Ulu Ventures
Venture Capital · Founded 2008 · Palo Alto, United States
Ulu Ventures’ biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Ulu Ventures still holds — unicorns and thoroughbreds it has backed, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead.
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BetterUP
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$4.7B
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Guild Education
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$4.4B
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Everlaw
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$2.0B
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Zum
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$1.7B
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5
HomeLight
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$1.7B
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Estimated value = Ulu Ventures’ 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 →
Ulu Ventures’ biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Ulu Ventures’ transaction record.
Where Ulu Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 173 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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USA228
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Mexico4
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India2
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Singapore2
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Philippines1
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Portugal1
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UK1
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Fintech47
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Health34
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Enterprise Software30
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Education28
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Marketing18
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Energy14
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Jobs Recruitment13
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Food11
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Legal11
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Media9
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Security8
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Transportation7
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Seed125
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Series A34
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Series B+4
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Early Growth148
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Breakout Stage68
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Late Growth25
Inside Ulu Ventures’ portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 173 tracked.
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BaWhere Ulu Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.
157 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United States144
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United Kingdom2
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Argentina1
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British Indian Ocean Territory1
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Israel1
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Mexico1
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Netherlands1
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Peru1
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Singapore1
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Stanford University30
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business18
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University of California, Berkeley18
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Harvard University13
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Harvard Business School8
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UC Berkeley, Haas Business School5
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
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MIT Sloan School of Management4
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Princeton University4
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Stanford University Graduate School of Education3
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Stanford University14
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IBM6
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McKinsey & Company6
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Microsoft6
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Salesforce5
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business5
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Alphabet | Google4
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Bersin by Deloitte4
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Boston Consulting Group4
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ClearCarbon4
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.








Key people at Ulu Ventures.