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Tenaya Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2009 · Active in 2026

Tenaya Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2009. The page below shows 35 Power Law outcomes from Tenaya Capital's portfolio — 30 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 3 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other B2B Software · Marketing · Cybersecurity; top portfolio geographies are USA · China. Tenaya ranks #449 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

35 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #449 · Global · 35 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 3% 5y
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Decacorns ↓ 50% 5y
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Thoroughbreds ↑ 25% 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 35 Tenaya 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. China3
By sectorCount
  1. Other B2B Software7
  2. Marketing7
  3. Cybersecurity6
  4. Health Tech & Medtech3
  5. Fintech3
  6. Other2
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  8. Transportation1
  9. Food1
  10. AI1
  11. Energy1
  12. Edtech1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+32
  2. Series A3
Estimated holdings

Tenaya’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Tenaya’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 3 companies where Tenaya is a named shareholder, worth about $655M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 FireblocksFintech · Unicorn 4.5% $8.0B $360M
  2. 2 BianlifengFood · Unicorn 10.3% $1.6B $165M
  3. 3 DruvaEnterprise Software · Unicorn 6.5% $2.0B $130M

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

Tenaya’s biggest exits.

Tenaya 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.

$24.3B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $4.8B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $8.9B
$7.8B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series A
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $5.2B
IPO · 2014
Entered Series B+Now $5.1B
IPO · 2012
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$2.2B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $1.2B
$1.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $226M
$1.6B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $212M
$1.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
$1.3B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $157M
$1.0B acquisition · 2020
Entered Series B+
$1.0B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series B+
04 · Portfolio market map

Tenaya's 35 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
35 of 35 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Tenaya stack up?

Tenaya 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.

56 founders across the 35 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Technion Israel Institute of Technology and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States23
India14
Israel9
Taiwan2
France1
Italy1
China1
Canada1
Ukraine1
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UniversityCount
Technion Israel Institute of Technology3
Stanford University3
University of California, San Diego3
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay2
Tel Aviv University2
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev2
Cornell University2
University of California, Santa Barbara2
Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya1
University of Waterloo1
+26 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google3
Yahoo!2
Salesforce2
Castlight Health2
Riviera Partners1
Persistent Systems1
Informatica1
Akamai1
Presto Phoenix1
Pinterest1
+11 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 Tenaya.

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

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Tenaya Capital

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

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

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