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Scott Banister

Angel · San Francisco, United States

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114 portfolio companies Angel · $1.1B invested · 143 investments · Investor rank #2,669 · Last investment 3/2026
Portfolio companies 114 ↑ 9% 5y
Decacorns 4
Thoroughbreds 18 ↑ 6% 5y
Power Law #88Investor Ranking · Global · 2026 · Top 0.5%
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.

SpaceX | xAI
$2.7T IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $1.5TSpace
Uber
$82B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $150BFood
PayPal
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $51BFintech
Affirm
$15B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $31BFintech
Upstart
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $3.8BFintech
Niantic Labs
$3.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series AGaming
Postmates
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered SeedFood
Forge Global
$2.0B IPO · 2022
Entered SeedNow $576MFintech
Zappos
$1.2B acquisition · 2009
Entered Series B+Fashion
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. USA109
  2. Canada1
  3. Hong Kong1
  4. Israel1
  5. Italy1
  6. UK1
By sectorCount
  1. Enterprise Software28
  2. Fintech18
  3. Media15
  4. Telecom9
  5. Legal8
  6. Transportation7
  7. Food6
  8. Jobs Recruitment6
  9. Marketing6
  10. Security6
  11. Travel6
  12. Education5
By stage enteredCount
  1. Seed80
  2. Series A23
  3. Series B+11
By growth stageCount
  1. Early Growth60
  2. Breakout Stage29
  3. Late Growth24
  4. Mature1
Portfolio market map

Inside Scott Banister’s portfolio.

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

Uber
Food · Centicorn
$150B
SpaceX | xAI
Space · Gigacorn
$1.5T
Flexport
Transportation · Unicorn
$8.0B
Together
Enterprise Software · Unicorn
$8.3B
Affirm
Fintech · Decacorn
$31B
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
$51B
Sauce Labs
Enterprise Software
$200M
Upstart
Fintech · Unicorn
$3.8B
Practice Fusion
Health
$100M
Augmedix
Health
$116M
Zappos
Fashion
$928M
Forge
Jobs Recruitment
$140M
Plex
Media
$160M
Agari Data
Security
$88M
Osaro
Robotics
$120M
DuckDuckGo
Security
$236M
Moon Express
Robotics
$40M
Remind
Education
$160M
Cargomatic
Transportation
$140M
Serve Robotics
Robotics
$40M
LiveOps
Fintech
$112M
Superpower
Health
$432M
PullString
Enterprise Software
$54M
Chain
Fintech
$120M
Ownwell
Fintech
$120M
WideOrbit
Enterprise Software
$40M
Topsy Labs
Media
$21M
Twenty20
Media
$89M
Splitwise
Travel
$80M
Roomi
Real Estate
$44M
Nervana Systems
Semiconductors
$350M
TipTop Labs
Fintech
$92M
Popshop Live
Media
$100M
LeadGenius
Education
$12M
Toutapp
Telecom
$60M
M.io
Enterprise Software
$35M
Readyforce
USA
$8.0M
Barndoor AI
Security
$54M
PlayFab
Gaming
$12M
Legalpad
Legal
$40M
Artemis
Energy
$24M
Lenda
Fintech
$21M
Silversheet
Health
$20M
LiftIgniter
Marketing
$26M
Zivity
Media
$28M
PatternEx
Security
$31M
sendwithus
Energy
$20M
vidIQ
Telecom
$13M
Portfolio founders

Where Scott Banister’s portfolio founders come from.

136 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 States109
  2. Argentina5
  3. Hong Kong5
  4. United Kingdom3
  5. Canada2
  6. Estonia2
  7. France2
  8. Bangladesh1
  9. India1
  10. Ireland1
UniversityCount
  1. University of California, Berkeley9
  2. Stanford University8
  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology5
  4. Harvard University4
  5. Yale University4
  6. Carnegie Mellon University3
  7. Cornell University3
  8. New York University3
  9. Syracuse University3
  10. UC Berkeley, Haas Business School3
Previous companyCount
  1. Alphabet | Google5
  2. Apple3
  3. Cognitive Security3
  4. Stanford University3
  5. Uber3
  6. Yahoo!3
  7. Cisco2
  8. Deliv2
  9. Hewlett Packard Pathfinder2
  10. HP Enterprise2
How Scott Banister stacks up

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

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Khosla Ventures
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#53 rank 854 companies $1.9T portfolio
Tiger Global
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#18 rank 811 companies $3.9T portfolio
Sequoia
Venture Capital · Menlo Park
#3 rank 1,919 companies $22T portfolio
500 Global
Venture Capital · Palo Alto
#430 rank 2,321 companies $289B portfolio
Figures on this page are sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API, joined with Dealroom’s cap-table dataset (estimated holdings) and the Power Law Investor Ranking. News in “Featured in” is drawn from Dealroom’s own coverage — the stories that name this investor, not only those it is the subject of. Market sentiment is omitted until the API exposes it.