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Homebrew
Venture capital firm · Founded 2013 · Active in 2026
Homebrew is a venture capital firm based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2013. The page below shows 19 Power Law outcomes from Homebrew's portfolio — 18 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 0 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Transportation · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Japan · Colombia. Homebrew ranks #106 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Homebrew’s biggest exits.
Homebrew 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.
The 19 Homebrew 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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USA17
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Japan1
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Colombia1
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Fintech6
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Transportation3
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Health Tech & Medtech3
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eCommerce & Marketplaces2
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Other B2B Software2
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Robotics1
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Biotech & Life Sciences1
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Marketing1
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Series B+8
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Series A2
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Seed8
Homebrew’s biggest current holdings.
An estimate of Homebrew’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Homebrew is a named shareholder, worth about $610M in estimated equity value.
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Shield AI
4.8%
$12.7B
$610M
Estimated value = Homebrew’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Homebrew also appears inside investor groups in Carbon Health, Plaid, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
Homebrew's 19 Power Law outcomes.
How does Homebrew stack up?
Homebrew 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 Homebrew's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
54 founders across the 19 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 Homebrew.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Homebrew
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Homebrew 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 Homebrew
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Homebrew — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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