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Tencent

Corporate venture · Founded 1998 · Active in 2026

Tencent is a corporate venture based in China, founded in 1998. The page below shows 180 Power Law outcomes from Tencent's portfolio — 157 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Other · Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are China · USA · India. Tencent ranks #43 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

180 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #43 · Global · 180 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 28% 5y
157
Decacorns ↓ 20% 5y
20
Thoroughbreds ↑ 36% 5y
83
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 180 Tencent Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. China101
  2. USA22
  3. India10
  4. Germany5
  5. UK5
  6. France3
  7. Singapore3
  8. Brazil3
  9. Indonesia3
  10. Finland2
  11. Canada2
  12. Australia2
By sectorCount
  1. Other32
  2. Fintech29
  3. eCommerce & Marketplaces24
  4. Transportation18
  5. AI17
  6. Other B2B Software17
  7. Edtech12
  8. Biotech & Life Sciences8
  9. Robotics6
  10. Health Tech & Medtech6
  11. Marketing5
  12. Food4
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+133
  2. Series A24
  3. Seed3
Estimated holdings

Tencent’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Tencent’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 47 companies where Tencent is a named shareholder, worth about $26.4B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 Epic GamesGaming · Decacorn 35% $18.0B $6.3B
  2. 2 RedNoteMedia · Decacorn 13.5% $31.0B $4.2B
  3. 3 YuanfudaoEducation · Decacorn 17% $15.5B $2.6B
  4. 4 DiscordGaming · Decacorn 7% $15.0B $1.1B
  5. 5 Xingsheng YouxuanFood · Unicorn 14.5% $6.0B $870M
  6. 6 AirwallexFintech · Unicorn 10.5% $8.0B $840M
  7. 7 49.9% $1.5B $748M
  8. 8 12.3% $6.0B $738M
  9. 9 7.5% $9.0B $675M
  10. 10 9% $7.3B $657M
  11. 11 8.7% $6.8B $592M
  12. 12 6% $9.3B $556M

Showing the 12 largest of 47 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Tencent’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Tencent also appears inside investor groups in ChangXin Memory Technologies, Dream11, Genspark, LaLaMove, Nowports, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

Tencent’s biggest exits.

Tencent 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 · 2010
Now $1.6T
$214B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $20.1B
$82.0B IPO · 2019
Now $153B
$24.0B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $73.3B
$73.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $13.9B
$41.5B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $64.4B
$45.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $33.1B
$27.1B IPO · 2026
Entered Series B+Now $27.1B
$27.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $4.3B
acquisition · 2006
Entered Series B+Now $24.5B
$24.3B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $4.8B
$24.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $6.0B
$19.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $7.9B
$6.5B IPO · 2020
Now $16.0B
$16.0B IPO · 2017
Entered Series B+Now $10.9B
$2.1B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $15.1B
$125M IPO · 2016
Now $13.0B
$6.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $12.9B
$1.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series ANow $12.6B
$12.0B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $8.4B
$5.3B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $10.9B
$9.5B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2013
Now $8.7B
$8.2B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $8.2B

+35 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

04 · Portfolio market map

Tencent's 180 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
180 of 180 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Tencent stack up?

Tencent 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.

252 founders across the 180 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Tsinghua University and Microsoft are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
China97
Germany16
United States14
Italy13
United Kingdom12
India12
Austria11
Indonesia10
France9
Canada7
+13 more →
UniversityCount
Tsinghua University10
University of New South Wales4
University of Turin4
University of St.Gallen4
Harvard University4
Harvard Kennedy School4
University of Southern California4
Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
Sabanci University3
Technical University Munich3
+107 more →
Origin companyCount
Microsoft13
Alphabet | Google11
Baidu5
Tencent4
Flipkart4
Sohu.com3
Rocket Internet3
Starling Bank3
Gojek2
Alibaba2
+62 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 Tencent

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Tencent 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 Tencent

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

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