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Taavet Hinrikus

Angel investor · Active in 2026

Taavet Hinrikus is an angel investor based in UK. The page below shows 14 Power Law outcomes from Taavet Hinrikus's portfolio — 13 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 UK · USA · Estonia. Taavet Hinrikus ranks #249 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

14 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #249 · Global · 14 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 117% 5y
13
Decacorns → 5y
0
Thoroughbreds ↑ 400% 5y
12
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 14 Taavet Hinrikus Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. UK6
  2. USA5
  3. Estonia2
  4. France1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech6
  2. Other B2B Software2
  3. Marketing2
  4. AI2
  5. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
  6. Cybersecurity1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+8
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed4
Estimated holdings

Taavet Hinrikus’ biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Taavet Hinrikus’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 2 companies where Taavet Hinrikus is a named shareholder, worth about $35M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 CleoFintech · Unicorn 2.79% $1.0B $28M
  2. 2 PrimerFintech · Colt 1.22% $600M $7M

Estimated value = Taavet Hinrikus’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Taavet Hinrikus’ biggest exits.

Taavet Hinrikus 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.

$1.5B buyout · 2020
Entered Seed
04 · Portfolio market map

Taavet Hinrikus's 14 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
14 of 14 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Taavet Hinrikus stack up?

Taavet Hinrikus 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.

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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.

42 founders across the 14 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Tartu and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
Estonia11
Denmark7
Israel7
France6
United Kingdom3
Australia2
Germany2
United States2
Spain1
Lebanon1
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UniversityCount
University of Tartu5
Bar-Ilan University3
Stanford University3
Estonian Business School2
Copenhagen Business School2
INSEAD Business School2
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg2
Camera Obscura School for the Arts2
University of Greenwich2
The University of Tokyo1
+14 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google3
Microsoft3
Lazada2
Airbus2
Rocket Internet2
Skype2
Vonage2
Deliveroo2
Duda2
Groupon2
+17 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 Taavet Hinrikus.

Senior investment team at Taavet Hinrikus has not been published on this profile yet.
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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Taavet Hinrikus

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Taavet Hinrikus 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

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