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Scott Banister

Angel investor · Founded 2003 · Active in 2026

Scott Banister is an angel investor based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2003. The page below shows 20 Power Law outcomes from Scott Banister's portfolio — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA. Scott Banister ranks #88 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

20 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #88 · Global · 20 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 14% 5y
16
Decacorns ↓ 25% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 9% 5y
14
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 20 Scott Banister Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA20
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  2. Fintech5
  3. Other B2B Software3
  4. Other2
  5. AI1
  6. Cybersecurity1
  7. Transportation1
  8. Food1
  9. Space1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+3
  2. Series A4
  3. Seed9
04 · Portfolio market map

Scott Banister's 20 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
20 of 20 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Scott Banister stack up?

Scott Banister 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.

57 founders across the 20 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 States35
India6
China4
Germany3
South Africa2
Ukraine2
Russia1
Canada1
Poland1
Mexico1
+1 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University4
Berkeley3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Carnegie Mellon University3
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay2
University of Michigan2
University of Pennsylvania2
Harvard University2
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign2
UCLA2
+18 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google6
Yahoo!3
Apple2
Yelp2
Zynga1
PayPal1
Akamai1
Mozilla1
The Zebra1
Spark Networks1
+14 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.
07 · Key people

Key people at Scott Banister.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Scott Banister

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Scott Banister 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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