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Baillie Gifford

Investment firm · Founded 1908 · Active in 2026

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104 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #126 · Global · 104 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 15% 5y
93
Decacorns ↓ 4% 5y
22
Thoroughbreds ↑ 67% 5y
74

Baillie Gifford is an investment firm based in UK, founded in 1908. The page below shows 104 Power Law outcomes from Baillie Gifford's portfolio — 93 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 · China. Baillie Gifford ranks #126 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

The 104 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. USA65
  2. Germany8
  3. China6
  4. UK6
  5. India6
  6. Australia1
  7. Colombia1
  8. Brazil1
  9. Sweden1
  10. Canada1
  11. Italy1
  12. Singapore1
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces20
  2. Transportation17
  3. Biotech & Life Sciences13
  4. Fintech9
  5. Other8
  6. Health Tech & Medtech7
  7. Other B2B Software6
  8. Cybersecurity5
  9. AI4
  10. Marketing4
  11. Space3
  12. Edtech3
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+94
  2. Series A2
01 · Portfolio market map

Baillie Gifford's 104 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
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02 · Founder talent

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

267 founders across the 104 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 States117
China27
Germany20
Colombia11
New Zealand10
India10
United Kingdom9
Canada6
Iran5
Estonia4
+14 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology10
Berkeley8
Tsinghua University7
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management6
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania6
Carnegie Mellon University6
University of Cambridge5
Brown University5
Cornell University5
+98 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google15
Microsoft10
OpenAI6
Amazon4
Baidu3
Meta3
Dianping3
Rent the Runway3
Tesla2
Castlight Health2
+48 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.
03 · Key people

Key people at Baillie Gifford.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does Baillie Gifford stack up?

Baillie Gifford 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 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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