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Baillie Gifford

Investment firm · Founded 1908 · Active in 2026

Baillie Gifford is an investment firm based in UK, founded in 1908. The page below shows 108 Power Law outcomes from Baillie Gifford's portfolio — 92 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Transportation · Biotech & Life Sciences; top portfolio geographies are USA · Germany · UK. Baillie Gifford ranks #126 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

108 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #126 · Global · 108 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 15% 5y
92
Decacorns ↓ 9% 5y
21
Thoroughbreds ↑ 48% 5y
73
01 · Exits

Baillie Gifford’s biggest exits.

Baillie Gifford 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.

$29.5B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $97.3B
$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $69.1B
$52.8B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $49.6B
$12.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $29.5B
$23.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.4B
$27.1B IPO · 2026
Now $27.1B
$24.3B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $4.8B
$24.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $6.0B
$15.4B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $10.0B
$6.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $12.9B
$12.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $5.9B
$11.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $12.7B
$5.3B IPO · 2021
Now $10.9B
$6.6B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $9.0B
$5.6B IPO · 2024
Entered Series B+Now $9.0B
$8.7B IPO · 2021
Now $301M
$4.5B IPO · 2024
Now $7.2B
$6.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $3.0B
$5.7B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $587M
$5.5B IPO · 2022
Entered Series B+Now $4.3B
$5.2B acquisition · 2026
Entered Series B+
$4.9B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series B+
IPO · 2016
Now $4.7B
$4.0B IPO · 2025
Entered Series B+Now $3.6B

+17 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.

03 · Portfolio analysis

The 108 Baillie Gifford Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA68
  2. Germany8
  3. UK7
  4. India6
  5. China6
  6. Singapore2
  7. Australia1
  8. Japan1
  9. Norway1
  10. Lithuania1
  11. Brazil1
  12. Portugal1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces20
  2. Transportation18
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences13
  4. Fintech10
  5. Other8
  6. Health Tech & Medtech7
  7. Other B2B Software7
  8. AI7
  9. Cybersecurity5
  10. Marketing4
  11. Edtech3
  12. Space2
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+93
  2. Series A2
Estimated holdings

Baillie Gifford’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Baillie Gifford’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 31 companies where Baillie Gifford is a named shareholder, worth about $69.9B in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 SpaceX | xAISpace · Gigacorn 4.5% $1.2T $56.2B
  2. 2 StripeFintech · Centicorn 3.5% $159B $5.6B
  3. 3 GopuffFood · Decacorn 3.5% $40.0B $1.4B
  4. 4 Bending SpoonsEnterprise Software · Decacorn 7.8% $11.0B $858M
  5. 5 ZiplineRobotics · Unicorn 9% $7.6B $684M
  6. 6 The Brandtech GroupMarketing · Unicorn 14% $4.0B $560M
  7. 7 7% $7.0B $490M
  8. 8 2.5% $13.0B $325M
  9. 9 6.5% $5.0B $325M
  10. 10 10% $3.2B $320M
  11. 11 4.5% $7.0B $315M
  12. 12 3.5% $9.0B $315M

Showing the 12 largest of 31 disclosed direct holdings.

6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Baillie Gifford’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Baillie Gifford also appears inside investor groups in Altruist, Anduril, Discord, Epic Games, Faire, Flix, Human Interest, Rappi and 5 more, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Baillie Gifford's 108 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
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05 · Power Law comparison

How does Baillie Gifford stack up?

Baillie Gifford 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.

Compare against

Share of new unicorns per year

% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicorns
Performance window All-time → 2026

Stage focus

Companies by selected outcome stage

Sector focus

Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectors

Beyond 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.
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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.
06 · Portfolio founders

Where Baillie Gifford's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

276 founders across the 108 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.

LocationCount
United States125
Germany35
China27
India13
New Zealand10
United Kingdom9
Canada7
Iran5
Sweden4
Romania3
+10 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University16
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Berkeley8
Tsinghua University7
Carnegie Mellon University7
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management6
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania6
Bocconi University5
University of Cambridge5
Brown University5
+98 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google18
Microsoft11
OpenAI6
Apple4
Amazon4
Baidu3
Groupon3
Meta3
Rocket Internet3
Home243
+47 more →
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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Baillie Gifford

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Baillie Gifford 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

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Latest news about Baillie Gifford

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