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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 174 Power Law outcomes from Tencent's portfolio — 154 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.
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.
Tencent’s selected top 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.
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1
Epic Games
35%
$18.0B
$6.3B
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2
RedNote
13.5%
$31.0B
$4.2B
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3
Yuanfudao
17%
$15.5B
$2.6B
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4
Discord
7%
$15.0B
$1.1B
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5
Xingsheng Youxuan
14.5%
$6.0B
$870M
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6
Airwallex
10.5%
$8.0B
$840M
- 7 49.9% $1.5B $748M
- 8 12.3% $6.0B $738M
- 9 7.5% $9.0B $675M
- 10 9% $7.3B $657M
- 11 8.7% $6.8B $592M
- 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 →
+34 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 174 Tencent 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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China95
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USA23
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India10
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UK5
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Germany5
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Brazil3
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France3
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Indonesia3
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Hong Kong2
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Australia2
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Ireland2
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Finland2
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Other32
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Fintech28
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eCommerce & Marketplaces24
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Transportation18
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Other B2B Software17
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AI16
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Edtech12
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Biotech & Life Sciences7
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Health Tech & Medtech6
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Marketing5
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Food4
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Robotics3
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Series B+130
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Series A24
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Seed3
Tencent's 174 Power Law outcomes.
How does Tencent stack up?
Tencent in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 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 entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Tencent's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
267 founders across the 174 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.
Key people at Tencent.
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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