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Versant Ventures
Venture capital firm · Founded 1999 · Active in 2026
Versant Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1999. The page below shows 27 Power Law outcomes from Versant Ventures's portfolio — 22 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 4 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Biotech & Life Sciences · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are USA · Switzerland · Ireland. Versant ranks #345 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Versant’s biggest exits.
Versant 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.
The 27 Versant 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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USA23
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Switzerland2
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Ireland1
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Canada1
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Biotech & Life Sciences26
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eCommerce & Marketplaces1
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Series B+8
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Series A17
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Seed1
Versant's 27 Power Law outcomes.
How does Versant stack up?
Versant 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.
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 selected outcome stageSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsBeyond 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.Where Versant's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
7 founders across the 27 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Harvard University and Five Prime Therapeutics are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Versant.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Versant Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Versant 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 Versant Ventures
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Versant — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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