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SGH Capital

Venture capital firm · Founded 2014 · Active in 2026

SGH Capital is a venture capital firm based in Luxembourg, founded in 2014. The page below shows 20 Power Law outcomes from SGH Capital's portfolio — 19 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 1 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).

Outcomes are concentrated in Fintech · Other B2B Software · Transportation; top portfolio geographies are USA · Canada. SGH ranks #417 in Global in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.

20 Power Law outcomes Power Law Ranking #417 · Global · 20 Power Law outcomes · Active 2026
Unicorns ↑ 27% 5y
19
Decacorns ↑ 25% 5y
5
Thoroughbreds ↑ 114% 5y
15
Featured in #417Power Law Investor Ranking · Global · 2026Top 3%
01 · Exits

SGH’s biggest exits.

SGH 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.

Shopify
IPO · 2015
Entered Series B+Now $128B
DoorDash
$39.0B IPO · 2020
Entered Series B+Now $67.6B
Guardant Health
$1.6B IPO · 2018
Entered Series B+Now $16.4B
Honey
$4.0B acquisition · 2019
Entered Series B+
ZUME
$2.2B acquisition · 2023
Entered Seed
Ouster
$1.9B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $2.2B
Bakkt
$2.1B IPO · 2021
Entered Series B+Now $450M
The RealReal
$1.7B IPO · 2019
Entered Series B+Now $1.4B
03 · Portfolio analysis

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

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

By countryCount
  1. USA19
  2. Canada1
By sectorCount
  1. Fintech7
  2. Other B2B Software3
  3. Transportation2
  4. eCommerce & Marketplaces2
  5. Health Tech & Medtech2
  6. Cybersecurity1
  7. Biotech & Life Sciences1
  8. Robotics1
  9. AI1
By stage enteredCount
  1. Series B+16
  2. Series A2
  3. Seed2
04 · Portfolio market map

SGH's 20 Power Law outcomes.

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

How does SGH stack up?

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

53 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 AngelList are the deepest single pipelines.

LocationCount
United States30
India5
Australia3
China2
Brazil2
Hong Kong1
Japan1
Iran1
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UniversityCount
Stanford University12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology4
Stanford University Graduate School of Business2
University of Kentucky2
University of Michigan-Dearborn2
Carnegie Mellon University2
University of Massachusetts Amherst2
Technological Institute of Monterrey1
The University of Queensland1
EDHEC Business School1
+15 more →
Origin companyCount
AngelList4
Microsoft3
Meta3
Alphabet | Google2
Zynga2
Illumina2
Palantir2
Quanergy2
Shutterstock1
Immutable1
+10 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 SGH.

Alexandre Azoulay
Alexandre Azoulay
Managing Partner
 Guillaume Deback
Guillaume Deback
Founding Partner
 Karine Arama
Karine Arama
Venture Partner
Sources: Dealroom desktop research, official firm profiles and public investor lists.

Market sentiment

What the market is saying about SGH Capital

An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about SGH 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 SGH Capital

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

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