$1.0B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2016
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2018
Entered Seed
$1.0B acquisition · 2018
Entered Seed
04 · Portfolio market map

Qualcomm's 61 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
61 of 61 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Qualcomm stack up?

Qualcomm 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.

144 founders across the 61 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 States38
China30
India22
Brazil10
Israel8
United Kingdom6
New Zealand5
South Korea4
Canada2
France2
+4 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University9
Shanghai Jiaotong University6
University of Cambridge6
Berkeley5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
The Chinese University of Hong Kong4
Tel Aviv University4
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi3
Brandeis University3
Princeton University3
+47 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google12
Microsoft8
OpenAI6
Uber3
PubMatic3
Red Hat2
Quantenna Communications2
Quora2
SoFi2
Tencent1
+36 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 Qualcomm Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Qualcomm 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 Qualcomm Ventures

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

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