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SBVA

Venture capital firm · Founded 2000 · Active in 2026

SBVA is a venture capital firm based in South Korea, founded in 2000. The page below shows 19 Power Law outcomes from SBVA's portfolio — 18 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Marketing · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are South Korea · Indonesia · Singapore. SBVA ranks #476 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

19 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #476 · Global · 19 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
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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 19 SBVA Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. South Korea8
  2. Indonesia2
  3. Singapore2
  4. Malaysia1
  5. Nigeria1
  6. Mexico1
  7. Israel1
  8. Taiwan1
  9. France1
  10. China1
By sectorCount
  1. Marketing4
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  3. Transportation3
  4. Fintech3
  5. AI3
  6. Other B2B Software2
  7. Biotech & Life Sciences1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+11
  2. Series A6
  3. Seed2
Estimated holdings

SBVA’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of SBVA’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where SBVA is a named shareholder, worth about $130M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 TridgeFood · Unicorn 12% $733M $88M
  2. 2 OhouseReal Estate · Unicorn 3% $1.4B $42M

Estimated value = SBVA’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. SBVA also appears inside investor groups in Carro, Neolix, You.com, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

SBVA’s biggest exits.

SBVA 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.

$1.7B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series A
$1.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $131M
$366M IPO · 2022
Entered Series ANow $1.2B
$1.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $689M
$1.1B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

SBVA's 19 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
19 of 19 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does SBVA stack up?

SBVA 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.

27 founders across the 19 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Meta are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
South Korea17
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UniversityCount
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology12
Seoul National University6
University of Oxford2
Chonbuk National University1
Hanyoung Foreign Language High School1
American School of Paris1
University of California, Santa Cruz1
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Origin companyCount
Meta6
TMON3
Rocket Internet2
Akamai1
Uber1
Com2uS1
Gojek1
Microsoft1
Yahoo!1
Gett1
+6 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 SBVA

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

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

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