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StepStone Group

Private equity / VC · Founded 2007 · Active in 2026

StepStone Group is a private equity / vc based in USA, founded in 2007. The page below shows 38 Power Law outcomes from StepStone Group's portfolio — 30 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Cybersecurity · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · India. StepStone ranks #497 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

38 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #497 · Global · 38 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 400% 5y
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Decacorns → 5y
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Thoroughbreds ↑ 800% 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 38 StepStone 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. UK4
  3. India2
By sectorCount
  1. AI6
  2. Cybersecurity6
  3. Fintech5
  4. Energy4
  5. Other B2B Software3
  6. Edtech2
  7. Marketing2
  8. Transportation2
  9. Biotech & Life Sciences2
  10. Other2
  11. Health Tech & Medtech2
  12. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+29
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed1
Estimated holdings

StepStone’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of StepStone’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 6 companies where StepStone is a named shareholder, worth about $923M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 ZeptoFood · Unicorn 5.5% $7.0B $385M
  2. 2 FilevineEnterprise Software · Unicorn 9.5% $3.0B $285M
  3. 3 Maven ClinicHealth · Unicorn 6.5% $1.7B $110M
  4. 4 MultiverseJobs Recruitment · Unicorn 2.53% $2.1B $53M
  5. 5 Chaos IndustriesRobotics · Unicorn 1% $4.5B $45M
  6. 6 TuringJobs Recruitment · Unicorn 2% $2.2B $44M

Estimated value = StepStone’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. StepStone also appears inside investor groups in Blockdaemon, Dremio, Epirus, KoBold Metals, Monzo Bank, Stash, Tebra, Temporal, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

StepStone’s biggest exits.

StepStone 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.

$19.0B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $19.0B
$3.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $1.3B
04 · Portfolio market map

StepStone's 38 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
38 of 38 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does StepStone stack up?

StepStone 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.

109 founders across the 38 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 States44
United Kingdom9
Romania8
India8
China6
Russia6
Israel5
Hungary4
Germany4
Ukraine3
+5 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University13
Georgia Institute of Technology7
University of Toronto4
EPFL Swiss Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne4
Carnegie Mellon University3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology2
Eötvös Loránd University2
Politehnica University of Bucharest2
University of Bonn2
+41 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google11
Microsoft9
Google DeepMind6
OpenAI3
Starling Bank3
SimilarWeb3
Yahoo!2
Uber2
Flipkart2
KiranaKart2
+36 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about StepStone Group

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about StepStone 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 StepStone Group

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

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