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Social Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2011 · Active in 2026

Social Capital is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, USA, founded in 2011. The page below shows 32 Power Law outcomes from Social Capital's portfolio — 24 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · Marketing; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Canada. Social Capital ranks #82 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

32 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #82 · Global · 32 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 26% 5y
24
Decacorns ↑ 100% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 80% 5y
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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 32 Social Capital Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA27
  2. UK2
  3. Canada1
  4. Indonesia1
  5. Brazil1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech8
  2. Other B2B Software5
  3. Marketing4
  4. Health Tech & Medtech3
  5. Edtech2
  6. AI2
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  8. Food2
  9. Energy1
  10. Other1
  11. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  12. Cybersecurity1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+7
  2. Series A10
  3. Seed8
Estimated holdings

Social Capital’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Social Capital’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 7 companies where Social Capital is a named shareholder, worth about $1.5B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 TeyaFintech · Unicorn 18% $2.4B $430M
  2. 2 CartaFintech · Unicorn 4.5% $7.4B $333M
  3. 3 Guild EducationEducation · Unicorn 6.5% $4.4B $286M
  4. 4 QuintoAndarReal Estate · Unicorn 3.2% $5.1B $163M
  5. 5 ClearcoMarketing · Unicorn 6% $2.0B $120M
  6. 6 Apollo.ioMarketing · Unicorn 6.5% $1.6B $104M
  7. 7 4.5% $1.1B $47M

1 company hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Social Capital’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Social Capital also appears inside investor groups in Solugen, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Social Capital’s biggest exits.

Social Capital 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.

$15.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $23.4B
$20.0B acquisition · 2025
Entered Seed
$8.7B IPO · 2021
Now $18.1B
$18.0B IPO · 2020
Now $4.7B
$6.8B IPO · 2025
Entered Series ANow $4.3B
$5.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
IPO · 2011
Now $2.7B
$2.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $1.3B
$2.0B IPO · 2021
Now $80M
$1.9B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series A
$1.5B acquisition · 2023
Entered Seed
$1.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $1.5B
$1.3B acquisition · 2021
Entered Seed
04 · Portfolio market map

Social Capital's 32 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
32 of 32 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Social Capital stack up?

Social Capital 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.

91 founders across the 32 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Yahoo! are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States44
Brazil12
South Africa10
Palestine6
Canada5
India2
Russia1
China1
United Kingdom1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University12
University of Oxford5
Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
Harvard Business School3
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania3
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign3
Berkeley3
Federal University of Minas Gerais2
University of Campinas2
New York University2
+36 more →
Origin companyCount
Yahoo!9
Meta7
Microsoft6
Alphabet | Google5
PayPal3
AVG2
Yammer2
Airbnb2
Yelp2
Juniper Networks2
+42 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 Social Capital.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Social Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Social Capital 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 Social Capital

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

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