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Scott Banister

Angel investor · Founded 2003 · Active in 2026

Scott Banister is an angel investor based in San Francisco, USA, founded in 2003. The page below shows 20 Power Law outcomes from Scott Banister's portfolio — 16 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Fintech · Other B2B Software; top portfolio geographies are USA. Scott Banister ranks #88 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

20 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #88 · Global · 20 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 14% 5y
16
Decacorns ↓ 25% 5y
3
Thoroughbreds ↑ 9% 5y
14
01 · Exits

Scott Banister’s biggest exits.

Scott Banister 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.

$82.0B IPO · 2019
Entered SeedNow $153B
IPO · 2002
Entered SeedNow $39.1B
$23.9B IPO · 2021
Entered SeedNow $28.4B
$1.8B IPO · 2020
Entered Series ANow $4.0B
$3.5B acquisition · 2025
Entered Series A
$2.6B acquisition · 2020
Entered Seed
$1.0B acquisition · 2021
Entered Seed
03 · Portfolio analysis

The 20 Scott Banister Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).

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

By countryCount
  1. USA20
By sectorCount
  1. eCommerce & Marketplaces5
  2. Fintech5
  3. Other B2B Software3
  4. Other2
  5. Cybersecurity1
  6. Transportation1
  7. AI1
  8. Food1
  9. Space1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+3
  2. Series A4
  3. Seed9
04 · Portfolio market map

Scott Banister's 20 Power Law outcomes.

Stage entered
Outcome tier
Region
Group by
20 of 20 Power Law outcomes
05 · Power Law comparison

How does Scott Banister stack up?

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

66 founders across the 20 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 States39
India11
China4
Germany3
Ukraine2
South Africa2
Mexico1
Poland1
Russia1
Canada1
+1 more →
UniversityCount
Stanford University6
Carnegie Mellon University5
Syracuse University3
University of Michigan3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology3
Berkeley3
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay2
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign2
Harvard University2
University of Michigan-Dearborn2
+21 more →
Origin companyCount
Alphabet | Google5
Uber2
Apple2
Yahoo!2
Nvidia1
Postmates1
Netscape1
Auspex Pharmaceuticals1
Akamai1
Intuitive Surgical1
+16 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 Scott Banister.

Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Scott Banister

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Scott Banister 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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