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Benjamin Ling

Angel investor · Active in 2026

Benjamin Ling is an angel investor based in USA. The page below shows 16 Power Law outcomes from Benjamin Ling's portfolio — 11 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Transportation · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA. Benjamin Ling ranks #223 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

16 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #223 · Global · 16 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 10% 5y
11
Decacorns ↑ 50% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 60% 5y
9
01 · Exits

Benjamin Ling’s biggest exits.

Benjamin Ling 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.

$24.3B IPO · 2019
Now $4.8B
$3.7B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $327M
$1.8B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $495M
03 · Portfolio analysis

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

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

By countryCount
  1. USA16
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech4
  2. Transportation3
  3. Other B2B Software2
  4. Marketing2
  5. Edtech2
  6. Cybersecurity1
  7. AI1
  8. eCommerce & Marketplaces1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+5
  2. Seed6
04 · Portfolio market map

Benjamin Ling's 16 Power Law outcomes.

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05 · Power Law comparison

How does Benjamin Ling stack up?

Benjamin Ling 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.

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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
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 Benjamin Ling's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

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

LocationCount
United States21
Canada6
Israel2
Germany2
Austria1
India1
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UniversityCount
University of Waterloo5
Stanford University4
Harvard University2
MIT Sloan School of Management2
Duke University School of Law2
University of California, Santa Barbara2
New York University2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
University of Toronto1
Goethe University1
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Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google7
Amazon4
Apple2
Stripe2
Microsoft2
Meta2
PayPal1
SpaceX | xAI1
LinkedIn1
X.1
+19 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.
07 · Key people

Key people at Benjamin Ling.

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Benjamin Ling

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