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Real Ventures

Venture capital firm · Founded 2007 · Active in 2026

Real Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Canada, founded in 2007. The page below shows 10 Power Law outcomes from Real Ventures's portfolio — 7 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 · AI; top portfolio geographies are Canada · USA · Australia. Real ranks #322 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

10 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #322 · Global · 10 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 75% 5y
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Decacorns → 0% 5y
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Thoroughbreds ↑ 100% 5y
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01 · Exits

Real’s biggest exits.

Real 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.

$95.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $69.1B
$3.6B IPO · 2025
Entered SeedNow $3.6B
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 10 Real Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. Canada7
  2. USA2
  3. Australia1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech2
  2. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  3. AI2
  4. Edtech1
  5. Health Tech & Medtech1
  6. Other1
  7. Robotics1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+1
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed5
Estimated holdings

Real’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Real’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Real is a named shareholder, worth about $117M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 TenstorrentSemiconductors · Unicorn 4.5% $2.6B $117M

Estimated value = Real’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Real also appears inside investor groups in Onefootball, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Real's 10 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
10 of 10 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Real stack up?

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

19 founders across the 10 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Toronto and Hybris are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States11
Serbia3
Canada2
Spain1
Belgium1
United Kingdom1
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UniversityCount
University of Toronto2
Rhode Island School of Design2
KU Leuven1
University of Exeter1
Stanford University1
MIT Sloan Executive Education1
Brown University1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology1
Harvard University1
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Origin companyCount
Hybris2
Microsoft2
WorkOS2
Practice Ignition1
Abrigo1
PayPal1
Deputy1
Apple1
Nextdoor1
Twitch1
+1 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.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Real Ventures

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Real 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 Real Ventures

Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Real — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.

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