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Sound Ventures
Venture capital firm · Founded 2015 · Active in 2026
Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2015. The page below shows 32 Power Law outcomes from Sound Ventures's portfolio — 29 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · AI · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada · Germany. Sound ranks #156 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
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.
The 32 Sound Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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USA29
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Canada2
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Germany1
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Fintech9
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AI5
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Health Tech & Medtech4
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Cybersecurity4
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eCommerce & Marketplaces3
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Other B2B Software2
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Other2
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Marketing1
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Transportation1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Series B+19
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Series A6
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Seed5
Sound’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Sound’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Sound is a named shareholder, worth about $100M in estimated equity value.
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1
Calm Health
3.5%
$2.0B
$70M
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2
Stability AI
3%
$1.0B
$30M
Estimated value = Sound’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Sound also appears inside investor groups in 1Password, Acorns, Altruist, Capsule, Mark43, Misfits Market, You.com, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Sound’s biggest exits.
Sound 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.
Sound's 32 Power Law outcomes.
How does Sound stack up?
Sound 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.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond 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.Where Sequoia's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
114 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 Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Sound.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Sound Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Sound 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 Sound Ventures
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Sound — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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