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Altos Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 1996 · Active in 2026

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16 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #350 · Global · 16 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 18% 5y
13
Decacorns ↓ 33% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 100% 5y
11
Featured in #350Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 2%

Altos Ventures is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 1996. The page below shows 16 Power Law outcomes from Altos Ventures's portfolio — 13 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · eCommerce & Marketplaces; top portfolio geographies are South Korea · USA · Malaysia. Altos ranks #350 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 16 Altos Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. South Korea7
  2. USA7
  3. Malaysia1
  4. Canada1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech4
  2. Other B2B Software4
  3. eCommerce & Marketplaces3
  4. Marketing2
  5. Transportation1
  6. Edtech1
  7. AI1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+7
  2. Series A6
  3. Seed2
01 · Portfolio market map

Altos's 16 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
16 of 16 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where Altos's founders come from — and where they study.

15 founders across the 16 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Saskatchewan and Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
South Korea5
Canada5
Belarus3
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UniversityCount
University of Saskatchewan2
University of Oxford2
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics1
Seoul National University1
Belarusian State University1
Chonbuk National University1
Hanyoung Foreign Language High School1
University of Canberra1
American School of Paris1
University of Hawaii at Manoa1
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Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google4
Meta2
Shareworks (formerly Solium Capital)1
Kakao Corp1
Fevo1
Uber1
Extreme Networks1
Avast1
EPAM Systems1
Citadel Securities1
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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.
03 · Key people

Key people at Altos.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Altos stack up?

Altos 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.

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Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns

Stage focus

Companies by entry stage and outcome tier

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors
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.

Sentiment on X

What X is saying about Altos Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Altos 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 Altos Ventures

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