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Marc Benioff

Angel investor · Active in 2026

Marc Benioff is an angel investor based in USA. The page below shows 33 Power Law outcomes from Marc Benioff's portfolio — 24 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Cybersecurity · Health Tech & Medtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Finland. Marc Benioff ranks #164 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

33 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #164 · Global · 33 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 33% 5y
24
Decacorns → 0% 5y
2
Thoroughbreds ↑ 88% 5y
16
01 · Exits

Marc Benioff’s biggest exits.

Marc Benioff 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.

IPO · 2004
Entered Series ANow $155B
$8.0B IPO · 2021
Entered Series ANow $9.9B
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.0B
$2.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $42M
$1.4B IPO · 2018
Entered Series ANow $1.4B
$1.2B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series B+
$1.1B IPO · 2023
Entered Series B+Now $586M
$1.1B acquisition · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $79M
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 33 Marc Benioff Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA32
  2. Finland1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech8
  2. Cybersecurity5
  3. Health Tech & Medtech4
  4. AI3
  5. Marketing3
  6. Energy2
  7. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  8. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  9. Other B2B Software1
  10. Space1
  11. Transportation1
  12. Food1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+12
  2. Series A9
  3. Seed5
Estimated holdings

Marc Benioff’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Marc Benioff’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Marc Benioff is a named shareholder, worth about $34M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 ForwardHealth · Unicorn 3% $1.1B $34M

Estimated value = Marc Benioff’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Marc Benioff also appears inside investor groups in AgentSync, Calm Health, Illumio, MobileCoin, SandboxAQ, You.com, webAI, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Marc Benioff's 33 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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33 of 33 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Marc Benioff stack up?

Marc Benioff 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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Entry stage
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 Marc Benioff's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.

69 founders across the 33 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 States34
Finland8
United Kingdom4
Russia3
China3
Germany3
India3
France3
Pakistan3
Taiwan2
+2 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University6
University of Oulu4
Dartmouth College3
University of Southern California3
University of Michigan3
University of Minnesota Twin Cities2
Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
Columbia University2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology2
Columbia Business School2
+26 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google12
Amazon3
Apple3
Salesforce3
Meta3
Rubicon2
LinkedIn2
Digital Turbine2
Uber2
Microsoft2
+31 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 Marc Benioff.

Senior investment team at Marc Benioff has not been published on this profile yet.
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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Marc Benioff

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Marc Benioff 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 Marc Benioff

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