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QED Investors

Venture capital firm · Founded 2008 · Active in 2026

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33 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #123 · Global · 33 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 43% 5y
30
Decacorns ↑ 50% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 90% 5y
21

QED Investors is a venture capital firm based in USA, founded in 2008. The page below shows 33 Power Law outcomes from QED Investors's portfolio — 30 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · eCommerce & Marketplaces · Edtech; top portfolio geographies are USA · Brazil · UK. QED Investors ranks #123 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

Portfolio analysis

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

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

By countryCount
  1. USA17
  2. Brazil4
  3. UK4
  4. Mexico3
  5. Chile1
  6. India1
  7. Sweden1
  8. Nigeria1
  9. Ireland1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech27
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  3. Edtech1
  4. Marketing1
  5. Other B2B Software1
  6. Transportation1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+16
  2. Series A11
  3. Seed5
01 · Portfolio market map

QED Investors's 33 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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33 of 33 Power Law outcomes
02 · Founder talent

Where QED Investors's founders come from — and where they study.

51 founders across the 33 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Amazon are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States23
Brazil7
Venezuela5
India3
Nigeria2
Uzbekistan2
United Kingdom1
Mexico1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University Graduate School of Business4
Federal University of Minas Gerais2
University of Campinas2
University of Cambridge2
London Business School2
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business2
Whitworth University2
Harvard Business School2
The University of Chicago2
University of Virginia2
+19 more →
Origin companyCount
Amazon5
Alphabet | Google4
994
Enova International3
Groupon3
Microsoft3
XP Investimentos3
PayPal3
DiDi3
Alan2
+30 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 QED Investors.

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04 · Compare with peers

How does QED Investors stack up?

QED Investors 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 QED Investors

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about QED Investors 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 QED Investors

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