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Altimeter Capital
Venture capital firm · Founded 2008 · Active in 2026
Altimeter Capital is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2008. The page below shows 63 Power Law outcomes from Altimeter Capital's portfolio — 57 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Other B2B Software · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are USA · UK · Germany. Altimeter ranks #222 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Altimeter’s biggest exits.
Altimeter 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 63 Altimeter 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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USA51
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UK3
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Germany2
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India2
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Singapore1
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China1
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Brazil1
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Japan1
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Decentralised1
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AI16
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Other B2B Software13
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Fintech10
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Cybersecurity6
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eCommerce & Marketplaces5
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Marketing4
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Transportation2
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Energy2
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Health Tech & Medtech2
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Other1
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Robotics1
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Series B+53
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Series A3
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Seed1
Altimeter’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Altimeter’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 13 companies where Altimeter is a named shareholder, worth about $3.2B in estimated equity value.
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1
Cockroach Labs
10.5%
$5.0B
$525M
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2
ClickHouse
3.5%
$15.0B
$525M
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3
DataRobot
5.5%
$6.3B
$346M
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4
Parloa
11.5%
$3.0B
$345M
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5
Modern Treasury
14%
$2.0B
$280M
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6
Benchling
4%
$6.1B
$244M
- 7 4.2% $5.7B $239M
- 8 2.8% $7.2B $202M
- 9 2% $8.0B $160M
- 10 16% $1.0B $160M
- 11 2.5% $4.8B $120M
- 12 1.4% $3.4B $47M
Showing the 12 largest of 13 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Altimeter’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Altimeter also appears inside investor groups in Checkout.com, Deel, Loft, Personio, Ro Health, StockX, Udaan, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Altimeter's 63 Power Law outcomes.
How does Altimeter stack up?
Altimeter 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 Altimeter's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
228 founders across the 63 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Altimeter.
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Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Altimeter Capital
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Altimeter 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 Altimeter Capital
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