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Slow Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026

Slow Ventures is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2011. The page below shows 33 Power Law outcomes from Slow Ventures's portfolio — 25 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Mexico. Slow Ventures ranks #69 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

33 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #69 · Global · 33 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 32% 5y
25
Decacorns ↓ 29% 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 77% 5y
24
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 33 Slow Ventures Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA32
  2. Mexico1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech8
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces7
  3. Health Tech & Medtech3
  4. AI3
  5. Marketing3
  6. Other3
  7. Cybersecurity2
  8. Other B2B Software2
  9. Transportation2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+11
  2. Series A10
  3. Seed7
Estimated holdings

Slow Ventures’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Slow Ventures’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Slow Ventures is a named shareholder, worth about $33M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Human InterestEnterprise Software · Unicorn 2.5% $1.3B $33M

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

Slow Ventures’ biggest exits.

Slow Ventures 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.

$32.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $67.5B
IPO · 2013
Entered Series B+Now $45.0B
IPO · 2011
Now $27.6B
$15.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $23.4B
$18.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.7B
$2.5B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $14.0B
$10.0B IPO · 2019
Now $10.7B
$9.2B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $9.1B
IPO · 2014
Now $5.1B
$4.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $543M
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$2.0B IPO · 2025
Now $1.3B
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

Slow Ventures's 33 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
33 of 33 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Slow Ventures stack up?

Slow Ventures 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.

101 founders across the 33 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 States60
United Kingdom4
Spain4
Greece3
Canada3
Taiwan3
India2
Iran2
Russia1
Germany1
+2 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University12
University of Texas at Austin9
Columbia University4
Yale University4
Harvard University4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
University of Cambridge3
Berkeley3
Brown University3
+28 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google12
Microsoft5
Meta4
Apple4
Yahoo!4
Uber3
Etsy3
Vrbo2
Quantenna Communications2
PayPal2
+31 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 Slow Ventures.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Slow Ventures

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

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