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Felicis
Venture capital firm · Founded 2006 · Active in 2026
Felicis was founded in 2006 in Menlo Park by Aydin Senkut, an early Google product manager. The thesis is "iconoclasts welcome" — sector-agnostic bets on contrarian founders across consumer, enterprise, and frontier categories.
Notable bets include Adyen (Series A), Shopify, Canva, Notion, and Mercor. Felicis manages over $3B AUM.
Felicis’ biggest exits.
Felicis 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.
+1 more $1B+ exits on the full Dealroom profile.
The 73 Felicis 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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USA63
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Australia2
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Singapore1
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Netherlands1
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Finland1
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Ireland1
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Germany1
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Japan1
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UK1
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Canada1
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AI14
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Other B2B Software9
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Fintech9
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Other6
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Health Tech & Medtech6
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Biotech & Life Sciences5
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eCommerce & Marketplaces5
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Marketing4
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Cybersecurity4
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Transportation3
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Edtech3
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Space2
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Series B+29
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Series A22
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Seed20
Felicis’ biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Felicis’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 13 companies where Felicis is a named shareholder, worth about $4.6B in estimated equity value.
Showing the 12 largest of 13 disclosed direct holdings.
6 companies hidden on this public profile. Estimated value = Felicis’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Felicis also appears inside investor groups in ClassDojo, Notion, Plaid, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Felicis's 73 Power Law outcomes.
How does Felicis stack up?
Felicis 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 Felicis' portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
157 founders across the 73 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 Felicis.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Felicis
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Felicis 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 Felicis
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Felicis — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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