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Scott Banister

Angel · San Francisco, United States

#88 Investor Ranking 2026 Top 0.5% of investors worldwide
114 Portfolio companies+9% in 5 years
17 Unicorns
4 Decacorns
143 Investments
Mar 2026 Last investment
01 · Biggest holdings

Scott Banister’s biggest current holdings.

The most valuable companies Scott Banister still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has no parsed shareholder register for Scott Banister, so the size of each stake isn’t shown.

#CompanyValuation
  1. 1 TogetherUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $8.3B
  2. 2 FlexportUnicorn · Transportation · USA $8.0B
  3. 3 CartaUnicorn · Legal · USA $7.4B
  4. 4 CheckrUnicorn · Legal · USA $4.6B
  5. 5 ThumbtackUnicorn · Real Estate · USA $3.2B
  6. 6 TuringUnicorn · Jobs Recruitment · USA $2.2B
  7. 7 Diamond FoundryUnicorn · Fashion · USA $1.8B
  8. 8 JUSTUnicorn · Food · USA $1.2B
  9. 9 DensityUnicorn · Enterprise Software · USA $1.1B
  10. 10 DuckDuckGoSecurity · USA $236M

Unicorns and thoroughbreds Scott Banister has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →

02 · Exits

Scott Banister’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 Scott Banister’s transaction record.

$2.7T IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.7TSpace
$82B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $163BFood
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $53BFintech
$15B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $32BFintech
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $3.8BFintech
$3.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series AGaming
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered SeedFood
$2.0B IPO · 2022
Entered SeedNow $576MFintech
$1.2B acquisition · 2009
Entered Series B+Fashion
03 · Portfolio analysis

Where Scott Banister’s portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 114 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount
  1. USA135
  2. Canada1
  3. Hong Kong1
  4. India1
  5. Israel1
  6. Italy1
  7. Sweden1
  8. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software34
  2. Fintech23
  3. Media17
  4. Transportation14
  5. Telecom12
  6. Legal10
  7. Health9
  8. Security8
  9. Marketing7
  10. Food6
  11. Jobs Recruitment6
  12. Travel6
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed80
  2. Series A23
  3. Series B+11
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth72
  2. Breakout Stage42
  3. Late Growth28
  4. Mature1
04 · Portfolio market map

Inside Scott Banister’s portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 114 tracked.

Uber
Food · Centicorn
$163B
SpaceX | xAI
Space · Gigacorn
$1.7T
Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
Together
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$8.3B
Affirm
Fintech · Decacorn
$32B
Diamond Foundry
Fashion · Unicorn
$1.8B
Carta
Legal · Unicorn
$7.4B
Postmates
Food · Unicorn
$2.6B
Niantic Labs
Gaming · Unicorn
$3.5B
Thumbtack
Real Estate · Unicorn
$3.2B
Checkr
Legal · Unicorn
$4.6B
ClassPass
Wellness Beauty · Unicorn
$1.0B
JUST
Food · Unicorn
$1.2B
Forge Global
Fintech
$576M
EVERY
Food
$875M
Turing
Jobs Recruitment · Unicorn
$2.2B
Density
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$1.1B
PayPal
Fintech · Decacorn
$53B
AtoB
Fintech
$388M
Sauce Labs
Enterprise Software
$200M
Upstart
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.8B
Matternet
Robotics
$225M
Practice Fusion
Health
$100M
Augmedix
Health
$116M
Zappos
Fashion
$928M
Forge
Jobs Recruitment
$140M
Plex
Media
$160M
Agari Data
Security
$88M
Levels
Health
$300M
Osaro
Robotics
$120M
soothe
Health
$124M
Slide
Media
$182M
Clear
Legal
$750M
DuckDuckGo
Security
$236M
Moon Express
Robotics
$40M
Bellhops
Home Living
$126M
Remind
Education
$160M
Cargomatic
Transportation
$140M
Justpoint
Legal
$180M
Serve Robotics
Robotics
$40M
LiveOps
Fintech
$112M
Superpower
Health
$432M
PullString
Enterprise Software
$54M
Chain
Fintech
$120M
YourMechanic
Telecom
$18M
Leeo
Security
$12M
Stellar Labs
Transportation
$105M
Ownwell
Fintech
$120M
WideOrbit
Enterprise Software
$40M
Topsy Labs
Media
$21M
Twenty20
Media
$89M
Splitwise
Travel
$80M
Arcee
Enterprise Software
$96M
Roomi
Real Estate
$44M
Roadster
Transportation
$360M
Nervana Systems
Semiconductors
$350M
TipTop Labs
Fintech
$92M
Popshop Live
Media
$100M
LeadGenius
Education
$12M
Toutapp
Telecom
$60M
05 · Portfolio founders

Where Scott Banister’s portfolio founders come from.

149 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
  1. United States126
  2. Hong Kong5
  3. Argentina4
  4. Canada2
  5. France2
  6. India2
  7. Bangladesh1
  8. Ireland1
  9. Switzerland1
  10. United Kingdom1
UniversityCount
  1. Stanford University9
  2. University of California, Berkeley9
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology6
  4. UC Berkeley, Haas Business School6
  5. Yale University5
  6. Carnegie Mellon University4
  7. Harvard University4
  8. Cornell University3
  9. New York University3
  10. Syracuse University3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google6
  2. Apple4
  3. Stanford University4
  4. Yahoo!4
  5. Cognitive Security3
  6. Uber3
  7. AOL UK2
  8. Cisco2
  9. Deliv2
  10. EY2