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Samsung Next

Corporate venture · Founded 2012 · Active in 2026

Samsung Next is a corporate venture based in USA, founded in 2012. The page below shows 26 Power Law outcomes from Samsung Next's portfolio — 22 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in AI · Fintech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA · Israel · Canada. Samsung Next ranks #406 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

26 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #406 · Global · 26 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 267% 5y
22
Decacorns → 5y
1
Thoroughbreds ↑ 150% 5y
6
01 · Exits

Samsung Next’s biggest exits.

Samsung Next 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.

$1.8B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $28.7B
$535M IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $2.8B
$1.3B acquisition · 2023
Entered Series B+
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 26 Samsung Next Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA18
  2. Israel2
  3. Canada2
  4. Switzerland1
  5. UK1
  6. Cayman Islands1
  7. Germany1
By sectorCount
  1. AI8
  2. Fintech6
  3. Other B2B Software3
  4. Cybersecurity3
  5. Health Tech & Medtech2
  6. Space1
  7. Robotics1
  8. Other1
  9. Marketing1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+16
  2. Series A5
  3. Seed2
Estimated holdings

Samsung Next’s biggest current holdings.

An estimate of Samsung Next’s largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 1 companies where Samsung Next is a named shareholder, worth about $52M in estimated equity value.

#CompanyEst. stakeValuationEst. value
  1. 1 AI21 LabsEnterprise Software · Unicorn 3.5% $1.5B $52M

Estimated value = Samsung Next’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Samsung Next also appears inside investor groups in Berachain, Branch, Liquid AI, OpenWeb, Redesign Health, Story Protocol, Verbit.ai, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →

04 · Portfolio market map

Samsung Next's 26 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
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05 · Power Law comparison

How does Samsung Next stack up?

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

42 founders across the 26 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 Alphabet | Google are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States20
Romania4
Greece3
Canada3
France3
South Korea2
Russia2
Iran2
Nigeria1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University Graduate School of Business6
University of Southern California4
Stanford University4
University of Oxford3
University of Cambridge2
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania2
Dartmouth College2
Cornell University2
Columbia Engineering2
University of Waterloo1
+7 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google9
Microsoft7
Meta5
Palantir5
Apple4
Amazon4
Abra2
Zynga2
LinkedIn2
Tableau2
+48 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 Samsung Next

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Samsung Next 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 Samsung Next

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

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